Jordan Christopher Morris

Jordan Christopher Morris was born in London, Ontario, Canada to parents Margo and Michael and older sister Morgan.He was a self-described "odd" kid who often kept to himself and passed time reading comics and building his own toys, props and costumes. He first gained local media notoriety by building marionettes that he sold at local craft shows and he also appeared in TV commercials for the now defunct "Savette" chain of stores. All through his school years he appeared in stage productions and kept developing his skills for costume, prop and set fabrication.Following school he took work at the local Toys R Us and enjoyed the toy industry so much he eventually opened his own small chain of toy stores known as "Cool Toys". It was during this 5 year period from 1995 to 2000 that he employed a number of members of the local theatre community and became familiar with it's people and projects. But it wasn't until years later, after Cool Toys closed and he had spent almost a decade in the automotive industry selling cars that he actually began participating in theatre projects.(* Jordan often says that it was during his days as a used car salesman that he really honed his skills as an actor)He was originally asked to join his first stage production by the partner of a former employee of Cool Toys and was boldly given the lead role in a production of Clive Barker's "History of The Devil". The Director had Jordan in mind for years, during his time as owner of the toy stores and felt he had "a good look" for it. Fortunately, Jordan had some skills as well. It was an extremely physical and challenging 3 hour show and he was immediately placed in demand and seen as exciting "new blood" for the local scene. It wasn't long before he had developed a knack for playing villainous or dark, brooding characters, but eventually got a chance to perform complex dramatic leads and even comedic roles even performing with local improv comedy group "Fully Insured".Jordan began taking a real interest in every aspect of theatre and quickly became well known for his design work. First as a costume designer, then for props and eventually set and full production design.He also directed a number of shows including a particularly successful run of "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot" which earned public and critical acclaim. He has been awarded several local theatre awards and dozens of nominations for his work as an actor, director, designer and producer of theatre projects.One of his final theatre projects was as producer for Theatre maven Bernard Hopkins, former Artistic Director of London's Grand Theatre and teacher at The Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario. It was after seeing Jordan's production of "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot" that Mr. Hopkins approached Jordan to produce and design a production of "The Duchess of Malfi". Mr. Hopkins came out of retirement at the request of a local theatre company who wanted to add a more challenging show to their season and so it was. "Malfi" is considered one of the darkest, most challenging and difficult scripts to produce, and it became the most difficult achievement in Jordan's career to that point.Since then Jordan has left the theatre community to concentrate on film, and much like his theatrical career, he was first given opportunities as an actor, but quickly took on work as a designer as well. In his first indie feature, "Unearthly", he was cast as popular supporting character, "Marine" but eventually became production designer, building set pieces and many of the focal props for the shoot.The following year he was given the title of Production Designer for the film "Tapped" but also ended up in front of the cameras again after an actor was unable to fulfill a small supporting role.Jordan hopes to find opportunities on both sides of the camera, but he's concentrating on the production side of film making and hopes to shoot a script of his own. His own production company, Sighthound Studio, is developing two scripts and hopes to begin pre-production of one in the near future. Show less «