About me.

Jess Morgan is a writer, musician and theatremaker based in Norwich making work which has a focus on climate and community.

Jess is an Associate Artist at The Sainsbury Centre Museum and Art Gallery and an Associate Artist at Norwich Arts Centre and loves nothing more than creating workshops for diverse community groups exploring current themes such as the Climate Emergency, through art, writing and theatre. Jess has enjoyed connections with The National Centre for Writing, Norfolk LGBT+ project, Arvon, First Light Festival and The British Council. Jess is also a lecturer in Creative Arts at City College Norwich and at Lowestoft Sixth Form College’s BA Literary Studies with Creative Writing.

Just recently, Jess was involved in supporting artist Ruth Ewan in her commissioned project at The Sainsbury Centre - ‘Plant Stories,’ facilitating workshops in which members of the public could write their plant stories, which later collated by Ruth Ewan into a book titled ‘Catkins Forever.’

Jess’s most recent solo project and been her largest project to date: The Starling Hotline, a one-person stage play, focuses on birds and climate change on the East Coast of England and follows the fictional story of one woman’s unique approach to citizen science and record keeping in a pre-internet age. The play was co-commissioned by Arts Council England and Norwich Arts Centre.

Jess has an MA in Creative Non-Fiction from the University of East Anglia, in 2019 was longlisted for the Hinterland Prize for Non-fiction and the I’ll Show You Mine prize for writing. Jess has written and toured a short Live Literature play for the Applause Rural Touring scheme: Boring Someone In Some Dark Café - performed at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival.

During Lockdown, Jess was commissioned to write a short radio essay for BBC Radio Norfolk: Marina Centre I Love You Forever about a much-loved leisure centre in Great Yarmouth. Jess was also one of the writers involved in a programme spearheaded by The National Centre for Writing, which aimed to bring scientists from Norwich Research Park together with writers called Translating Science.

Jess has a 15 year background in music, as a singer-songwriter with songs supported by BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music.