Originally from Scotland, Morag Shepherd received her MA from Brigham Young University and currently serves as the Artistic Director of Sackerson, a theatre company dedicated to site-specific work, based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. Morag has had her plays produced by Plan-B Theatre, Pygmalion Theatre Company, Sackerson, Immigrant's Daughter Theatre, and Wasatch Theatre Company. Morag is a producer for Immigrant Daughter Theatre, is a resident artist for Lil Poppet Productions, and frequently directs for Hart Theater Company, Pygmalion Theatre, An Other Theatre Company, and Wasatch Theatre. 

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Morag specializes in site-specific and found spaces that revitalize and reimagine unused places in her local city and surrounding areas. Examples include: IN YOUR DREAMS (Best New Work - Hart Award), an immersive theatrical experience for one audience member and one actor at a time; CHERRY WINE IN PAPER CUPS which performed outside the Salt Lake City library in 2020, and at the University of California, Irvine in 2022; A BRIEF WALTZ IN A LITTLE ROOM which performed throughout 2019 in a defunct changing room in a mall (The Utah Review top ten moments of 2019); and HINDSIGHT, an immersive theatre experience throughout the streets of downtown SLC. 

​Select writing credits include THE BIG QUIET with Pygmalion Theatre Company, WORSHIP (The Utah Review top moment of 2023); DO YOU WANT TO SEE ME NAKED (Critics Choice Award, and Best Solo Performance, top ten moments of Utah Enlightenment 2017) which performed in Salt Lake City, Tucson, and The United Solo Festival in New York City.

TRAIN TRACKS (co-produced with Flying Bobcat); and BURN (Association of Mormon Letters Award for Best Drama).

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Recent directing credits include RED by John Logan with Lil Poppet Theatre and Sackerson; BECKY NURSE OF SALEM by Sarah Ruhl at Pygmalion Theatre Company; THE LAST FIVE YEARS by Jason Robert Brown at the Eccles Blackbox; MISERY by William Goldman (Best Play, Best Director - Hart Award) at Westminster University; and THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENAN by Martin McDonagh (Best Director and Best Play nominee) at Hart Theater Company. 

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Some favorite producing credits include MY BROTHER WAS A VAMPIRE at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which performed with the SpaceUK; THE WORDS AT THE DOOR at the Salt Lake Fringe Festival; PILOT PROGRAM with Sunstone, and ETIQUETTE with Sackerson. ​

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Morag is a member of the Dramatist Guild and the New Play Exchange.