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 at New World Stages and the Davenport Theatre.

On Broadway, Morgan was a producer of the Tony Award 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.

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 co-founded Judson Theatre Company in Pinehurst, NC (2012-25), where he served twelve seasons as JTC’s Executive Producer. JTC was the resident professional theatre company at Bradshaw Performing Arts Center. The company received NC Theatre Conference's 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 produced 36 shows including: 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 and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, both 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 (Grease 2, Empire Records, Dynasty); Butterflies are Free with Morgan Fairchild (which he also directed); Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Nile; and finally Love Letters again in 2025, starring Patrick Duffy (Dallas, Step by Step) and Linda Purl (The Office, Happy Days). JTC’s Summer Theatre Festival (2022-25) performed in BPAC’s McPherson Theatre. For the festival, Morgan produced Gutenberg! The Musical!; Buyer & Cellar; tick, tick…BOOM!; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; The Year of Magical Thinking (with Linda Purl), The Last Five Years, They’re Playing Our Song, Mrs. Mannerly (with Linda Purl), Tell Me on a Sunday, I Do! I Do! and Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear Louise.

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. He has inaugurated multiple programming series and turned the proscenium space into a favorite stop for professional touring groups. Among the acts he has booked into BPAC: Paul Reiser, Shaun Cassidy, Sheena Easton, 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, The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Alonzo Bodden, Rondell Sheridan, Becky Robinson, and Klea Blackhurst. Beginning in 2022, BPAC has been the winner of the annual “Best of the Pines” - Best Performing Arts Venue.

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 (2022), Butterflies are Free (2024), and Mrs. Mannerly (2024).

Under the banner of his first theatre 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.

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 though he no longer performs, he remains a member of Actors' Equity Association (AEA) and SAG-AFTRA.