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Jill Morley is a writer/filmmaker/actress and the director of the critically acclaimed documentary STRIPPED. STRIPPED premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and toured Australia and New Zealand as the only feature selected for the Women In Film tour. Vanguard Cinema is releasing STRIPPED on video/DVD nationwide. For the DVD, Morley directed her first music video, "Take It Off," featuring rocker Debra DeSalvo.

Previously, Morley wrote and performed the play, True Confessions of a Go-Go Girl, which is published in The Best Women's Plays of 1998. True Confessions was produced in Manhattan; San Francisco's "Solo Mio Festival," along with John Waters and Eric Bogosian; The "Texas Fringe Festival"; LA's HBO Workspace; and opened Women's History month at NYU.

As a writer and performer, Morley received rave reviews from The New York Times, Village Voice, Backstage, New York Newsday andTime-Out New York. She has been interviewed for EXTRA, both in the U.S and Germany; A Current Affair, City TV (Canada), New Jersey's Talking, Partytalk, Unsolved Mysteries, for Shout magazine,and was recently quoted in GQ . Besides being published periodically in The Village Voice, Gear Magazine, The New York Press, Playgirl, Penthouse, and Shout magazine, some of Morley's newest monologues are included in More Women's Monologues for Women, by Women. She co-produced two radio documentaries for The World and This American Life, which aired on NPR. Highlights ofMorley's acting career include a role in Hal Hartley's Henry Fool, and working as a correspondent in Michael Moore's The Awful Truth. She also enjoyed being directed by Paul Sills, founder of Chicago's Second City, in an original story theatre production; playing Jackie Kennedy for Japanese television, and playing Queen of the Goggleheads for the Sci-Fi channel.

photo by Jo Weldon of Jill Morley shooting concert footage for "Take It Off" music video