Ioan Morris is a writer, artist and musician based in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales.
Spectre of the Bear is a BAFTA Cymru and British Animation Awards-nominated animated short film starring Craig Roberts and Bill Nighy. It was written, designed and scored by Ioan, directed by Josh Hicks and produced by Nia Alavezos for Ffilm Cymru, BBC Wales and BFI Network. Following a festival run in the UK, USA and Europe, it was broadcast on BBC Two in December 2024 and can now be viewed on BBC iPlayer.
Ioan is currently developing several further ideas for animated comedy.
In 2022, Ioan wrote Orig - about the legendary Welsh professional wrestler Orig Williams - for Llyfrau Broga's Welsh Wonders/Enwogion o Fri series of children's picture books. The book was illustrated by Josh Hicks.
His comic miniseries, Biggol, was published by CPE Books and was listed on Pipedream Comics' Best of 2020 list and won the Broken Frontier Award for Best New Periodical Series.
As a musical artist, Ioan collaborated with Goodparley for Surroundings, an ambient electronic record released by Subexotic Records in November 2021. He also composed an "imagined soundtrack" for The Magician's Nephew, initially released by Bibliotapes.
Ioan has worked as a media composer since 2015, primarily composing scores for audio drama, collaborating with producer Scott Handcock across a range of critically acclaimed series for Big Finish Productions.
Ioan was the Concept Designer for a pair of animated Doctor Who stories (Galaxy 4 in 2021 and The Abominable Snowmen in 2022) and other recent clients include BBC Studios, Expectation Entertainment for ITV and Confédération Européenne de Volleyball.
He is the co-host of The New Recommender podcast with Geoff Roberts and is the writer and director of The Regional Games Games -- Episode 2.