Aaron S Morton
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Speech, Communications and Theatre Arts
EMAIL: amorton@bmcc.cuny.edu
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Office Hours: Tue. 8:45-9:45pm; Wed. 8:45-9:45pm; Fri. 3:45-4:45pm
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Aaron Morton is an actor, writer and artist born and raised in Plainfield, NJ. He has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from Colgate University and an MFA in Acting from Columbia University. He is the founder of Bridge to Reality, a nonprofit geared towards increasing the presence of people of color in the arts. Prof. Morton believes that the arts can change the world and through his classes instills the strength of collaboration, communication, and awareness to create better artists and human beings.
As an actor Aaron has worked worked with Ava DuVernay and Lena Waithe among others. His work can be seen on Netflix, Paramount +, ABC, CBS, and NBC.
Expertise
Effective Communication, Collaboration, Physical and Emotional Awareness, Acting
Degrees
Bachelor of Science – Computer Science
Master of Fine Arts – Acting
Courses Taught
- The aim of this course is to develop effective skills in speech communication. The student examines how to generate topics and organized ideas, masters elements of audience psychology and practices techniques of speech presentation in a public forum. All elements of speech production and presentation are considered.
- Basic acting skills, a method of approaching a role, a working vocabulary, and the responsibilities of the actor will be studied through improvisations, theatre games, and performance of scenes or monologues from plays and other dramatic material studied in class.
- This course continues the study of methods and exercises introduced in Acting I to develop the actor's skills, and moves on to an in-depth study of scene analysis and characterization. Creating an ensemble and exposure to different historical periods will be emphasized. Prerequisite: THE 110
