Deirdre Morris  joined WFNM in 2001 after two years of working with the company as an independent performer. Deirdre has been involved in the performance arts for the past 18 years and as a solo Butoh artist for the past ten years. She has held the positions of choreographer, performer, principle dancer, business manager, director and administrator for many projects located mainly in and around the New England area, New Mexico and Miami, Florida. One example of her projects is Fusionworks: Women Dancing, an all female modern group that showcased the strength and versatility of  an all woman troupe in performances touring throughout the east coast. In this project, Deirdre also worked with inner city youth throughout Rhode Island and Massachusetts both as an arts educator and as a positive female role model. Deirdre worked  in the capacity of arts educator and choreographer with, AS220 in Providence, RI, (a non-profit arts space that promotes inner city youth programs and education by providing a free space for performance and art exhibition) the local Aids Awareness Chapter (fundraising coordinator and performer) and The Carriage House Theater in Providence, RI ( working with at risk youth in an impoverished neighborhood and providing programming most notably to the students at Hope High School, one of the high schools in Providence with the highest drop out and violence rates in the city). Locally she was chosen to act as artistic director of the all female One Railroad Circus 2000, by WFNM and curator of the Annual Choreographers Showcase 2000 and 2001, by the New Mexico Dance Coalition.

Currently Deirdre is working in her seventh year with Wise Fool New Mexico as a principal performer, teacher, choreographer, Production and Booking Agent, Studio Manager and she is in her fourth year as the Producer of the Women’s Summer Circus Workshop Intensive. Deirdre has also been a member of the Production team for a program in Miami, Florida titled “Walking Tall Circus”, where she has been working with at risk youth in the Miami county area. Deirdre is currently working on a new performance project to be premiered in September 2006, tentively titled Ashes & Snow: a study in the Alchemy of Hope.