ABOUT

Originally from Scotland, Morag Shepherd received her MA from Brigham Young University and currently serves as a producer of Sackerson, and the Artistic Director of Immigrant's Daughter Theatre, both based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. Morag is a proud member of the Plan-B writers lab, where her play MY BROTHER WAS A VAMPIRE, FLORA MEETS A BEE (NEA recipient), and NOT ONE DROP (David Ross Fetzer grant recipient) have performed. Morag sits on the board of Lil Poppets Productions, and frequently directs for Hart Theater Company, and Pygmalion Theatre.

Morag specializes in site-specific works that revitalize unused spaces 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).

Recent directing credits include MISERY by William Goldman (Best Play, Best Director - Hart Award) at Westminster University; THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS by Paul Zindel at Hart Theater Company; a staged reading of SUNNY IN THE DARK by Elaine Jarvik at Salt Lake Acting Company; LAST LISTS OF MY MAD MOTHER by Julie Jensen at Pygmalion Theatre; THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENAN by Martin McDonagh (Best Director and Best Play nominee) at Hart Theater Company; and MELANCHOLY PLAY by Sarah Ruhl at Mid-Valley Performing Arts.

Some favorite producing credits include A CATFISH CHRISTMAS with Three Penny Theatre at The Alliance Theatre, SAVAGE RESOURCES at The Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival, PILOT PROGRAM with Sunstone, and ETIQUETTE with Sackerson.

Sackerson's upcoming project will showcase an immersive, site specific production in a car for three audience members at a time in Spring 2025. Immigrant's Daughter Theatre will be taking MY BROTHER WAS A VAMPIRE to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, performing at the Niddry with theSpaceUK, August 2025.

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

Current Production:

THE BIG QUIET

Pygmalion Productions is pleased to present “The Big Quiet” an accurate and poignant portrayal of some of the challenges that sister missionaries face. The play will appeal to a wide audience of people who want to see meaningful, dynamic relationships, conflict and beautiful resolutions onstage. The play features Sister Garcia and Sister Roberts, companions serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in San Diego, California in 2005. The entire play takes place in their missionary apartment, where we see their relationship evolve, devolve, and erupt as they wrestle with the confines of the rules, and determine their relationship with food, fasting, and God.

The play is written by Morag Shepherd and directed by Tamara Howell. It plays from February 21 to March 8, 2025 at the Rose Wagner Center for Performing Arts located at 138 West Broadway in downtown Salt Lake City.

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