Virginia Morris
(co-producer)

a Harvard Graduate, first studied acting and directing with Robert Chapman at the Loeb Theater in Cambridge, Mass. She then studied under Sanford Meisner and William Esper at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and with Paul Sills in Chicago. She performed regionally at theatres in Cleveland, Seattle, Alaska, New York and Chicago. After spending three summers acting at The Sundance Institute Playwright’s Lab in Utah, she moved to Los Angeles and, with Didi Conn, Peter Hay and Ethan Phillips, helped form FirstStage in Hollywood where she has been acting and directing for twenty years.
On film, she has appeared in Switch, Shocker, The Boost, Species, Bonfire of the Vanities, …and The Earth Did Not Swallow Him, The Facts Of Life, Zoe, and most recently Yvette Freeman’s Remember. Television work includes Norma and Marilyn, Skates, Donato and Daughter, A Different Affair, Not My Kid, the mini-series Intruders and Lucky Chances, the pilots of ER, The Flash, Murphy’s Law, Making Out, and episodes of various series such as Hill Street Blues, Cracker, Dharma and Greg and ER. She was nominated for an ADA award for her performance as Timothea in Sea Marks at the Raven Playhouse, and for her direction of Mimi’s Guide at the Fremont Center Theatre. She won a Drama-Logue for directing Adam and Eva Marie at Actors Art Theatre.

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