Christopher Morris

January 03, 2024

Christopher is an actor, playwright and director and the artistic director of the Toronto-based theatre company Human Cargo. His most recent play tremblements premiered at Montréal’s ESPACE GO in November/2023, a French language collaboration between Human Cargo and Québécois theatre artists. The Runner (premiere: Theatre Passe Muraille, Tour: Socrates Project/Hamilton, Grand Theatre/London, Tarragon Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Magnus Theatre, Thousand Islands Playhouse); Our Beautiful Sons (Blyth Festival); The Road to Paradise (co-playwright with Jonathan Garfinkel – Human Cargo, Crow’s Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times); Night (Human Cargo, premiered at the National Arts Centre, toured nationally and internationally). As an actor, Christopher has with Soulpepper, Necessary Angel, Canadian Stage, The Stratford Festival and the National Arts Centre, to name a few.

Upcoming – Co-creator of Mother: an Annie Pootoogook VR experience, an animated/live-action Film about Inuk artist Annie Pootoogook (a collaboration with Inuk performers and Montréal’s Transversal, Bon Jam Animation, and Mirari), and Production dramaturg on The China Project, a Human Cargo collaboration with Chinese theatre artists.