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Zach Morris
Zach Morris works in a variety of media that includes contemporary dance, site-specific performance, film, visual art, and large-scale installations. He is interested creating projects that explore themes and relationships that illuminate the broader patterns of the human experience. Zach is fascinated by colliding dream-like, archetypal images with the pedestrian, highly personal realities of everyday life in hopes of creating juxtapositions and metaphors that resonate on a fundamental, intuitive level and allow us access to more elusive but equally potent ways of understanding ourselves and our world. Critics have described his work as "visually stunning", "wickedly clever", and "hauntingly melancholy." Others have said, "there is no escaping the feeling that you have been doing drugs for the past hour. Good drugs."

Zach is a choreographer, director, author, visual artist, and filmmaker. His work has been seen internationally, at several theaters around the US and at numerous venues in New York City including: Danspace Project, the South Street Seaport as part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Sitelines Series, Dance Theater Workshop, La Mama ETC, University Settlement/ The New York Fringe Festival, Dixon Place, the Williamsburg Art Nexus, and The Merce Cunningham Studio. He is the recipient of a New York Dance and Performance (BESSIE) Award for Creation/Choreography, the Henry Boettcher Award for Excellence in Directing, the NYC Fringe Fest Award for Excellence in Choreography, and has been granted residencies or commissions from Danspace Project, The Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation, Dance Theater Workshop, Topaz Arts, La Mama, LMCC, the Swarthmore Project, Epiphany Theatre Company, and others.

Zach is Co-Director of Third Rail Projects and organizer and moderator of the NYC Dance Film Lab. He has also served as the Co-Creator and Co-Director of the Westbeth New Works Program; the National and International Programs Associate at Dance Theater Workshop; the Bartender at a number of questionable establishments; and most recently as the Dance Coordinator at LEVELS, a teen-center in Long Island. Zach has a BFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University.