ERIC MORRIS PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR STAGE 222 Danby Court Columbia SC w(803) c(803)

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1 ERIC MORRIS PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR STAGE 222 Danby Court Columbia SC w(803) c(803) CURRICULUM VITAE Recent Published Works Author, JACOB JUMP, a novel. Published by Story River Books and USC Press. Author, SUMMER GIVES OVER and ENNER SMITH, included in the Fall Lines Literary Journal, Vol 4. Published by The Jasper Project. Recepient of the Broad River Award for Prose. Author, 360 FEET, included in the Marked By The Water Compilation, published by The Jasper Project UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Faculty/Department of Theatre and Dance Production Manager/Design for USC Dance Program. - Instructor, Dance 476, Production Design for Dance. - Lighting Design for Dept of Theatre and Dance production of Tom Stoppard s Arcadia. - Departmental Committee Service. - Recepient of Instructor Professional Development Award and other special event funding. - USC Faculty representative to American College Dance Association. - Lighting Design and Production Coordination for USC Dance productions at Koger Center for the Arts, Drayton Hall, Township Auditorium, Francis Marion University, ACDA(faculty representative), etc., and other outreach events. - Lighting Design translation for archived designs such as Twyla Tharp s Eight Jelly Rolls(Jennifer Tipton), Lynne-Taylor-Corbett s Great Galloping Gottschalk(Bob Ross), Lila York s Celts(James Ingalls), and numerous Balanchine works(ronald Bates, Mark Stanley, etc.) - Design and Technical Event Management for USC Dance Gala Fundraiser. - Scenery/Lighting Design and Production Coordination for Wideman-Davis Dance Company, the Resident Dance Company of The Department of Theatre and Dance at University of South Carolina. - Adjudication Committee for USC Dance Student Choreography Showcase. - Production Coordinator for Youth America Grand Prix regional competition in Columbia, SC. - Design and Production Facilitation for SC Summer Dance Conservatory. - Judges Panel for USC Homecoming parade float competition. - Nomination for employer of the year LIGHTING DESIGN: Balanchine Trust: Walpurgisnacht, Tchaikovsky Pas De Deux, Agon, Who Cares, Stars and Stripes, Rubies, Serenade, Mozartiana, Scotch Symphony, Valse-Fantaisie, Allegro-Brillante, Raymonda Variations, Western Symphony, Herman Schmerman, In The Night, Swan Lake, Donizetti Variations, Emeralds, etc. Classical Ballets: Giselle, Coppelia, Black Swan Pas De Deux, Paquita, La Vivandiere, and numerous excerpts, etc. Faculty and Guest Artist works: Arcadia(Theatre Program), Albononi Pas/Gams Jam/Romantic Interlude/Piano Concerto #2,Carnival of Animals (Susan Anderson), Metastasis(Ivan Pulinkala), Oh Boy(Peter Powlus), February 14, 2012(Helen Pickett), Rainbow Repertory Etude(Donald McCayle), Compound/It s Getting Heavy/Let the Fools Stand in Line(Thaddeus Davis), Etta and James/Based on Images/Rock n my Soul(Wideman-Davis Dance), Gold Dusk(Nathan Trice), Celts(Lila York), Great Galloping Gottschalk(Lynne Taylor-Corbett), Eight Jelly Rolls, Deuce Coupe(Twyla Tharp), Viola Alone(Kevin O day), Twist/Thresholds(Alan Hineline), Bach Cello Suites(Luis Dominguez). Other work: USC Dance Conservatory, SC Festival of Dance, Embodied/We Know We Can Dance/Future Perfect(student choreography showcases), ACDA adjudicated entries at University of Florida/ NYC(Miller Theatre)/Middle Tennessee State University/Darton College/Emory University, Arts International Festival at Francis Marion University, Pioneer Days Festival at Oak Point Elementary School, Leadership Columbia at Township Auditorium.

