Morgan Barbour

SHE/HER
Morgan Barbour is an American award-winning movement director, circus artist, and writer based in London. Her work has been produced and published throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Republic of Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. Her work is fiercely feminist, with both her academic and artistic pursuits exploring the possibilities and potentialities of the human body and the deconstruction and examination of the female body as sexual when removed from the male gaze. She is a former lecturer at the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), a visiting special lecturer at Central St Martins, and a flying trapeze instructor at High Fly Trapeze. She draws strong inspiration from her background as a circus performer and collaborates frequently with artists across multiple mediums, including ongoing work with British sculptor David Williams-Ellis. She has been a vocal advocate for victims of sexual and domestic abuse and had publicly criticised the legal system's handling of such cases in the United States, United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland. Her European debut play, By the Bi, was recognised by Amnesty International UK as a production inspiring audiences to think about human rights in 2015.

Credits

THEATRE
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR, Mars&Beyond, The October!Collective, OXO Bargehouse, one month, 2020
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR, Questions of Terrorism and Repression, Manuel Bau, Lion and Unicorn Theatre, 2 weeks, 2017
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR, The Serpent, Wesley Broulik, Nebraska Repertory Theatre, 6 weeks, 2017
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR, The Winter’s Tale, Elizabeth Carlson-Guerin, Saratoga Shakespeare Company, 2 weeks, 2017
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Wesley Broulik, Saratoga Shakespeare Company, 3 weeks, 2017
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR, By the Bi, Caroline Downs, Blazing Change Players, 10 weeks (touring), 2015

FILM/TV
Obsolete | The October!collective — 2020
How to Have a Better Orgasm | Channel 5 — 2020
61 Beehive St | Helena Bonastre — 2018
12:01 | Francesca Fielding — 2016
Instinct | Marianna Oliviera — 2016

Training

MFA Movement: Directing & Teaching (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)