Robert D. Morais

Robert Donat Morais is a world champion ballroom dancer and an award-winning film producer. He wrote, directed & acted in his first theater play while starting his first year of high school, at 11 years old. He was then juror #4, on the school play of "12 Angry Men", that same year. Morais was born in Montréal, Québec, Canada, to Monique Lanthier, a bank teller, and Réal Morais, a successful entrepreneur in the office supply business with several stores to his name. His mother was French-Canadian, with Austrian ancestry, while his father was an acadian from New Brunswick, with Portuguese ancestry. Alas, the divorce of his parents and the arrival of an abusive stepmother, drastically altered a promising artistic future, but he still succeeded to move on ... with enough self-discovery having gone on since. Morais started to study ballroom dancing privately at 12 years old and later on at the University. He danced: Québec folklore, ballroom [international modern & latin], ballet, tap, modern [José Limon & Martha Graham] & baroque. Winning several competitions locally, provincially (Québec), throughout Canada and finally becoming a world champion at 17 in Essen, Germany. Robert's love of the movies, starting at a very young age, is what made him choose this art-form above all the others. And it's while at University that he started a more than 30 year career in the movie business, becoming an award-winning film producer, a successful 1st Assistant Director and Production Manager and a film and theater director. He created his own film company in 1993: the OAK and the WILLOW film, developing engaging film projects. Robert D. Morais is a humanitarian, an environmentalist and a diplomat, being a former Green Party of Canada candidate for the Canadian federal elections.