Department of Theatre
Christine Morris
Christine Morris teaches voice/speech and acting. Prior to joining the UNCG faculty in the fall of 2005, she was at Duke University for eleven years, where she taught acting, voice and speech, directed, and served as Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Theater Studies. Her background includes extensive training and experience in the work of Linklater, Lessac, and Roy Hart. Her work as a voice and dialect coach includes projects in theatre, dance, film, television and audio, and she has also worked privately with clients in the areas of business, law, and television journalism. A professional actress (member of AEA and SAG), she has performed with the New York Shakespeare Festival, The Public Theatre (under director Richard Foreman), the Asolo Theatre, Playmakers Repertory, and in many productions with the award-winning Chapel Hill based Archipelago Theatre. With Archipelago, she developed the solo Blue Roses , which was produced at Manbites Dog Theater in Durham NC, and was also produced at Profile Theatre Project in Portland, Oregon, and at the Tennessee Williams Center in Sewanee, Tennessee. Most recently, she originated the role of The Woman in Romulus Linney’s new one-woman play Silver River , which has been performed at Manbites Dog (premiere), Profile Theatre Project, in workshop at the Actors’ Studio in NYC, at Stoneleaf Theatre Festival, Appalachian State University, and The Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Last fall, she performed the play at the Horton Foote Festival of American Playwrights in Texas, where Linney was the honoree.Her research interests include solo performance, the use of polyphonic singing with actors, American playwrights Tennessee Williams and Romulus Linney, and Jacobean drama in performance.
She is a longtime member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, and was recently elected to the Board of Directors.
She holds a B.A. from UNCG and an M.F.A. from the University of Virginia.