Jim Morris (playwright)

James Vincent Morris (born 1953, Birkenhead, Cheshire) is an English playwright associated with social realism.

Career

He was voted Most Promising Playwright of 1981 by The Financial Times and The Morning Star for his first stage play Blood On The Dole which was performed at The Liverpool Playhouse in 1981 where he was resident playwright.[1] He also co-founded Liverpool Lunchtime Theatre (LLt)[2] in 1982 with three other writers - Paul Goetzee, Bruce Birchall and Denis Wainwright.

His first stage play, Blood On The Dole was later made into a Television Film in 1994 and was broadcast on Channel 4.[3] It was directed by Pip Broughton and produced by Alan Bleasdale as part of ‘Alan Bleasdale Presents’. Starring Stephen Walters and Suzanne Maddock; it told the story of two working class Merseyside school leavers and their struggles in facing a life of unemployment and social deprivation.

Stage Plays

Film and Television

Radio Plays

Other works

References

Further reading


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