{"id":373,"date":"2019-01-21T15:01:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T14:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.octopods.be\/?page_id=373"},"modified":"2019-02-21T16:20:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T15:20:11","slug":"christopher-morrison","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.octopods.be\/en\/christopher-morrison\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Morrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher is a multi-talented writer-director-actor who has worked on over 150 films, theatrical productions, and immersive entertainments all around the world. He\u2019s American but don\u2019t let that fool you\u2026 he\u2019s lived and worked in multiple countries and has a world-view that is expansive. His genre entertainments have been seen in over 15 countries and three continents. Working with everyone from Hollywood talents to backyard indie pioneers he\u2019s been instrumental in creating work for live audiences, film-goers, tv-viewers, and VR aficionados. He\u2019s groovy, he wants to lend you his groove for a while. Let\u2019s groove.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher has worked with and trained top Hollywood talents such as Emily Deschanel, Lindsey Lohan, Alex Reid, Tanya Saracho, Raul Castillo, Dan Folger, Keith David, Zakes Mokae, Diane Ladd, as well as rising pop stars Tyler Cole and Madison Rose. He has been a story editor and script consultant for Hollywood, \u201c&#8230;less than kind\u201d the award-winning short film he wrote and directed, premiered out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival and was distributed worldwide. He has written and directed 360 films as well. He has been commissioned for six feature length screenplays, television pilots, and plays alike. In his theatrical career he has worked at some of the largest and well-respected theatre companies (Cirque du Soleil, The Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Huntington Theatre Company). He performed with Cirque du Soleil for their first ever immersive environment called, \u201cThe Bar at the Edge of the Earth\u201d for Celebrity Cruise Lines. He ran Broken Buddha Productions for ten years exploring the intersection of theatre, dance, circus, martial-arts, gymnastics, stage-combat, and more, producing and directing five movement based pieces for that company. He is also an award-winning fight choreographer. Four of his plays have been produced in California; Chicago; and Melbourne, Australia. Morrison is a co-founder of Impact Theatre in Berkeley, California, which lasted 20 seasons. His directing has been called \u201cA brave move towards a different style of theatre,\u201d and Cirque du Soleil called him \u201cA huge asset to the creative process.\u201d His direction has been seen on both coasts of the States as well as Chicago. He has completed his first feature film as a writer\/director entitled \u2018The Bellwether\u2019 (the world\u2019s first female-lead solo film) which will be released in early 2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1392571\/?ref_=tt_ov_dr\">IMDB<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share\u00a0:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-373\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.octopods.be\/en\/christopher-morrison\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-373\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.octopods.be\/en\/christopher-morrison\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-373\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.octopods.be\/en\/christopher-morrison\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-373\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.octopods.be\/en\/christopher-morrison\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher is a multi-talented writer-director-actor who has worked on over 150 films, theatrical productions, and immersive&#8230; 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