M.F.A. Classical Acting, The George Washington University

M.A. Journalism, The University of Montana

B.A. English Literature and French

Unions: Actors' Equity Association (AEA); SAG-AFTRA

 

​A professional singer, actress, and producer with more than 25 years of experience both onstage and behind-the-scenes, Morgan has sung professionally from New York to LA, from Sondheim to Patsy Cline. For five years, she was Executive Director, then Producing Artistic Director, of a state-of-the-art media center with a $1M budget, and co-founded her own classical theater company and academy with her husband on Long Island, producing several Equity Shakespeare productions, including Hamlet, which she adapted and directed, at Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY.

 

Morgan is the granddaughter of American Art Song Composer John Duke ("Loveliest of Trees", "i carry your heart"), and manages his catalog of 265 arts songs in collaboration with Smith College. She has been deeply involved in Arts Education, as a theater or musical theater teaching artist or as an arts administrator, for more than 15 years, and has worked and taught at professional theaters across the U.S. She is a staunch believer that quality arts education is necessary to create empathetic citizens, and that learning the classics (music, theater, or fine art) is the bedrock of most great contemporary art and artists. A native New Yorker, Morgan moved to her husband’s hometown of Dallas in 2021. She is learning to speak Welsh.​

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Voice Instruction: Julie Andrews & Anne Runolfsson (musical theatre); Adrienne Auerswald (classical voice); Spider Saloff (jazz)

 

Professional credits (sample): Woman #2 in Side by Side by Sondheim (Los Angeles), Margie in Good People, Brooke in Other Desert Cities with Hampton Theatre Company, Lady Macbeth with Round Table Theatre in New York. She is an officially sanctioned “Patsy Cline” and performed as Patsy on tours and resident productions of Always, Patsy Cline and A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline. She was twice the featured soloist at the Hamptons' famous Artists vs. Writers softball game, and sang alto the professional choir at St. Luke's East Hampton.

 

Voiceover: Numerous local radio and tv spots; National: voice for the Wii UDRAW tutorial.​

 

Contact: morgan@fineartschamberplayers.org
 

B.M. Music Performance, SMU

 

Jeff Tullis is a musician, teacher, and arts manager based in Dallas who is equally at home on-stage and backstage. Jeff specializes in booking solo or ensembles, in any genre, for private events and for public concerts.

 

As production manager for FACP/ Basically Beethoven), Jeff coordinates free chamber music concerts around Dallas featuring other local musicians. A member of the International Society of Bassists and the American Federation of Musicians (Local 72-147), Jeff is an in-demand musician across genres. Jeff regularly records, performs, and tours with singer-songwriter Bomethius (Chicago). Jeff is also principal bass of the Lone Star Wind Orchestra, a Dallas-area wind ensemble. Jeff is a Richardson ISD private lesson teacher at J. J. Pearce High School and Parkhill Junior High.

 

Jeff's arrangements and transcriptions have been commissioned by the 4 Strings Attached string quartet, SMU Symphony Orchestra, musicians from the Dallas Opera Orchestra and Dallas Symphony, Flamenco Fever ensemble, and the Jamal Mohamed World Music Ensemble. As a bassist and guitarist, Jeff has performed across Texas, including Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Denton, Paris, Plano, and San Angelo, as well as internationally in France, Italy, Switzerland, and England. 

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Contact: jeff@fineartschamberplayers.org