{"id":8838,"date":"2021-03-04T00:20:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=8838"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:06:07","slug":"meet-dave-morrissey-jr-an-artist-with-multi-talents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=8838","title":{"rendered":"Meet Dave Morrissey Jr.: An artist with multi talents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dave Morrissey Jr. grew up in Long Island, New\nYork, and began acting on stage in the early 1990\u2019s, beginning with the Long\nIsland Shakespeare Festival\u2019s production of A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream. He has\nstudied creative arts since he was a child. Since then, he’s made a career as\nan actor and producer in live theater, film, television, and interactive new\nmedia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is a musician, part of two\nmusic groups, and has played piano and sang for over twenty years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave started producing in his\nearly twenties with a small group in Long Island, where he put together six\nplays, and directed one. Currently, he is the Associate Producer for Future\nProof 404 Corp in Bushwick, NY. Future Proof specializes in transmedia,\nlarge-scale digital and in-person events, as well as interactive arts. Although\nhe works for Future Proof full time, he has many other projects under way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave is also passionate about activism, and using creative platforms to promote equality, education, and positive energy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Interview with Dave Morrissey Jr., Actor, Producer, Musician<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s\nnew, Dave?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Morrissey Jr.:<\/strong> A lot! A lot of\ngood stuff. I actually just got back from my wardrobe fitting for my upcoming\npart in Season 3 of FBI. Which is definitely the most exciting thing that\u2019s happened\nrecently. I love my role, I love the direction the series is going, and it\u2019s\ngoing to be a great experience. Also, Louis Cox\u2019s \u201cNow Again,\u201d a feature film I\nproduced and had a starring role in, is going to be published on The New\nYorker’s digital platform in an exclusive yearlong agreement. We also just got\nthe paperwork for that in today as well- we couldn’t be more excited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It sounds like you\nhad an exciting 2020?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Morrissey Jr.:<\/strong> As exciting as\nsomeone can be who basically spends their year inside their computer and phone!\nWhich definitely sucks on one level, I miss going out, socializing and all\nthat. But it\u2019s been all cool creative digital stuff, and it\u2019s getting to the\ntime when a lot of things are coming together, and I’ve been working with such\ntalented people, and I don\u2019t know… like every other artists out there, I just\nreally want 2021 to be our year. Oh! And Chrome: The Series Episode 2 comes out\nin a month on Amazon Prime and a ton of other services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who do you play in\nChrome?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Morrissey Jr.:<\/strong> NAL. I\u2019m a huge\nex-riot bot whose part of a robot resistance against our human masters, led by\na female android whose basically a combination between Xena and Predator.\nTimothy Hines (Director, Creator) is brilliant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music has clearly always been close to your heart. Are you currently\nworking on anything new?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Morrissey Jr.:<\/strong> Yeah, I am actually doing the music for a 90’s retro styled video game called PSweet with Future Proof 404 Corp, a production company I\u2019ve been a proud Associate Producer for over three years. It\u2019s a visual novel where you (literally) date computer programs, and things get crazy… crazy like, your system might get invaded by artificial intelligence… there might<\/em> be a huge insane boss battle… and best of all it’s set in a sort of nostalgia world of 90s cyberspace. PSweet is coming soon to Steam and itch.io.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you always\ndone soundtracks to video games?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Morrissey Jr.:<\/strong> I\u2019ve always\nwanted to! Seriously, when I was like eight years old, I would download the\nmidi tracks to Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger, and put them into Cakewalk Studio\nand Cakewalk 2000 and write my own remixes to the songs… But no this is the\nfirst time I\u2019ve been able to professionally compose the soundtrack to a game. I\nam also doing a lot of the music for \u201cNow Again.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Now\nAgain” – where and when will we be able to see it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Morrissey Jr.:<\/strong> Soon, within the next few months. Like I said, Now Again will be published on The New Yorker’s online platform.\u00a0 It\u2019s actually the first feature film to be published on their catalog, so me and Louis are super excited and grateful for the chance to be featured by one of our favorite organizations. It couldn’t be coming out at a more important time, either- addiction affects everyone, and one of my aims (and the aims of the film) is to address the things that happen when you lose those you love without expectation. It’s made from people who know firsthand what grief and trauma does to families, and I’m proud to be a part of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dave Morrissey Jr. on set with Michael Turner and Danny Olabi in Cowboy Killer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What about your\noriginal music and Miles From Home?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Morrissey Jr.:<\/strong> Well Miles From\nHome is about to come out with an EP, because you know when COVID struck the\nonly other thing to do was finish recording. I\u2019m also actually working with two\nother musician producers, Sebastian Valencia and Ryan \u201cChuwee\u201d Doyle, and we\u2019re\nworking on a new electronic fusion project that mixes Rhythm and Blues and\nunderground styles, something cool and fresh that people would want to party to\nin a (safer) world. I grew up playing a ton of jazz and blues piano, and\nsinging my whole life, so this has been an awesome outlet to try things I\u2019ve\nalways wanted to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did you get involved in the entertainment industry?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Morrissey Jr.:<\/strong> My parents were\nperformers, and super supportive of me my entire life. So has my whole family.\nAlso my friends. I\u2019ve been able to stay involved in entertainment because of\nthe amazing people I get to work with.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What was your major TV Debut as an actor?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Morrissey Jr.:<\/strong> My first TV debut\nwas actually a Nick Jr. commercial as a 5-year-old. A few years after that, I\ndid a few commercials, including one with Cristiano Ronaldo, and eventually I\ngot a small walk on speaking role on Mr. Robot. I\u2019ve always been more involved\nin film however.