Biography
Job Title: Academic Manager - School of Drama
Courses Taught: BA (Hons) Actor Musician
Specialisms: Rhythm, Musicality, Improvisation, Ensemble, Physical Theatre
Eilon Morris is a percussionist, actor, composer and author. He is a core member performance ensembles DUENDE, ICEBERG and OBRA Theatre Co, as well as having performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and IOU Theatre.
In 2017, Eilon published his first book, Rhythm in Acting and Performance: Embodied Approaches and Understandings, (Bloomsbury, Methuen Drama), building on his PhD completed in 2013 and Masters in Ensemble Physical Theatre in 2008, at the University of Huddersfield. In the last ten years Eilon has taught internationally at the DUENDE School of Ensemble Physical Theatre in Greece and India, as well as running masterclasses and workshops at universities and other institutions in Australia, Argentina, Canada, Denmark, France, Mexico, Netherlands the United Kingdom, including Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Rose Bruford College, University of Kent, University of Huddersfield, Universidad Nacional de las Artes Buenos Aires and ArtEZ.
Performance credits include, The Wicker Husband (Watermill Theatre), IBIDEM (OBRA), Separated in Birth (Zoe Katsilerou), Day of the Living (Royal Shakespeare Company), Lord of the Flies (BBC Radio Drama), These Trees are Made of Blood (Arcola, Southwark Playhouse), Gaudete (OBRA Theatre Co, Lowery), Shattering Man (Duende), and Rhein (Royal Festival Hall).
