Shepherd, who is originally from Scotland and is also a playwright, recently directed "Last Lists of My Mad Mother" by Julie Jensen at PYGmalion Theatre and "The Last Five Years" by Jason Robert Brownat Hart Theater Company. The company she co-founded, Immigrant's Daughter Theatre, took her play "My Brother Was a Vampire" to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in summer 2025. 

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She described the show as follows: 'I think that 'Becky Nurse of Salem' is such a fun, fast-paced, but also clever and smart look at the way that we are affected by historical atrocities. Events like the Salem witch trials are such a salient fact, but it's hard to really outline and articulate how it has affected following generations, and how it continues to dominate the cultural imagination today. Sarah Ruhl asserts in this piece that there are some tenuous and significant links between the trials and women's healthcare, women's autonomy, women's ownership over information, and history itself."

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She also talked about her vision for the show: "Because the piece is so episodic in structure (in other words, broken up into multiple sections), my vision is to keep the play moving as fast as it can; and because the play is so concerned with exposing how the past influences the present, I want to also expose all of the elements, and the hand that hides the magical effects of the theatre. So, we will see if we pull it off or not. Mainly I hope that the audience has a good time with the material because Ruhl obviously had a blast with these characters." PYGmalion Theatre Company Continues 2025/26 Season With BECKY NURSE OF SALEM (Broadway World)

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With Morag Shepherd’s sharp-witted direction, PYGmalion Productions Theatre Company’s Utah premiere of Ruhl’s play affirms the verdict with outstanding performances and a rollicking  pace which commands the audience’s interest. Shepherd’s touches of theatrical choreography along with live sound effects and designs handled by McKell Petersen (who also takes the role of Stan) are welcome embellishments. PYGmalion Productions’ Utah premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s Becky Nurse of Salem is sharp-witted, superbly acted, crisp in its rollicking pace (The Utah Review)

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Theater reviews: Pygmalion Productions’ Becky Nurse of Salem (The City Weekly)

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PYG’s BECKY NURSE OF SALEM Sheds Light on A Disturbing Past (Utah Theatre Bloggers)

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Morag Shepherd‘s direction emphasizes fluidity, rupture, and embodied tension, allowing comedy and horror to coexist without smoothing their edges. The episodic structure moves quickly but never casually, keeping the audience alert to how past and present continually interrupt one another. Moments of stillness and acceleration are carefully calibrated, reinforcing the play’s sense of precarity. This is some of Shepherd’s strongest work yet. PYG Review: Becky, Nurse of Salem—Returning to the Past to Tell History Differently (Rhetorical Review)