Tom Morris is making his HGO debut as the original director of Breaking the Waves. Morris was the artistic director of Battersea Arts Centre from 1995 to 2004, and is currently both associate director at the National Theatre and artistic director of Bristol Old Vic. At Bristol Old Vic, his works include Swallows and Amazons, Juliet and Her Romeo, Does My Society Look Big in This? and A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Handspring Puppet Company. Morris also conceived and directed two landmark festivals during his time at Bristol Old Vic: Bristol Proms with Watershed Bristol and Universal Music Arts and Entertainment, and Bristol Jam: Britain’s first festival of improvisation. Among his National Theatre credits are Every Good Boy Deserves Favour; War Horse, for which he won a 2011 Tony Award for Best Director; the stage adaptation of A Matter of Life and Death; and Coram Boy. Other productions include The Meaning of Zong at the Barbican and Bristol Old Vic; The Death of Klinghoffer for English National Opera and the Metropolitan Opera; Disembodied, Newsnight: The Opera, Kombat Opera Klubneit, Home, Passions, Unsung, To the Island with the Goose, Macbeth, Oedipus the King, Othello Music, Trio, Jerry Springer: The Opera (as producer), Oogly Boogly (devised and directed), and All That Fall at Battersea Arts Centre. With Carl Heap, Morris co-wrote the World Cup Final 1966, Jason and the Argonauts, and Ben Hur, all for Battersea Arts Centre. He also co-wrote Nights at the Circus and The Wooden Frock with Emma Rice for Kneehigh Theatre.