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Andrew Morton

ANDREW MORTON

  
Nationality:    British
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Andrew Morton's plays include Bloom (a Dorothy Webb Prize winner at the 2013 Write Now Festival and winner of the 2013 Aurand Harris Memorial Playwriting Award), February (shortlisted for the 2007 Royal Court Young Writers Festival), Drive-Thru Nativity and the collaborative projects State of Emergency and EMBERS: The Flint Fires Verbatim Theatre Project. His plays have been developed or featured both nationally and internationally at the Write Now Festival (formally the Waldo M. and Grace C. Bonderman Playwriting for Youth National Symposium), the New England Theatre Conference, Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company, the Blue Elephant Theatre and the Hampstead Theatre. He has also held residencies with the Hooyong Performing Arts Centre/Nottle Theatre Company (South Korea) and CAMAC-Centre D'Art/Marnay Art Centre (Marnay-Sur-Seine, France). As a community artist and educator, Morton has worked with a wide range of organizations across the globe, including working alongside Salvation Army community counselors in Kenya to incorporate participatory theatre into their work with people living with HIV/AIDS. He has worked with several educational theatre companies in the UK including Streets Alive Theatre Company, the Albany theatre and Bigfoot Arts Education, and from 2008-2010 he served as education officer at the Blue Elephant Theatre where he ran the Young People's Theatre and the Speak Out! Forum Theatre project. Originally from the UK, Morton is currently based in Flint, Mich., where he teaches at the University of Michigan-Flint and is a frequent guest artist at Flint Youth Theatre. [Photo: Jessica Wilkowski]

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Andrew Morton's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Bloom         Drive-Thru Nativity         February

Bloom

Synopsis:
Bloom is a coming-of-age story about grief, gardening and growing up Following the death of his father, 15-year-old Daniel and his mother, Lisa, are forced to move to unfamiliar Flint, Michigan After a violent outburst at his new school, Daniel's social worker, Michelle, suggests he spend a week working with her father, Bobby - an urban gardener of several abandoned lots in the middle of the city A week soon turns into a few months, and as the two men spend the summer tending the gardens, they begin to plant some much-needed hope in a neighborhood plagued by blight And in so doing, they help each other heal some old wounds

Notes:
a Dorothy Webb Prize winner at the 2013 Write Now Festival and winner of the 2013 Aurand Harris Memorial Playwriting Award

1st Produced:
Flint Youth Theatre, Mi     09 May 2014

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Genre:
drama comedy 105 min

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Drive-Thru Nativity

Synopsis:
Burgers. French-fries. Milkshakes. Baby Jesus? A combination of out of work actors and zealous Christians gather in the parking lot of a Mega Church to tell the greatest story ever told in the way Americans like best: fast and convenient. Are they revolutionary, or seriously misguided? Drive-Thru Nativity asks whether there are some things worth getting out of your car for.

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55 min Christmas Play

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February

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shortlisted for the 2007 Royal Court Young Writers Festival

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