Kerry Morrigan

Kerry Morrigan has spent 13 years as an actor, writer, director, producer and trainer with Tricklock Company and is a co-founder of the resident company. Throughout the years she has served as Producing Director, Associate Artistic Director, and Tour manager. She has also served as artist liaison, co-producer, box office manager, and web master for Tricklock’s acclaimed Revolutions International Theatre Festival which has produced the original work of local, national, and international artists every January since 2001. She recently collaborated with Futur3 of Cologne, Germany, on their acclaimed site specific show CityBeats which is created anew based on the community and environment it is placed in. CityBeats: Albuquerque premiered in the 2007 Revolutions Festival.

Kerry’s theatre training includes residencies/classes with Mac Wellman, Double Edge Theatre of Massachusetts, Leonardo Shapiro of NYC’s Shaliko Company, Daniel Stein of Dell’Arte School of Physical Theatre, and intensives with Gardzienice Theatre Association of Poland, Anne Bogart and SITI Co., Lee Worley of the Open Theatre. Kerry’s more eclectic training includes Static Aerial Trapeze with Circus Contraption of Seattle, WA, Techniques of Samaveda Chanting with Samaveda Elders at the Mysteries and Initiations Festival in Krakow, Poland, and voice and song with Mariana Sadovska of the Ukraine.

Kerry’s notable roles include May in Shepard’s Fool For Love, Mina in Mac Wellman’s Dracula, Lady Macbett in Ionesco’s Macbett, Jean Harlow in Michael McClure’s The Beard, Bishop in Nicky Silver’s Fat Men in Skirts, Nina in The Seagull, June in Marisol, Cybil in Silver’s The Altruists, and C in Sara Kane’s Crave which played in New Mexico as well as at the Prague Quadrennial in 2004. Film credists include Elvis Has Left the Building, Dir. Joel Zwick, and several independent films including Signs of Life and Looking for Mexicans, both in 2003.

Kerry was honored to be the first American performer to participate in the Masrahid Festival - an Arabic Solo Performance Festival in Acco, Israel, with her original aerial solo show Death’s Door in July of 2004. She also managed and performed in Tricklock’s 2 International tours of The Glorious and Bloodthirsty Billy the Kid…to Chicago, Poland, Belgrade, Germany, Edinburgh, and Los Angeles where it was hailed as Critic’s Choice in the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, and Backstage West.