Ann Morrison

Ann was born in Sioux City, IA to composer and music professor Donald Morrison and painter/dancer/poet/choreographer/director Elisabeth "Lizzi" (nee Walker) Morrison then raised in Lombard, IL outside of Chicago. She began working as a teenager as an actress in her family's summer stock company in Lake Geneva WI. After high school graduation she studied briefly at Boston Coservatory and then HB Studios in New York before earning her Equity Card at the Burt Reynolds Institute For Theater Training. She appeared as herself on Dinah Shore's daytime TV talk show Dinah!(1978) singing "I Can Cook Too." A year later after an Off Broadway musical "Dreamtime" and several Regional Theater plays, she was discovered by Director/Choreographer Ron Field who brought her to the attention of legend Harold Prince. Prince cast her as Mary Flynn in "Merrily We Roll Along" on Broadway which garnered her the Theatre World Award. Her first film was the musical "Keystone" as legend Mabel Normand for New Jersey Network.