Evangeline Morphos
Evangeline Morphos, Professor
Evangeline Morphos is the co-founder of e-guiders.com, a guide to on-line videos. She was a consulting producer of The Bedford Diaries, a television series which aired on the WB network (The Levinson/Fontana Company); and she has been an executive for development with Scott Rudin productions. She has produced over 20 Off-Broadway plays, include the long-running comedies The Food Chain by Nicky Silver, After-Play by Anne Meara and Blown Sideways Through Life by Claudia Shear. Most recently she produced The God of Hell, a new play by Sam Shepard. Among her other new productions include The Dog Problem, and Those the River Keeps by David Rabe, The Cryptogram by David Mamet and Aven’U Boys by Frank Puglies. Her work has won numerous Obie Awards, Drama Desk Awards. She has also produced work by many experimental artists including Obie-Award winning productions by Robert Wilson and Richard Foreman. She is the executive producer of The Dadshuttle, a film by Tom Donaghy.
She holds a B.A. from Wellesley College and an A.M. and Ph.D. in English from Harvard University. She has taught at Harvard University and Oxford University and was previously the Chairman of the Undergraduate Drama Department at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
She has been the Exectutive Director for a number of companies that develop new work, including Colonia Artistica di Civita, (a festival film and theatre in Italy), the Cherry Lane Alternative Mentor Project, Ensemble Studio Theater and the Blue Heron Festival.
As a consultant she has worked on a variety of projects involving theatre, film and television. She appeared regularly on New York Theater Review, which was broadcast nationally on PBS from 1994 to 1996. Her scholarly work includes articles on American and British theater, film, and narrative uses of the internet. She is the editor of Lee Strasberg’s A Dream of Passion, and has taught Method Acting in New York, Los Angeles and London.
Syllabus (PDF): Producing Across Media: Idea to Story - Morphos – Spring, 2010