Joy Morris is an educator,filmmaker,writer and risk-taker.
For the past thirty years, Joy Morris has been a professional acting teacher sharing her unique process with thousands of students worldwide. She co-wrote and co-directed a film, THE NIGHT FO THE COYOTE. Her books on acting, For The Love Of It, is used in many schools across the country. It's also translated in Spanish and used in Latin America. My Little Black Book Of Acting, will be out this year.
In the early 70’s, Joy left her Southern roots, seeking to experience her life as she imagined it. She drove alone across country to Los Angeles. Not knowing anyone or the area, she pulled into a service station and asked the attendant, “Where’s a safe place to live?” The young man directed her to Woodland Hills. She moved in to an apt that day, sent for her two children and her adventures began.
For fifteen years while married to the renowned acting coach, Eric Morris, she trained and taught at the Morris Acting Studio in Hollywood. During this period she co-founded, The American New Theater. She conducts seminars in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, San Francisco, Washington, Chicago and most of the major cities across the states.
At the University Of Southern California, she taught techniques on how to work with actors including how to get what you need while at the same time being sensitive to the actor's exposure and vulnerability.
After moving to New York in the early nineties, Joy delved into a busy life of teaching. She opened her own studio where she taught acting classes and produced and directed over one hundred showcases for agents and casting directors. She also directed over twenty plays, including a one-act play of her own called, WHO’S GOT THE EDGE,a story about friends and competition. It played at The Madison Avenue Theater starring Rodney Rowland and Mark Mathieson.
In 1994 at her studio in New York, a young actor from Buenos Aires asked her to do a seminar in his country. The experience proved to be one of the best in her life and as a result she returns each year to teach hundreds of students in Buenos Aires. If you would like to know about Joy en Buenos Aires go to joybue.blogspot.com
The Morris technique takes its origins from the philosophy of the infamous Russian acting teacher and director, Konstantin Stanislavsky. Lee Strasberg brought the ideas to the states forming ‘The Group Theater’ in New York City.
Although Joy teaches a ‘method style’ of acting, her work is greatly influenced by the teachings of Dr. Carl Jung’s theories.
In her work she emphasizes the different archetypes in our personality and the truth of self-expression.
ACE
Affective, Creative, Expression
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