John-Andrew Morrison most recently won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for A STRANGE LOOP. At the time of the shutdown he was appearing in BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY, for which he was named an honoree for OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY at the 2020 Outer Critics Circle Awards. Credits include: BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY (Keen Company), A CHRISTMAS CAROL: A GHOST STORY OF CHRISTMAS (Hartford Stage), A STRANGE LOOP (Playwrights Horizons), MARLEY (Baltimore Center Stage), THE BLACKS: A CLOWN SHOW (Classical Theatre of Harlem/CSC Theatre) & THE TOOTH OF CRIME (La Mama). TRAINING: MFA, University of California, San Diego; BA, Brandeis University.
Recent Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Award winner John-Andrew Morrison joins me to speak about an unexpected encore at DREAMGIRLS on Broadway, spending too much time in the theater department as a pre-law major at Brandeis University, what led to his graduate studies at the University of California, San Diego, a disastrous showcase season, important advice from the now artistic director of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Maria Manuela Goyanes, corporate jobs, and what led to a pivot in his career that made way for the developmental process of A STRANGE LOOP, & what he’s most looking forward to about returning to the piece when it’s safe to be making theater again.
Recommended viewing: https://youtu.be/ZDLCvVBUBTM