Profile
Anna Morrissey
Anna works as a movement director, choreographer and intimacy director across theatre, opera and film. She studied Social Anthropology at Christ's College, Cambridge, before training in dance and movement at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She founded the Royal Shakespeare Company's inaugural movement department and was Artist in Residence for Historic Royal Palaces. She has contributed to large-scale cultural events including the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony, We Are Here and Beyond Deepening Shadows for 14–18 NOW.
Credits for the Donmar include: Juniper Blood and The Trials.
Other theatre credits include: London Tide; Translations; Middle; ANNA (National Theatre); Emilia, Olivier Award-winning production (Shakespeare's Globe; West End); Mother Courage; Swive (Shakespeare's Globe); Antony and Cleopatra; The Winter's Tale (Royal Shakespeare Company/BBC Four); 1536 (Almeida Theatre; West End); Imperium; Queen Anne (West End); Richard III (Almeida Theatre); King Charles III (Almeida Theatre; West End); Tosca; Rigoletto; Jephtha; Last Days; Die Walküre; The Turn of the Screw (Royal Ballet & Opera); Amadigi (Garsington Opera); Macbeth; Salome (Northern Ireland Opera/Welsh National Opera); The Flying Dutchman; Noye's Fludde (Northern Ireland Opera); Orpheus in the Underworld (Scottish Opera); Manon Lescaut; The Barber of Seville (Opera Holland Park); Hansel and Gretel (Opera North).
Film and television credits include: Last Days; Wildcat; The Midwich Cuckoos.