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Kalin Morrow is an American actress and dancer, currently living in Europe. She was born in Oklahoma and received a BFA at the University of Oklahoma and later studied acting at the Mulholland Academy for Acting and Film in Amsterdam. She can be seen as The Hooded Woman in Tilman Singer’s feature film CUCKOO, starring Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens, now on VOD. CUCKOO premiered at the Berlinale, SXSW and won the BIFFF Silver Raven Award. She also works with choreographer Dunja Jocić as a dancer and assistant in Amsterdam and is in production on multiple projects for theater, film and dance for release in 2025. She received the Arts Luminary Award from her alma mater in 2023 and in 2024, she won the Swan Award for ‘Most Impressive Dance Performance’ at the VSCD Netherlands Dance Days. She is represented by Qayumi Talent Agency and The Movers Amsterdam.

ACTING: IMDb QTA

Morrow was inspired to pursue acting further after encouragement from Director Tilman Singer on the set of CUCKOO. She went on to play the lead role of Maya Plisetskaya in the play In de Naam Van by director Agnes Laura Kumpina and has since had multiple lead and supporting roles with wonderHouse boutique theatre, has played the lead in several short films, internal videos and commercials.

Morrow appeared in the 2023 USHER x Remy Martin called Life is a Melody campaign and has worked with esteemed Dutch Director Johan Kramer in two commercial campaigns and with US Director Theresa Wingert in her Thrivers commercial.

DANCE: The Movers Amsterdam

Morrow starred in ALMA, a film collaboration with Dutch film Director Marinus Groothof, artist Siba Sahabi and flamenco dancer Andrés Marín. Morrow has been in several dance films including IDEAOLOGIES, directed by Sarah Elgart and QI, a collaboration with No)one. Art House and filmmaker Anastacia Junqueira. Morrow has been featured in photography by Jimmy Nelson and Sander Baks for KinetiCode Pilates and has filmed a collaboration with flamenco dancer, Tamar Porcelyn. She has also worked with Patricia Winklaar and Glenn Westphal in a performance at the famous Supperclub in Amsterdam.

Morrow performed in Jocic’s The Previous Owner, Arcus Cloud, The Previous Owner, De Panter and O/A/E and Het Gras Hier is Groener. She has worked with Cooperative Maura Morales as a dancer and assistant in Efecto Mariposa, Cherchez la Femme and Phobos. Morrow performed in Ryan Djojokarso’s MOM:me, Edan Gorlicki’s What Do We Do and Lucky Bastards and Compagnie Black Sheep/Johanna Faye’s Afastado Em. She was in the cast of Within by Marina Miguélez Lucena and also worked at La Biennale di Venezia Festival (under the direction of Marie Chouinard) with choreographers Irina Baldini, Chloe Chignell and Joaquín Collado Parreño. Morrow was in in the cast of Club Guy & Roni's Mechanical Ecstasy, Itzik Galili's Prins Igor with the Dutch Nationale Opera and with Menghan Lou's Dissonance at Korzo Theatre. She has also been a guest dancer for the Think Big Residency with Edan Gorlicki, Carla Jordäo and Ashley Wright. 

Morrow has been a company member with Tanzcompagnie Konzert Theater Bern, BODYTRAFFIC and No)one. Art House in Los Angeles, Wideman/Davis Dance, Nevada Ballet Theatre and has been a guest artist with Ron de Jesus Dance, Deep Dish Dance/Autumn Eckman, Cerqua Rivera Dance Theater, National Choreographer’s Initiative, Chicago Repertory Ballet and Sarah Elgart | Arrogant Elbow.  During her career, she has worked with choreographers such as Guy Weizman & Roni Haver, Hofesh Shechter, Dunja Jocic, Maura Morales, Ryan Djojokarso, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Edan Gorlicki, Etienne Béchard, the Overhead Project, Carlo Massari and Chiara Taviani of C&C Company, Barak Marshall, Maurice Causey, Thaddeus Davis, Tanya Wideman-Davis, Brian Enos, Roderick George, Christopher Bordenave, Trey McIntyre, Matthew Neenan, Joshua Peugh and Jordan Saenz. 

She trained under Kay Sandel at Classical Ballet School and Oklahoma City Ballet with Robert Mills and Viktoria Page. She began her career with Oklahoma City Ballet and Tulsa Ballet, before graduating with honors from the University of Oklahoma, BFA in Performance. 

TEACHING:

Morrow began teaching early in her career at the Classical Ballet School of OKC and continued to study teaching pedagogy at OU under Donn Edwards.  She has taught for ICK Amsterdam (NL), Dance Company Nanine Linning in Heidelberg (DE), Conny Janssen Danst (NL), Dansateliers (NL), Club Guy & Roni (NL), Sally Dansgezelschap Maastricht (NL), Henny Jurriens Studio (NL), De Studio Rotterdam (NL), De Stilte Dansgezelschap Breda (NL), La Biennale's Choreographic College (IT), Marina Miguélez Dance Craft (SP), a workshop with Johanna Faye of Compagnie Black Sheep for Espace1789 (FR),  BODYTRAFFIC (US), the Lou Conte Dance Studio, home of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Visceral Dance Studio, Extensions Dance Studio, Westside School of Ballet in LA, the Dance Profusion Project, Brockus Conservatory, company and workshop classes for No)one. Art House and was invited to be an adjunct faculty member at Loyola Marymount University in 2014. She often teaches workshops, most recently at Classical Ballet School, a masterclass at the School of Oklahoma City Ballet, Extensions Dance Studio and at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz (ZZT), Köln. She is currently adjunct faculty at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten/Expanded Contemporary Program (NL).

CHOREOGRAPHY:

Morrow choreographed an evening-length work Skiagraphia, alongside flamenco dancer Andrés Marín, that premiered at the Julidans Festival in 2022. In 2018, she created a solo called Nudge which premiered at the Frammenti di Danza festival in Vicenza, Italy. Morrow has choreographed for the OU School of Dance, Nevada Ballet Theatre, The Choreographers’ Showcase, a collaborative program with NBT and Cirque du Soleil, Chicago Freelance Dance, Brockus Conservatory, DanceWorks Chicago’s Dance Chance and for BODYTRAFFIC during a performance at The Ford in Los Angeles in 2014.

ART:

Morrow also studied Fine Art at the University of Oklahoma, specifically in Figurative Sculpture under Sohail Shehada and Paul Moore, with a concentration in painting.  She was commissioned for two works to be on display at the OU School of Dance and has received honors including the Kim and Paul Moore Sculpture Scholarship, the Joe Taylor Figurative Sculpture Award, the Glennis Horn Scholarship and the John Potts Jr. Sculpture Award. She continues to make work in her free time as a member of The Seam Space, Rotterdam.