She became a stand-out star in Dunedin musicals including Cats, Into the Woods, Mamma Mia and Grease.
Now living in Auckland, Morris continues to bring joy to her roles.
In 2020, Morris was living in Melbourne and flying back and forward between Australia and New Zealand for a string of projects in both countries.
Covid-19 changed that trajectory and Morris ended up on a flight to New Zealand on the day the country began to close the borders to New Zealanders coming home.
"So I came back and I stayed and hit that whole Covid journey that everybody has, of losing gigs and that kind of thing and being back home."
While in lockdown she performed from her living room for charity.
As gigs were cancelled or postponed she decided it was time for a change and moved to Auckland at the beginning of 2022.
Her first public concert in Auckland was the Candlelight Music Series inside Auckland’s beautiful inner city church, Saint Matthew-in-the-City.
The concerts held during Covid-19 restrictions featured a small audience of 100 who were socially distanced sitting around the piano in candlelight.
"It just felt really special to be able to gather again."
Then Morris fulfilled a long-held dream, landing a role on New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street.
Playing "bad girl" Kaz McCarthy was a chance to inhabit a darker character than some of her previous roles.
"I had to do some fight scenes, I got shot with a nail gun."
Kaz was a "pretty tough nut", Morris said.
"But the one thing about her is she cared a lot for her children, so she was definitely a caring person but found herself in a lot of trouble."
Coming up on her busy calendar in June , Morris will be a special guest singer at Drag Orchestrated, a night of entertainment with drag queen Anita Wigl’it, known for RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under.
With the backing of Orchestra Auckland the show would be "a big colourful explosion of fun music and good laughs", she said.
"I will be wearing the sparkliest dresses I own."
