Based in West Yorkshire, Eilon Morris is a percussionist, composer, actor and educator, working throughout the UK and internationally. He is the Author of Rhythm in Acting and Performance (Methuen Drama 2017). Eilon is a Movement Coordinator and Senior Lecturer at Leeds Conservatoire, teaching modules on movement, devising and collaborative practices as well as coordinating MA placements. Recent performance projects include collaborating with choreographer Kim Brandstrup on Minotaur (Royal Opera House, Bath Theatre Royal), working with Zoe Katsilerou’s MOV Dance Theatre, and Rob Heaslip on Black & Wood, Man & Board, and Straw Boys.
In 2017, Eilon published his first book, Rhythm in Acting and Performance: Embodied Approaches and Understandings (Bloomsbury, Methuen Drama) and has had work published in journals including Stanislavski Studies and Total Theatre as well as chapters in Encountering Ensemble and Ritmicidades: Cuerpos en jira. [2015-2019]. In 2013, Eilon completed a PhD investigating the role of rhythm in actor training, at the University of Huddersfield, following on from a Masters in Ensemble Physical Theatre completed in 2008.
Eilon has worked as a core member of companies including OBRA Theatre Co, DUENDE Ensemble, and Iceberg Improvisation, Butterfly Club and the Quiddity Ensemble. He has also worked on productions including Day of the Living (Royal Shakespeare Company), Lord of the Flies (BBC Radio Drama), Minotaur (Royal Opera House), These Trees are Made of Blood (Southwark Playhouse and Arcola Theatre), Ibidem and Gaudete (OBRA), Decades (Leeds Playhouse), Le Voyage dans la Lune (BFI), Electric Field (IOU), Shattering Man (DUENDE), and Rhein (Royal Festival Hall), as well as touring and recording with music groups including Stems and Kelter.
In recent years Eilon has also taught and presented research at cultural and educational centers including Central School of Speech and Drama, Rose Bruford College, University of Kent (UK) the Duende School of Ensemble Physical Theatre (Greece, India), Au Brana Cultural Centre (France), Baratza Aretoa (Basque Country), Université Laval, Québec City (Canada), Taller de Investigación Teatral (Mexico) and Universidad Nacional de las Artes (Argentina).
