MORGAN SILLS

MORGAN SILLS is an award-winning Arts Administrator, Producer, and Director with Broadway, off-Broadway, and regional theatre credits.

As a partner in Driemeyer-Sills Productions, he was on the producing team of the NYC run of Drew Droege’s Happy Birthday Doug (2020, return engagement June 2022), at off-Broadway’s Soho Playhouse and now streaming on BroadwayHD. He produced the Irish comedy Party Face at New York City Center, starring Academy Award winner Hayley Mills and directed by Amanda Bearse. He was also one of the producers of the New York production of Shear Madness, which ran more than 600 performances.

On Broadway, Morgan was a producer of the Tony nominated 2014 revival of Of Mice And Men (starring James Franco and Chris O’Dowd) as a partner in Piedmont Productions. The production was the first-ever Broadway show taped for broadcast by Britain’s National Theatre Live.

In 2013, Morgan was one of the lead producers of the first NYC revival of Tennessee Williams’ The Two-Character Play starring Tony & Emmy winner Amanda Plummer (Hunger Games: Catching Fire) and Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee Brad Dourif (Lord of the Rings). A New York Times Critic’s Pick, the show played an extended limited engagement at New World Stages.

Morgan is co-founder of Judson Theatre Company in Pinehurst, NC, and is currently in his eleventh season as JTC’s Executive Producer. JTC is the resident professional theatre company at the newly renovated Bradshaw Performing Arts Center. It has received NC Theatre Conference's George A. Parides Professional Theatre Award for excellence in professional theatre in North Carolina, multiple Broadway World Raleigh Awards, and several Best of the Pines nominations. For JTC, Morgan has produced Love Letters starring Hollywood icon Tab Hunter and Joyce DeWitt (Three’s Company), which marked Mr. Hunter's return to the stage after a 30-year absence and his final acting role; Tuesdays with Morrie starring Jamie Farr (M*A*S*H), the American debut of Mr. Farr's performance as "Morrie"; Driving Miss Daisy starring four-time Emmy winner Michael Learned (The Waltons) and Lance E. Nichols (HBO’s Treme); Bell, Book and Candle starring Emmy nominee Mindy Cohn (The Facts of Life and Scooby Doo); Steel Magnolias starring Teresa Ganzel (The Toy, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson); To Kill a Mockingbird starring Johnny Whitaker (Family Affair); Plaza Suite starring Eve Plumb (The Brady Bunch) and Rex Smith (As the World Turns, Solid Gold); Harvey with Emmy nominee Elinor Donahue (The Andy Griffith Show, Father Knows Best) in her "farewell" theatrical performance; On Golden Pond starring John Davidson (That's Incredible, Hollywood Squares); Twelve Angry Men starring two-time Emmy winner John Wesley Shipp (Dawson's Creek, The Flash); Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None and The Mousetrap, both starring Alison Arngrim (Little House on the Prairie); Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys starring Don Most (Happy Days, Glee) and Robert Wuhl (Arli$$, Bull Durham, Batman); The Miracle Worker with John James (Dynasty); Love, Loss, and What I Wore starring Emmy and Golden Globe winner Sally Struthers (All in the Family, Gilmore Girls), Kim Coles (Living Single), and Joyce Reehling; Souvenir starring Liz McCartney and two-time Tony Award nominee Bob Stillman; Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution starring Tony Award nominee Alan Campbell (Sunset Boulevard, Jake and the Fatman); the regional theatre premiere of Yes, Virginia starring Mindy Sterling (Austin Powers, iCarly) and Arnetia Walker (Nurses, Dreamgirls); Lee Squared: The Liberace and Peggy Lee Comeback Tour with David Maiocco and Chuck Sweeney; Neil Simon’s The Star-Spangled Girl, Gaslight (Angel Street) with Maxwell Caulfield, Butterflies are Free with Morgan Fairchild, and Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Nile. JTC’s Summer Theatre Festival launched in 2022 in BPAC’s McPherson Theatre. For the festival, Morgan has produced Gutenberg! The Musical!; Buyer & Cellar; tick, tick…BOOM!; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; The Year of Magical Thinking, The Last Five Years, They’re Playing Our Song, Mrs. Mannerly (with Linda Purl), and Tell Me on a Sunday. Get more info and tickets at JudsonTheatre.com.

Since spring 2022, Morgan has served as Executive Director of Bradshaw Performing Arts Center, a five-venue arts and entertainment and event space in Pinehurst, NC. In his first year, he inaugurated four programming series. Among the acts he has booked into BPAC: Jimmy Webb, Garrison Keillor, Charo, Kelli O’Hara, The Gatlin Brothers, Paulo Szot, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Joe DeVito, Becky Robinson, Jim Caruso’s Cast Party with Billy Stritch, The Four Freshmen, and Klea Blackhurst.

Morgan has worked as a regional theatre director of plays and musicals. At Millbrook Playhouse, Morgan directed Dial 'M' for Murder (2015), Steel Magnolias (2016), Wait Until Dark (2017), Sexy Laundry (2019), and Deathtrap (2021). He has also directed multiple productions of Forever Plaid, including both Forever Plaid and Plaid Tidings (2013) at Temple Theatre (NC) and Forever Plaid at Shawnee Playhouse (PA) in 2014. In October 2019, he enjoyed working on his sixteenth production of Forever Plaid, directing the show at Artistree Music Theatre Festival (VT). At Judson Theatre Company, he directed Buyer & Cellar and Mrs. Mannerly.

Under the banner of his first company Wildcat Theatricals (2002-10), Morgan produced well-reviewed off-off-Broadway revivals of the classic comedies My 3 Angels, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Midtown International Theatre Festival Award-Best Revival, Director, Supporting Actor, plus 5 other nominations), and A Shot In The Dark (3 MITF Award nominations).  He also presented the NYC premiere of his friend Leonard Gershe’s Miss Pell Is Missing (MITF Award-Outstanding Reading).  In Provincetown, he produced Fully Committed and the all-male Andrews Sisters tribute show he scripted, The Andrews Misters. 

During his fifteen years as a professional actor, Morgan toured the continental United States performing in multiple national companies of Forever Plaid (playing each of the four Plaids) and appeared in New York, regional, and stock productions of a myriad of plays and musicals. Television audiences enjoyed Morgan’s multiple appearances singing the “Top Ten List” as a Late Show Caroler on The Late Show with David Letterman. Morgan produced and performed three concert evenings that played New York and around the country: The Roger Edens Songbook (MAC Award nomination), The Johnny Mercer Songbook, and The Lyrics Of Oscar Hammerstein II.   Also a writer and lover of theatre history, Morgan contributed to the Theatermania Guide To Musical Theatre Recordings and did archival print research for Rick McKay’s landmark documentary film Broadway: the Golden Age.

Driemeyer-Sills Productions has several projects in development for future New York productions. Morgan currently divides his time between Manhattan, Pinehurst, and wherever his work takes him.  He is a graduate of the Commercial Theatre Institute’s Advanced Producing Program and a member of Actors' Equity Association (AEA) and SAG-AFTRA.