Malcolm Morrison

Professor of Theatre 


Email: morrison@hartford.edu

Biography: Malcolm Morrison, former dean of The Hartt  School of the University of Hartford and University Professor of  theatre, has had an extensive career nationally and internationally as a director and educator. His directing credits include work at Hartford Stage Company, Cleveland Playhouse, The Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, The  Alley Theatre in Houston, The Denver Center Theater Company, Dallas Theatre Centre, The Monomoy Theatre, and many other regional Theatre Companies. He was Artistic Director of The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival for ten years and has directed at the Utah Shakespearean Festival  and The Colarado Shakespeare Festival—where he won the Critics Circle Award as Best Director for his production of Shakespeare's  Loves Labours Lost.  Internationally, he has directed and taught in Australia, Russia, China, Austria, The Czech  Republic, Sweden, Malta, Jamaica, Singapore and other countries, including receiving an award for his work in international theatre in Paris, France.  Mr. Morrison is the author of two books Clear Speech and Classical Acting and edited Voice and Speech in the Theatre.  Formerly he was dean at North Carolina School of the Arts, Director of the National Theatre Conservatory in Denver, Head of Theatre and Dance at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.  Mr. Morrison has served on national and regional committees for the arts.