2 USC cont. SET/LIGHT DESIGN: 2 If At First We Dream/Between You, Me and the Lamppost( ThaddeusDavis), Stout Breakdown/BackdoorParole/Occupy Chaos(Tanya-Wideman-Davis), Cinderella at the Bar(Celia Rowlson-Hall), Bosket Affair/Fragmentation/Balance/Voypas(Wideman-Davis Dance), Young Girls in Europe, Twelve Dancing Princesses/Peter and the Wolf(USC Dance Conservatory.) SOURCELIGHT LLC Owner/Design Indoor and outdoor low and line voltage lighting design and installation for home and business. Pro Bono lighting consultation and installation of community events, such as Red Cross of the Midlands Fundraiser, Nursery Road Elementary School, The Thomas Cooper Library and The President s House for USC Dance at University of South Carolina, etc WIDEMAN-DAVIS DANCE COMPANY Production Manager/Design Production Manager/Lighting and Scene Design for productions in NYC and South Carolina. Etta and James, Based on Images, Rock and my Soul, Canvas, Elida and Twenty Rising, Woman, We Hold These Truths, Ruptured Silence. SET/LIGHT DESIGNS: Balance, Bosket Affair, Fragmentation, Voypas COLUMBIA MUSIC FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION/CAROLINA BALLET Lighting Design Lighting Design and Production Coordination for performance seasons. Classical Ballet works such as Coppelia, Rome and Juliet, The Nutcracker, Giselle, etc LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Lighting Design Lighting Design for Night Out at the Oscars fundraising event, at Lexington Opera House DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM Lighting Design Lighting Design for Spring into Dance performance of Harlem 2.0, in St. Louis, MO LEXINGTON CENTER CORPORATION/RUPP ARENA Design/Technical Services Lighting Design and Large Event Technical Coordination. Alltech Corporate Event, Toyota, MLK Day Celebration, Jamfest, Kentucky Bar Association, Kentucky High School Athletic Association, etc /2009/2010/2016(and continuing as guest designer)lexington CHILDREN'S THEATRE Resident Designer, Technical Production Manager Lighting and Scenery Design, Technical Direction, Audio Design, Production Management, Charge Artist, Theatre Renovation Consultant SET/LIGHT DESIGNS: Duck for President, The Giver, Holes, Witness, Riddlin Child, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The Reluctant Dragon, Treasure Island, Ramona Quimby, Alice in Wonderland, The Velveteen Rabbit, Charlotte's Web, And a Tide Shall Cover the Earth, Most Valuable Player, Huck Finn, Red Badge of Courage, A Christmas Carol, Riddlin Child, Yellow Boat, Hansel and Gretel, The Secret Garden, Amazin Bone, Diary of Anne Frank, etc. Directors: Larry Snipes, Lauralyn Hungerford, Vivian Snipes, Drew Fracher, John McGlaughlin, Bill Case, Gay Hill, Ronald Schull, Jeremy Kisling LEXINGTON BALLET COMPANY Resident Designer, Production Manager Scenery and Lighting Design, Production Management Forever Tango, Viva Vivaldi, Three Preludes, Don Quixote, Rainbow Ridge, Coulant, Songs of Love, Raymonda Variations, Salome, Square One, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Carmen, Swan Lake, The Wall, etc. Directors: Luis Dominguez, Rosemary Miles, Frank Galvaz, Fu Xijun. Choreo: Luis Bravo, Luis Dominguez, Frank Galvaz, Keith Lee, Trey McIntyre, Alain Sharron, Sean Kelly, Babille Gandera, David Cesler, Karl Kaufman, Jill Eathorn Bahr, Vincent Falardo.

