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Andrew Morton is an award-winning playwright and theatre-maker who creates socially engaged theatre with and for vulnerable populations.
Selected works include Bloom (a winner at the 2013 Write Now Festival and winner of the 2013 Aurand Harris Memorial Playwriting Award), February (shortlisted for the 2007 Royal Court Young Writers Festival), Drive-Thru Nativity, CARE, and the collaborative projects EMBERS: The Flint Fires Verbatim Theatre Project, State of Emergency and The Most [Blank] City in America. His plays have been featured or produced nationally at the Write Now Festival, the New England Theatre Conference, and Flint Youth Theatre, and internationally at the Blue Elephant Theatre and the Hampstead Theatre in London. Andrew previously taught playwriting at the University of Michigan-Flint and served as the Region III Chair of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) National Playwriting Program from 2017 to 2020, after which he received the KCACTF Gold Medallion Award, one of the highest honors in theatre education.
Originally from the UK, Andrew has a master’s degree in cross-sectoral and community arts from Goldsmiths College-The University of London. While living in London he worked with several educational theatre companies and served as the education officer at the Blue Elephant Theatre, where he ran the Young People's Theatre and the Speak Out! Forum Theatre project.
Andrew is currently based in Detroit, where he is a program manager for TimeSlips, an award-winning international nonprofit that promotes creative engagement techniques for older adults and their caregivers. He also works as a teaching artist and facilitator with a variety of social service and arts organizations including University Musical Society at the University of Michigan, the Ennis Center for Children, and the Detroit Phoenix Center, and was recently named a 2020 Kresge Artist Fellow.
His current project, Sofa Stories, created with young people who have experienced homelessness, was presented in multiple spaces in Detroit in 2021. Short films and additional in-person performances of the project are currently in development.
His play Bloom is available for purchase and licensing through Dramatic Publishing, Inc.