EMER M MORRIS
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Profile
I am a Writer, Director and Cultural Worker. My practice is multidisciplinary: verbatim, sound design, music, participatory, site specific, community led. I collaborate with people with direct experience of the work’s issues, challenging injustice. My work is celebratory and platforms the experience of often excluded and/ or self mobilised communities. 

Education
2025- Certificate in Counselling Skills COSCA, Strathclyde University
2022 - Sound Production Cert level 1 Glasgow Academy of Music
2019 - Masters of Law in International Human Rights Law: 
Distinction, Queens University Belfast  : “Disrupting Narratives of Exclusion: The Human Rights Based Approach to Housing Justice”
2014 - First Class Honours in Drama BA, Queen Mary University of London , Outstanding Achievement award 2014 for  “No Place Like…” 
2008 - Certificate of Higher Education in Theatre Arts, East 15 Acting School, London
2006 -  A Levels Media Studies: A   Performing Arts (AVCE): AA, Sussex Downs College, East Sussex

 Professional Appointments
April 2025 - Associate Artist, Grenfell, Steve McQueen, The Chapter, Cardiff 
Jan 2024 - 2025:  Artistic Director A Play For Torry, Aberdeen
July 2024 - Lead Artist Whats the Story Torry? series, Torry
Jan 2024 - Consultant Shetland Community Mobilisations, Shetland- Uplift
Sept 2023 - Lead Artist for Young Fishers: Audio Stories - BBC & Miracle Theatre (UK)
March 2023 - Lead Artist for In Deep Water series- Oceana & Uplift,  Aberdeen
Sept 2022 - Dec 2023, Oceans and Climate Network Coordinator - Uplift
March 2022 - Lead Artist Guts Galore! Scottish Fisheries Museum
Jan 2022 - Lead Artist:  Tricky Hat’s Round Our Place Audio Journey - Glasgow Live
Nov 2021 - Assistant Director for Tricky Hat, Glasgow
OCT 2021- Writer Director of GUTS Live Radio Play at Camden People’s Theatre
Sep 2020 – Resident Artist & Cultural Worker at Limehouse Town Hall, London
Sep 2014– 2021   Co-Artistic Director of You Should See The Other Guy Theatre
Sep 2020 - 2024 Trustee for Creative Opportunities Youth Action, Mildmay, London 
June 2019 - Human Rights Organiser, Participation and Practice of Rights, Belfast, 
Sep 2015 - Jan 2021 Guest Lecturer at Rose Bruford, UCL, Queen Mary University
Feb 2020 – Creative Director at Sunflower Week with Yes Men, Belfast 
May 2015- Aug 18 Co-Creator of “Womb With A View” Immersive, various UK locations
June 2017-2018- Co Writer and Producer for “PLEASE HOLD”, CPT London
Nov 2015- May 2016 Lead Researcher, “Homelessness, Housing and Mental Health”, University of Leeds
 

Grants and Awards
2025  Creative Scotland  Open Fund For Individuals £50,000, A Play For Torry
2024  North East Scotland Climate Action Network grant, A Play For Torry
2024  Creative Scotland Open Fund For Individuals £20,000, A Play For Torry
2023  Shortlisted: GUTS Artist Development Residency at National Theatre Scotland
2021  Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice: Emer Morris 
2020  Arts Council England Emergency Grant: You Should See The Other Guy 
2018  Arts Council England Arts Project Grant £48,000 for Land of the Three Towers
2017  Unique Festival Area Award, Independent Festival Awards Womb with a View
2016  Arts Council England Arts Project Grant Land of the Three Towers, £15000
2016  Mamma Cash Project Grants, Land of the Three Towers, 
​2016  Arts Council England Arts Project Grant Please Hold £15,000

2014  Sylvia Perry Award for Outstanding Achievement, Queen Mary, No Place Like 

 
Theatre and Cultural Projects
2025  A Play For Torry, Aberdeen, (Writer & Artistic Director, Exec Producer)

2024  Young Fishers Podcast, Scotland and Cornwall (Lead Artist and Sound Design)

2023  Dear Norway Video - Shetland, (Writer & Creative Producer)

2023  Creative Campaigning Workshop Series Shetland & Aberdeen (Lead Artist)

2022  Round Our Place Immersive Audio Journey, Glasgow (Sound Artist)

2021  GUTS live radio play at Camden People’s Theatre (Writer & Director)

2021  The Journey Following the Fish Workers Podcast (Creator & Producer)

2021  4 Sisters Leadership Project, Limehouse Town Hall

2020 Sunflower Week, with irenowned ArtistsThe Yes Men& Build Homes Now  Campaign,MAC Belfast(LeadArtist)                                                                                               

2019  Abomination of a Consultation Video, Belfast (Creative Producer & Director)

2019  Asylum Monologues  Accidental Theatre & Human Rights Consort Trust, Belfast,.              

2018   Land of The Three Towers: Volume 2, London Tour, Brighton  (Writer& Director)
2017   Womb With a View, Shambala Festival, Nest   (Writer Director)                                                                      
2017   Please Hold Camden Peoples’ Theatre, London   (Writer Director)          

2016   Land of the Three Towers: Volume 1, London Tour   (Writer Director)                                  
 2015   Real Estates: Focus E15 Week, Peer Gallery, Hoxton, London   
2014   Deprescos Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Writer Director) 

2014   Land of the Three Towers Battersea Arts Centre, London (Writer Director) 

2014   No Place Like at Queen Mary University

2013   A Riot Act: Mums Go To Iceland (Richmix)

2010   Macbeth, Jodhpur Fort, Rajasthan, India 

 Publications
2021 “Land of the Three Towers” in Radical Housing, Art, Struggle and Care” Institute of Network Cultures 

2016 “Homelessness, Housing and Mental Health”, University of Leeds


Residencies 
2025  Writing Residency with Scottish Sculpture Workshop 
2024 Residency with Jana Sanskriti Centre for Theatre of The Oppressed, Bengal, India.
2022  Artist in Residence for Tricky Hat in Creative Communities: Partick,Glasgow (Sound)
2021  Artist Resident at Limehouse Town Hall, Tower Hamlets, London. 
2020  You Should See The Other Guy Residency at Raven Row Art Gallery, London


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  • Home
  • About
  • Theatre
    • A PLAY FOR TORRY
    • You Should See The Other Guy
    • Land of The Three Towers
    • LOTTT VOL II
    • GUTS
    • A Riot Act ( Mums go to Iceland)
    • DEPRESCOS
    • AND WHAT
    • No Place Like
    • Unruly Usherettes
  • Sound
    • Young Fishers Podcast
    • Round Our Place
    • Following the Fish Workers
    • GUTS AUDIO
  • Cultural Strategy
  • Producer
    • Womb With a View
    • Build Homes Now : Sunflower Week
    • Focus E15 / REAL ESTATES/ FUGITIVE IMAGES/ PEER
    • We Could Be Here
  • CV
  • Contact
  • Film
    • Blog