Roberta Morris Purdee (born September 3, in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American film producer and documentarian.
[1] After moving to Los Angeles Morris Purdee began working as assistant to Academy Award winning actor/director Lee Grant.
In the late 90s Purdee's Karmic Release Ltd. began to strike out on its own, producing the documentary film Wallowitch & Ross: This Moment, an intimate, musical portrait of New York Cabaret legend John Wallowitch and partner Bertram Ross, who had been Martha Graham's star dancer and co-director of the Graham Company.
Directed by her brother Richard Morris and crediting both his wife, costume designer Sue Gandy and Nathan Purdee as producers as well, Wallowitch & Ross: This Moment went on to be shortlisted for the 1999 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
[6][7] During this era Morris Purdee also produced a series of specials for Sesame Workshop and the documentary Praying with Lior, and worked with Jonathan Caouette on his seminal film Tarnation.