ACTING (partial):
Once Guy Broadway Rose Theatre Company
Nickel Mines Samuel ACT of Connecticut
Nickel Mines Samuel New York Musical Festival (NYMF)
Once Eamon Laguna Playhouse
Once Eamon CCAE Theatricals
Lit Narrator Blindspot Collective
Romeo+Juliet+Anybodys Romeo Cincinnati Fringe Festival
The Fantasticks Matt New Swan Shakespeare Festival
The Farnsworth Invention Young Farnsworth La Jolla Playhouse
The Scottish Play Morgan La Jolla Playhouse
Fiddler On the Roof Fiddler Lyric Opera San Diego
Master Harold & the Boys Hally San Diego Actors Theatre
Resume available for download here:
WRITING:
The House of Edgar Allan Poe: A Musical Based on His Life and Work
Wrote the book, music, and orchestrations. Lyrics based on the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Clemm, and Frances Sargent Osgood. Poe received a full production in 2019 as part of Weber State University’s mainstage season. Prior, Poe had two staged readings at UC Irvine, and in 2017 was part of New York Musical Festival’s (NYMF) Developmental Reading Series.
More Than All the Sky: A New Musical
Wrote the music and additional lyrics. Libretto by Lori Ada Jaroslow. More Than All the Sky navigates the complexities of addiction while offering hope for sobriety. Originally a fifteen-minute musical produced at New Musicals Initiative (NMI) in North Hollywood, and was a semi-finalist for the Eugene O'Neill National Music Theater Conference.
Call Your Mother: A Musical
Wrote the music, book, and lyrics. A family friendly 50-minute musical that follows an NYC barista as his customers try to convince him to call his mother on Mother's Day. Commissioned and produced through the musical theater podcast series One Million Musicals.
Hindsight, EP
An album of original songs recorded, mixed, and mastered in Portland, OR, at The Rye Room and Telegraph Mastering respectively.
Shadow of Doubt
First full-length album from folk/rock band, Satin Nickel, produced by Soundworks Recording Studio in Astoria, NY. Morgan contributes vocals, guitar, mandolin, and original songs.
OTHER WRITING:
Washed Ashore
Salty Water
Fracture
Let There Be Light (short film)
When (dance piece)
That Night (short film)
In the Hall (musical)
Notes from Underground
The Effects of Gamma Rays...
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Original Choir Piece
Original Music
Original Music
Original Music
Original Muisc
Original Music
Composer
Composer/Book
Original Music
Original Music
Blindspot Co./Walk With Amal
Blindspot Co./La Jolla Playhouse WOW Festival
Jon K. Jones/20th Century Fox/Hulu
Jon K. Jones (Columbia University)
Freemove Dance
Murphy Brothers Productions
Portola Middle School Performing Arts
UC Irvine Workshop
UC Irvine Workshop
San Diego Junior Theatre
TRAINING:
BFA in Musical Theatre with Honors in Acting and Music Theater from University of California—Irvine
Voice: Edward Hollingsworth, Dr. Daniel Gary Busby
Dance: UC Irvine, San Diego Dance Center, Touch of Class Studios
Acting: UC Irvine, The Old Globe Summer Shakespeare Intensive, La Jolla Playhouse Conservatory, San Diego Junior Theatre
Writing: Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project, NMI’s Academy of New Musical Theatre Core Curriculum
SPECIAL SKILLS:
Guitar (acoustic, electric, and slide guitar), mandolin, violin, viola, and piano
Perfect pitch, sight reading, proficiency in Finale Notation Software and Logic Pro X
Music arranging, copying, transcription, and transposition
Sound engineering and sound mixing
Juggles balls, rings, and clubs; can juggle while eating an apple.
British, Cockney, Irish, and Southern dialects.
Rex Harrison impression.