Morganna Becker / Pizza Box Manatee

Morganna Becker is a painter, writer, director, and creator. For six years with Yaymaker, and then as a freelance artist, Morganna has been instructing classes of all sizes in painting and other arts and crafts projects. Her favorite part is encouraging self-described “non-artists” to explore their creativity. Morganna has received several awards for continuously high ratings from students. As a theater artist, Morganna has engaged with local-Boston companies as a writer, performer director, props and lighting designer, scenic artist, and stage manager. Specializing in devised theater practices, Morganna did a fellowship in Arezzo, Italy focusing on experimentation in the creation of devised work.

As Artistic Director of Pizza Box Manatee, Morganna gathers interdisciplinary artists in order to collaboratively devise theater, dance theater, film, and performance art exploring themes and genres of magic realism, shamanism, science fiction, folk tales, animal mythology, heritage, bildungsroman, and surrealism. Pizza Box Manatee use site specific, non traditional, and traditional performance spaces to explore the many different facets of assumed reality that make up each individual’s perceived reality.