Joy Morris is an educator/filmmaker/writer and risk taker. She’s worked as a professional acting teacher for over twenty years. She co-wrote and co-directed a film, ‘THE NIGHT OF THE COYOTE.” Her book on acting, For The Love Of It, is used in many schools across the country. Also translated in Spanish, it is used in Latin America. Her new book, My Little Black Book Of Acting, is in the process of being published.
In the early 70’s, Joy left her Southern roots, seeking to experience her life as she imagined it. She drove alone across country to Los Angeles. Not knowing anyone or the area, she pulled into a service station and asked the attendant, “Where’s a safe place to live?” The young man directed her to Woodland Hills. She moved in to an apt that day, and her adventures began.
She met and married the renowned acting coach, Eric Morris, where she trained and taught at his Acting Studio in Hollywood for fifteen years. During this period she co-founded, The American New Theater. She conducts seminars in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, San Francisco, Washington, Chicago and most of the major cities across the states.
After moving to New York in the early nineties, Joy delved into a busy life of teaching. She opened her own studio on Eight Avenue where she taught acting classes, produced and directed over one hundred showcases for agents and casting directors. She also directed over twenty plays, including a one-act play of her own called, WHO’S GOT THE EDGE, a story about friends and competition. It played at The Madison Avenue Theater starring Rodney Rowland and Mark Matheison.
In 1994 at her studio in New York, a young actor from Buenos Aires asked her to do a seminar in his country. The experience proved to be one of the best in her life and as a result she returns each year to teach hundreds of students in Buenos Aires.
