Eileen J. Morris (Director/Managing Director of Kuntu theatre) is an accomplished actress, director, and educator of the expression of art. In 1981 she moved from Illinois to Houston to launch a career that included acting and directing onstage, film, and television. Since the move, audiences have had the pleasure of seeing her work onstage in Houston at the Ensemble Theatre, the Alley Theatre and other theatrical houses.

Ms. Morris has directed such plays as, Blues for an Alabama Sky, The Tap Dance Kid, Christmas is Comin' Uptown, Lotto: Experience the Dream, and A Soldier's Play at the Ensemble Theatre (Houston, TX), Lifting, Miss Dessa and Flyin' West at Kuntu Repertory Theatre, Pretty Fire for New Heights Theatre (Houston) and Achilles Heel and The Music Machine for Houston Grand Opera. As a performer Ms. Morris has been seen on stage in the Alley Theatre's A Christmas Carol and Joe Turner's Come and Gone and the Ensemble Theatre in Two Trains Running, The Piano Lesson, and A Raisin in the Sun to name a few. Her television and film credits include Makeover, Walker, Texas Ranger, Evening Star, Carried Away, and JFK.

Ms. Morris serves on the board of the Black Theatre Network and Texas Non-Profit Theatres. In 1998 she received the YWCA "Outstanding Women in the Arts" award! She was chair of the theatre panel of the Cultural Arts Council of Houston, Harris County, and was an invited artist this past March 1998 by August Wilson to the National Black Theatre Summit I at Dartmouth College and Summit II in Atlanta. She is a graduate of the Dartmouth College TUCK MEP and AMEP program. In March 1999 she received the Outstanding Texan Award in the Arts by the Texas Legislative Black Caucus.