3 97/02 UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY Guest Designer/Instructor Scenery Design, Painting, In Class Teaching SCENERY DESIGN: A Little Night Music Director: Jim Rodgers /07 ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY Lighting Design, Guest Artist Workshop Lighting Design for Faculty Dance Concert, Invited Guest Artist for Portfolio Review and Demonstration 99-02/88-90 AUGUSTA BALLET COMPANY Lighting Designer/Production Manager Lighting Design, Production Management, Technical Direction, Scene Construction and Painting Hatfields and McCoys, Casablanca, Nutcracker, Dracula, Peter and the Wolf, Beauty and the Beast, Symphony 13, Hearth of Embers, Tilt, Red Wagon, Giselle, Beauty And The Beast, The Nutcracker, Repertories, etc. Directors: Peter Powlus, Zanne Colton, Ron Colton. Choreo: Peter Powlus, Duncan Noble, Tony Ferro, Tom Pazik, Jill Bahr, Ron Colton, Andrew Zuharsky. 01/03/07 GEORGETOWN COLLEGE Lighting Designer/Scenery Designer The Belinda Mason Story, The Nerd, Grease. Directors: Ed Smith, George Mcgee ASHLAWN HIGHLAND SUMMER OPERA FESTIVAL Resident Designer, TD, PM. Lighting and Scenery Design, Technical Director, Production Manager, Scene Construction and Painting SET/LIGHT DESIGNS: Don Giovanni, Don Pasquale, Carousel. Directors: Claudia Zahn, David Pfeiffer, William Farlow THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP/NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, DESIGN FELLOWSHIP. Lighting Fellow ASSISTING LIGHTS: A Streetcar Named Desire, BARRYMORE THEATRE, NYC. Lights: Kevin Rigdon Director: Gregory Mosher On The Open Road, GOODMAN THEATRE, Chicago, IL. Lights: Michael Philippi Director: Robert Falls A Slip of the Tongue, STEPPENWOLF THEATRE, Chicago, IL. Lights: Kevin Rigdon Director: Simon Stokes The Ice Wolf, DEPAUL UNIVERSITY THEATRE, Chicago, IL. Lights: Kevin Rigdon Director: Michael Sokoloff The Glass Menagerie, TRINITY REPERTORY, Providence, RI. Lights: Natasha Katz Director: Richard Jenkins Uncle Vanya, GREAT LAKES THEATRE FESTIVAL, Cleveland, OH. Lights: Tom Skelton Director: Gerald Freedman Tribute, PEARL LANG DANCE COMPANY, NYC. Lights: John McKernon Director: Pearl Lang OTHER WORK: The Christmas Show, RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, NYC. Lights: Ken Billington The Rose Quartet, CIRCLE REP, NYC. Lights: Dennis Parichy The Queen And The Rebels, CENTER STAGE, Baltimore, MD. Lights: Steven Strawbridge

4 THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL SUMMER PROGRAM Resident Designer/Instructor Production Design, Technical Direction, Faculty. LIGHT/SET DESIGNS: Pal Joey, Into The Woods, Nine No No Nannette, Smile, Olympus On My Mind, Jerry's Girls, Irving Berlin Revue, I'm Alright, The Interview, Agnes Of God, Fireworks, Suddenly Last Summer, Antigone, The Dining Room, Stagedoor, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's Ladies, Shallow End, A Day In The Life Of An Author, The Happy Journey. Directors: Joel Brehm, John Stanchniewicz, David Ganon, Patrick Kerr. ALSO: 24 SHOWCASES AUGUSTA OPERA Guest Designer/TD Lighting Design and Technical Direction. Production Management. Lucia Di Lammermoor, Carmen. Director: Francis Cullinan 1990 BACA DOWNTOWN, NYC Design Assistant ASSISTING LIGHTS/SETS: The Death Of The Last Black Man In The Whole Entire World, by Susan Lori-Parks. The premiere production. Director: Beth Schacter Lights: Brian McDevitt Sets: Sharon Sprague 1988 CHICAGO OPERA THEATRE Production/Design Assistant Orpheus And Eurydice, Don Pasquale, Of Mice And Men, Cinderella. Directors: Charles Nelson Reilly, Arthur Masella, David Gately, Rhoda Levin. Lights: Michael Philippi, Bob Christen AUGUSTA COLLEGE Guest Designer Wonderful Town, Whose Life Is It Anyways? Directors: Elanor Pruitt, Gene Muto THEATRE PROJECT Resident Designer/TD Producton Design, Technical Direction and Production Management Baltimore Dance Festival Man Act Directors: Simon Thorne, Philip MacKenzie. Thunder Thigh Revue Directors: Joyce Scott, Kay Lawal. And A Nightingale Sang, THE LYRIC THEATRE, Boston, MA. Director: Ron Ritchell Le Jue Du Robin Et Marion, ANONYMOUS, Quebec City. The Kathy And Mo Show Directors: Kathy Najimy, Mo Gaffney. La Pesteleria, TEATRO DEL SUR, Buenos Aires. Director: Alberto Felix Alberto 1986 MARYLAND ARTS FESTIVAL Designer The Lion In Winter, The Three Penny Opera, Blithe Spirit. Directors: Ron Wainscott, Richard Gillespie.

