Josiah Morgan (he/him, Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Maniapoto) is an interdisciplinary takatāpui artist based in Ōtautahi, Aotearoa. He has worked nationally and internationally as both a writer and performer, having written five books and created numerous works of theatrical and performance art. His most recent book is i’m still growing, published by Dead Bird Books. He is the featured poet in Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2026 with his chapbook Black Window. In 2026 his horror-memoir The Texas Chainsaw Massacre will be republished with Washington State University. 

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has also performed as part of Auckland Pride’s Elevates program in 2024 as a six-hour long performance artwork. He explores the intersection of literature, performance, theater, film and dance. 

He is inspired by the relationship between textual and embodied processes, as well as the porous boundary between fiction and film. Recently, his work has been strongly inspired by documentary and pseudodocumentary works by filmmakers like Nathan Fielder, John Wilson, Frederick Wiseman & the Jackass team. 

His work has been performed as part of Tiny Fest, Auckland Pride, samesamebutdifferent, Tīrama Mai, Creatives in Schools and more. His most recent work is the theatre-performance art hybrid show Faust On Trial, created as part of Hagley Theatre School’s Six-Month Theatre Creation Course, involving a long-form occupation of space.