Leora Morris is an award-winning director and currently an Assistant Professor of Acting and Directing in the Department of Theatre & Film at the University of British Columbia. Prior to joining UBC, Leora was the Yale Directing Fellow and Resident Artist in Education at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, where she supported the programming, development, and producing of new work for young audiences.
Leora will be working with WeeFestival on the 2021 Symposium and with our commissioning and development program.
“Making my first show for babies was a revelation – a humbling, delightful, and energizing process. I witnessed the tremendous impact of this work on babies, their caregivers, families, and whole communities – and simultaneously experienced my own sense of childlike wonder in artistic creation get reinvigorated. Having now been exposed to (and blown away by) world-class international artists who are thought leaders in this field, I am thrilled to partner with Canada’s foremost thought leader in performance for early years – the wizardess Lynda Hill – and to be supporting WeeFestival’s amazing work. The WeeFestival is built on the idea that our youngest citizens – and indeed, all people – deserve to participate in culture in a way that honours them, and I am so inspired by the productions the Festival is producing, as well as the conversations it is starting among artists and scholars.”