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Please share your experience on the show\nand how it impacted your career.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Morrissey Jr.:<\/strong> Well, the experience on set, especially a set like that, is incredible. I had the honor of performing with two incredibly talented people, Michael Cristofer, who wrote a play very dear to my heart called The Shadowbox, as well as BD Wong, and, well, you know who BD Wong is. And he was by far, one of the coolest people I’ve ever been on set with. He was so chill, and inviting, and everyone was just really good vibes. And Sam Esmail is one of the greatest directors and producers of our time. As far as affecting your career, you know, you get one of these gigs, they’re call a co-star gig, and then you get another, and then hopefully they trust you more, and then hopefully, they bring you in for bigger stuff. So it was a really good experience, both the day and for my career. It’s a big milestone of my growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dave Morrissey in One Life to give<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What would you say is your favorite role that you have played so\nfar, and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Morrissey Jr.:<\/strong> On stage, it\nwould have to be Down the Road by Lee Blessing. I got to play a serial killer,\nand the research I did in that helped me lands a role-playing Dayton Leroy\nRogers on Grave Secrets a few years later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about on camera?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Morrissey Jr.:<\/strong> My favorite role\non camera has got to be Benjamin Tallmadge in the Revolutionary War miniseries\nOne Life to Give. I got to work with a lot of people close to my heart, I was\nbrought on by my childhood friend Michael Tessler who was at the time working for\nTBR News Media in Long Island (and who later started Multihouse Entertainment\nout in LA,) and it was directed by an extremely talented director Benji Dunaief\nwho brought on Stavis Film, and it was just a really cool experience to be able\nto work on a story about the history of your hometown, with people from around\nyour hometown, but with such incredible production that the whole project\nreally was magical. It also won a few awards and nominations, which was a first\nfor me. It was all excitement.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aside from being a musician and an actor, you are also a\nproducer. What interested you into going into producing?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Morrissey Jr.:<\/strong> I was sitting\naround one day in my early twenties and the best way I can describe the feeling\nI had is that nothing was really changing. And I was really sick of saying \u201cI\nwish I could have chosen something better\u201d for productions I was in. It was\nkind of a, I want to grab life by the balls kind a moment. And I started\nproducing live theater, because my parents came from the theater. And I knew\nhow all the pieces came together because I had acted before, like I knew what\nStage Manager did, what a director did, with the producer\u2019s responsibilities\nare, and my mom has a small black box theater out in Suffolk County so I just\nwas sick of sitting around and just found a way to do it. Which happened\nbecause my friend was directing Night of the Living Dead on stage, and they\nwanted more performances than just the one run they were guaranteed, so I\nbrought them to my space and got more involved. After that, we started planning\nmore shows, then planning seasons of shows, then I started doing more shows in\nthe city, and that\u2019s basically how it happened.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you mention some of your projects?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Morrissey Jr.:<\/strong> My most recent\nproject is Cowboy Killer, it\u2019s in post-production, we shot it when cases were\nlow, and it\u2019s ****ing awesome. It\u2019s a spaghetti western set in Brooklyn, and\nit\u2019s about a single mother who is grappling with sexual assault at the hands of\nher landlord, as well as her son’s obsession with revenge. Its brutal but heartwarming.\nIt\u2019s also half-animated. I worked with an amazing team of producers, one of who\nis my incredible partner\/girlfriend Jackie Miller, who is just incredible and\ninspirational to work with on top of all this. Also, Danny Olabi @sneaky_lyfe\nis our star, and Michael Turner (Borderlands 2 & 3, Fullmetal Alchemist:\nBrotherhood) plays one of the most disturbing, sadistic villains I\u2019ve ever\nworked with.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wow, that\u2019s quite the project!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Morrissey Jr.:<\/strong> Yeah, the\nDirector\/Writer\/EP Luke David Pakter is all creativity. But it\u2019s also\nauthentic- he organized for tenants’ rights in NYC for years before coming up\nwith this concept. He\u2019s also become one of my closest friends. I actually met\nhim going door to door for a political campaign on Long Island years ago- he\nwasn\u2019t a door, he was my boss.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How has COVID impacted your plans for this year?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Morrissey Jr.:<\/strong> Everything\nswitched digital. I was in talks with an incredible performance space and arts\nmuseum and we were about to talk about putting a new live show in there and\nthen the virus hit and everything came to a halt. I acted on set way less than\nI wanted, but thanks to Chrome: The Series I was able to have some fun voice\nacting.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is next for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Morrissey Jr.:<\/strong> I\u2019m about to pick\nup production on a project put on COVID hold, it\u2019s a multiplayer online\ninteractive film called Ultimate Viewing [e]Xperience: Omega. It\u2019s with Future\nProof, which means it will be unique, wild, dystopian, everything I love, and\nyou\u2019ll be able to view\/play it on Twitch. At Future Proof we specialize in\nunique, interactive, immersive content and installations, and I really couldn\u2019t\nask for a better group to work for. We’ve done tons of live events in the past\nfew years so this was an adjustment, but we’re also planning on doing a huge\nmega event soon in our massive new event space in East Williamsburg in\nBrooklyn.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want to be as healthy as I can. I wanna work on myself as well as my career, work out, eat healthy. I wanna make good creative opportunities for people. I want to be a good influence on the projects I work on. I also want a juicy Guest Star role on Law and Order: SVU. Hope that’s not too much to ask for!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

**Article cover photo credit: Dave Morrissey Jr. as Dayton Leroy Rogers in Grave Secrets<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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