“Working with Jon is exciting and interesting. We never knew what he would bring to the table from day to day.”
Jean Francoise Buchard, Cirque du Soleil
30 minute mocku-comedy episodic TV show
about 2 clueless mobile caterers in Los Angeles, the Killer from "I know what you did last summer", and the Armenian Mafia. Currently seeking funding for episodes.
69 Love Songs
A Theatrical Musical Review in Two Acts.
The Magnetic Fields, “Album of the Decade,” The 69 Love Songs, text by Charles Mee and Jon Morris, an Indy Rock Band and a bed of Roses.
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photo by holly mcdade
The Sound of Wind Water and Waves
A Living Installation
February 2007, “365 Days 365 Plays” Living Installation commissioned by the Bootleg Theatre in Los Angeles. Designed, Performed, and Installed by Jon Morris. Assisted by Will Watkins with Aerial Rigging by Airealistic.
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Ecstatic Apocalypse
June 23nd, 2007, 5 Collaborations, 45 artists, 1 day. A Living Installation Video Event in Los Angeles.
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Works in Progress
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A Living Performance Installation--a roofless 17’ X 17’ X 17’ four wall ‘home’ made of thousands of clothes in a prominent public plaza or park that houses a perfectly decorated studio apartment featuring eleven three-minute performances charting the loss of a woman’s home.
In NYC... On the first day of Summer, 2010, Central Park’s Great Lawn, a truss frame will be erected around a perfectly furnished studio apartment; magazines on the couch, bed made, table set for dinner…. In the Spring before arts organizations around the city and then at the structure will sell articles of clothing for $1 and articles of clothing with a recorded stories previously collected from homeless persons for $10. Purchased clothing is hung from vertical cables and attached to the horizontal truss of the structure, beginning to create walls which visitors may pass through at any point. Purchased clothing with recorded stories and headphones is hung from the corners of the structure and played on loop every day from Noon to Sunset. When 38,220 articles of clothing are sold(number of homeless persons in NYC) the apartment will be enclosed by clothing walls and free Nighttime performances will begin... • Read More •
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moon by daylight
Physical Theatre Dream-Work. An abstract expressionist female painter stuck between lives. A Hobo-Clown Guardian Angel a re-enacts her life(poorly). Performed in a black box with three walls of clothes. The audience enters through the wardrobe, through clothes hanging from ceiling, walls, and floor-- somewhat like a haunted house. When they come into the space they sit on one side of a large black box room. The other three walls are covered in clothes. Covered from floor to ceiling with no gaps. Solid walls of clothes. It should smell like an old attic or a closet that has been shut up for the winter and you are the first to open it for summer. Stage Right wall is covered in baby girl to teenage clothes, back wall is teenage to middle age clothes, Stage Left wall is middle age to old age clothes. HESITATION stands on 6 foot stilts back stage left watching the audience intently. The song Alice was singing is playing softly over the speakers... Inspired by Helen Frankenthaler, Autism, Bag Ladies and Near Death Experience.
ATOMIC CITY
An international interdisciplinary theatre collaboration between Jon Morris and Danish theatre company Terra Nova (www.t-nova.org) featuring award winning actors, dancers and musicians from Sweden, Germany, Denmark, and Guatemala. This world-premier tragic-comedy is inspired by the literary works of Haruki Murakami and Oak Ridge, TN, my birthplace and the birthplace of the Atomic Bomb.
A recipe for pie and one for destruction: On a patch of grass, accompanied by original live music, euro-crash dance, magical realism text, acrobatics, water guns, and a living wall, this tragic comedy unfolds. Atomic City’s world-premier opened LaMaMa ETC’s 47th season in the Annex theatre Sept. 11 - 28th, 2008. Performances in Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Los Angeles are pending.