5 1986 GREATER AUGUSTA ARTS COUNCIL Designer/TD LIGHT/SET DESIGN: Oglethorpe, Augusta, GA/Goldaming, Surrey, England Director: Geof Pryssir 5 CONSULTANT WORK: COLUMBIA MUSIC FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION. Columbia, SC. Dimming/lighting upgrade RED CROSS OF THE MIDLANDS FUNDRAISER. Columbia, SC. Lighting design FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Lexington, KY. Lighting design, lighting system installation WOODSONGS OLD TYME RADIO HOUR. Lexington, KY. Lighting, Scenery design proposal for nationally syndicated radio show FAYETTE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Lexington, KY. Drapery restoration project planning for 50 county school theatres HAZARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE. Hazard, KY. Dimming/lighting installation. Drapery installation THE THOROUGHBRED CENTER/KEENELAND. Lexington, KY. Dimming/lighting installation LEXINGTON CHILDREN S THEATRE. Lexington, KY. Building renovation, theatre construction, systems installation RASCAL S COUNTRY. Augusta, GA Lighting design proposal. TEACHING UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Faculty. Columbia, SC TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY. Guest Lecturer. Lexington, KY. 02/03 BLUEGRASS THEATRE GUILD. Guest Lecturer, workshops. Frankfort, KY. 02/07 ILLINIOS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. Guest Lecturer. Bloomington, IL SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY. Guest Lecturer. Winchester, VA UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY. Guest Instructor. Lexington, KY THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL SUMMER PROGRAM. Summer Program Faculty. Lakeville, CT WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY. Guest Lecturer. Macomb, IL 1987 AUGUSTA COLLEGE. Guest Lecturer, workshops. Augusta, GA. OTHER WORK 1991 SECOND STAGE. NYC THE WOMEN S PROJECT. NYC NORTH CAROLINA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL. High Point, NC ALLIANCE THEATRE COMPANY. Atlanta, GA SUMMER MUSIC THEATRE/WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIV. Macomb, IL AUGUSTA COLLEGE. Augusta, GA. EDUCATION 1987 Master of Fine Arts: Design For Stage. WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY. Macomb, IL Bachelor of Arts: T.V. & Film Production/Languages and Literature. AUGUSTA COLLEGE. Augusta, GA. OTHER NOTES Author, JACOB JUMP, a novel. Published by Story River Books and USC Press. Author, SUMMER GIVES OVER and ENNER SMITH, included in the Fall Lines Literary Journal, Vol 4. Published by The Jasper Project. Recepient of the Broad River Award for Prose. Author, 360 FEET, included in the Marked By The Water Compilation, published by The Jasper Project. Contributing writer, Business Lexington, Centerline, Painter s Journal, Sandhill s Literary Journal, The Bell Ringer. Mary Ewing Theatre Scholarship. Western Illinios University. Member, United States Institute for Theatre Technology. Member, ASCAP, writer/performer(published music works).

6 CURRENT REFERENCES 6 University of South Carolina Susan Anderson/Director, Dance Program susanea@mailbox.sc.edu Thaddeus Davis/Faculty, Dance Program tldavis@mailbox.sc.edu Jim Hunter,, Department of Theatre and Dance hunterj@mailbox.sc.edu Other: John Whitehead Director Columbia Music Festival Association cmfa5678@aol.com Larry Snipes Peter Powlus Producing Director Free Lance Teacher/ Choreographer Lexington Children's Theatre Atlanta, Georgia (859) ext 229 (706) lsnipes@lctonstage.org peterpowlus@hotmail.com Bob Stoops John Holloway Director of Technical Services Lexington Center Corporation University of Kentucky (859) ext 3150 (859) bstoops@rupparena.com jholl2@uky.edu Curtis Trout George Mcgee Illinois Wesleyan University Georgetown College (309) (859) ctrout@titan.iwu.edu george_mcgee@georgetowncollege.edu William J. Pierson Luis Dominguez Director Shenandoah University Lexington Ballet (540) (859) pierson@adelphia.net L.dominguez@insightbb.com