Grace Morgan

pronoun:she/her

My name is Grace Morgan I am a Director and Theatre Maker. I graduated from Trinity College in 2018 with First Class Honours in English and Drama. For the last couple of years, I have worked consistently to hone my skills as a Director and Maker. I have done this through presenting my own work and working as an Assistant Director with leading contemporary companies such as Pan Pan and Dead Centre to both carve out a distinct artistic voice and identity and to build my artistic profile in the Irish theatre industry.

As a director, I am passionate about working with new writing, specifically writing that places the female experience at its core. Within this framework of female perspectives, I am also interested in collaborating on projects that raise awareness on social issues such as WHERE ARE YOU FROM? the piece I co - directed alongside writer Choy - Ping Clarke Ng about their experience growing up in Ireland as half Irish, half Hong Kong Chinese. SUN BEAR, a work in progress I directed in this year’s Smock Alley's Scene and Heard Festival (Dublin) by writer Sarah Richardson was another personal and socially engaged piece. It aimed to raise awareness about emotionally manipulative relationships in exploring the complexities of coping with the aftermath of one. My work directing new writing about the female experience is something that I believe has become an integral part of my identity as an emerging director.

As a maker and director, I am interested in European contemporary practices and aesthetics with a strong emphasis on image based work. I am motivated by experimental work that challenges form and provides new and innovative ways of storytelling. I am particularly drawn to canonical works and how they can be reimagined specifically from a female perspective and exploring their relationship with contemporary audiences.

Collaboration and creating space for open dialogue are central to my process. I prioritize creating a safe space for all of my collaborators in which they can perform at their best and most creative, especially as some of the work I am involved in can have personal resonances for my collaborators. This process is particularly prevalent in my work with my two co - founders of our company tasteinyourmouth. Our work is devised meaning that every member of the group has agency over the making of the piece. In my work the audience is central to my creative process. By opening my rehearsal room to test audiences throughout the rehearsal period I create a dialogue with spectators. This collaborative approach ensures the audience are integrated in the entire process and influence the final piece. In all aspects of my work, I am interested in exploring the uncanny and taking recognisable moments from everyday life, whether this be action or text, and altering them to create moments of dissonance. I aim to make work that is unconcerned with providing audiences with answers, but instead seeks to provoke questions.

Credits

Assistant Director/THE FIRST BAD MAN BY MIRANDA JULY/Dublin Theatre Festival plus Irish National Tour / 10 performances/ 2021and 2022
Director/NARCISSUS/Chiswick Playhouse London/6 performances/2022
Assistant Director/ TO BE A MACHINE/CENTQUATRE-PARIS/ 5 performances/2021
Director/NARCISSUS/ Smock Alley Theatre as part of Dublin Fringe Festival/ 6 performances/2021
Assistant Director/ TO BE A MACHINE/ Theatre de lieges/ 5 performances/2020
Director /b(l)oom/ The New Theatre, Dublin / January 2020/ One Week
Director/ SUN BEAR / Smock Alley Scene and Heard Festival / February 2020 / 2 performances
Co - Director / Where are you from?/ The Peacock Theatre, Dublin / August 2019/ 2 Performances
Director/ Waterford Crystal / Smock Alley Scene and Heard Festival/ February 2019 / 2 performances
Director/Maker / After Your Ass/ Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, December 2018/ One performance
Assistant Director/ Endgame by Samuel Beckett/ Project Arts Centre, Dublin 2019/one week
Assistant Director/Hamnet, a Dead Centre production / Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York / 2019 / one week.
Assistant Director/Pasolini's Salo Redubbed / The Peacock Theatre, Dublin, Dublin Theatre Festival / 2019 /One week
Assistant Director / ELIZA's Adventures in the Uncanny Valley, A Pan Pan Production/ The Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin, Dublin Theatre Festival/2018/ one week

Training

BA Hons First Class Honours, English and Drama, Trinity College, Dublin.