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Mitch Morris

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Mitch Morris was born in Corpus Christi, Texas and raised in a suburb named Portland. He graduated from Gregory-Portland High School in 1998. As a trumpet player, he was offered a music scholarship to the University of North Texas, but turned it down to study Radio, Television and Film. He earned his BA from California State University, Northridge. After moving to Los Angeles, he first appeared in a commercial for American Eagle Outfitters, before making guest appearances on shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ER and Presidio Med.

In 2003, Mitch made his stage debut in the LA revival of the Pulitzer-Prize nominated play, Summertree. Openly gay in real life, he played several gay roles, such as the Todd Stephens sex-comedy, Another Gay Movie (2006), and had led the "pink posse", as Cody Bell on Showtime's Queer as Folk. He played other roles as well, such as CIA tech-genius, Ken Watkins, on Jerry Bruckheimer's E-Ring and the police drama Honor (2006). He ended his acting career with the short film "Up One Night" (2009). He later earned a law degree and practiced as a lawyer for a short time in California. Then, he attended Sarah Lawrence College where he earned an MFA in creative writing. He started writing professionally and also became a professor at Purchase College. He lives in New York City.
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Mitch Morris earned a Juris Doctor from Villanova University School of Law and is a member of the State Bar of California.
In June 2017, there was an event at Sarah Lawrence College called "From A to LGBTQ" that celebrated Gay Pride month with writers who read a series of personal essays on coming up, coming out, and coming to terms. Morris publicly read his essay titled "Little Boys Don't Say Things Like That", which is what his mother had said to him, after he had told her that he liked another boy when he was five years old. He wouldn't come out to his mother again, until many years later.
He earned his MFA in Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College. In 2017, he started teaching novel writing at Sarah Lawrence Writing Institute.
He is a writing professor at Purchase College, part of State University of New York.
He earned his B.A. from California State University, Northridge.

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