About

John Morton likes to act and write and make things.

He usually runs between stuff on the stage and stuff on the screen. Devious Theatre and Mycrofilms are two of the companies he does this running with.

For the stage he has written Heart Shaped Vinyl, Smitten, Scratcher and the short plays Tenterhooks and Denouement. He also co-wrote the PPI Award winning radio adaptation of HG Well’s The War Of The Worlds. He is currently working with Connie Walsh on a new stage version of Night Of The Living Dead and is partaking in Fishamble’s New Play Clinic with Punctured.

For the screen, he’s written Lily’s Bad Day, Eliza Mayflower, Suckers and The Usurpers for Young Irish Film Makers. Hot Water Bottle is his first short film. It is currently doing the rounds, looking for places to screen it.

He is a member of the Irish Playwright and Screenwriters Guild.

He has also co-written and directed the online comic detective serial Vultures in which he plays myopic detective Jim Vultour.

In the theatre he has acted for Barnstorm Theatre Company, Graffitti Theatre Company, Talking Birds, Pandora Theatre, Sheer Tantrum and Devious Theatre. Film work includes Once Upon A Time In The Glorious Revolution, Old Fangs, Attic, The Suitors, Suckers, First Confession and various other bits and bobs.

There are other things he’s done but you can ask him.  Writing about John Morton in the third person is a necessary evil.