TEACHING ARTIST


When teaching, Morgan offers a gamut of traditions and tools to his students. With 25 years of instructing Japanese sword arts, he brings the rigor, focus, and precision of the martial disciplines. As a journeyman of classical theatre, his approach to teaching Shakespeare is deeply rooted in authentic Elizabethan practices, while making five-century old scripts accessible and enlivened for the modern theatre student. He is equally adept as a generative artist and deviser, having received extensive training in the postmodern techniques of The Suzuki Method and Ann Bogart's View Points. Above all, Morgan celebrates the imagination of the theatre student, encouraging play, curiosity, joy, and freedom. 

He has been a guest instructor of acting and movement at Long Island University, led workshops on acting Shakespeare with The Pennsylvania Shakespeare and South Dakota Shakespeare festivals, directed children's plays, and coached artists one-on-one that are new to acting, expanding their skill sets, or brushing up after a long hiatus. 

If you asked Morgan why he finds teaching theatre rewarding, he would say, "It's seeing the little kid inside proclaiming they are still in there. It's about facilitating a journey for the student to let that inner kid unapologetically jump for joy."