Founding Co-Artistic Director, Speech of Fire Theatre Company
Former Artistic Director, Seoul Shakespeare Company
Actor, Voice Actor
Shakespeare Text Coach
Theatre Producer, Director, Designer
Student in Korean Traditional Music and Dance
English (EFL) Instructor
Location: London, UK (with right to work)
Nationality: American
Creative Producing & Designing
King Lear
Seoul Shakespeare Company
Director
Producer
Costume Design and Construction
Set Design and Construction
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer; Musical Composition, Arrangement, & Direction
Video Editor
Company Artistic Director
May 18-June 2, 2019
Theater Egg and Nucleus, Daehangno theatre district, Seoul, South Korea
Directed and Produced by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Costume, Set, Sound, and Lighting Design by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Musical Composition/Arrangement/Direction by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Fight Choreography by Jason Cutler
Blood effects by Amanda Conkey
Seoul Shakespeare Company presents Shakespeare's masterpiece, King Lear.
The final production for our Artistic Director, producer, and actor Lauren Ash-Morgan and regular stage director and actor Michael Downey, after nine years with the company.
Show Page: https://www.seoulshakespearecompany.org/king-lear-2019
(This show was videorecorded and will eventually be available.)
Much Ado About Nothing
Seoul Shakespeare Company
Producer
Costume Design and Construction
Set Design and Construction
Sound Designer; Musical Composition, Arrangement, & Direction
Video Editor
Company Artistic Director
Teaser Trailer
Much Ado About Nothing (헛소동)
May 21 - June 5, 2016
Theater Egg and Nucleus, Daehangno theatre district, Seoul, South Korea
Directed by Michael Downey
Produced by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Costume, Set, and Sound Design by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Musical Composition/Arrangement/Direction by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Lighting Design by Iain C. Culp
"This year's production, Much Ado About Nothing, goes in a brand new direction for our company. In our tradition of alternating between tragedy and comedy, we are swinging the pendulum in the opposite direction from the dark, technically complex Titus of last year to bring audiences a lively, warm, fast-paced, playful experience, with a design and style reminiscent of Elizabethan stage practice."
Full show video
First Half: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmfuqKGcm-s
Second Half: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqOsBtM5b3k
Show Page: https://www.seoulshakespearecompany.org/much-ado-about-nothing-2016
The Winter's Tale
Seoul Shakespeare Company
Producer
Costume Design and Construction
Set Design and Construction
Sound Designer; Musical Composition, Arrangement, & Direction
Video Editor
Company Artistic Director
Teaser Trailer
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The Winter's Tale (겨울 이야기)
April 15-30, 2017
Theater Egg and Nucleus, Daehangno theatre district, Seoul, South Korea
Directed by Michael Downey
Produced by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Costume, Set, and Sound Design by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Musical Composition/Arrangement/Direction by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Lighting Design by Iain C. Culp
Shakespeare's late masterpiece of reconciliation and forgiveness.
One of Shakespeare’s greatest plays: the tragi-comedy and late romance play The Winter’s Tale—a story of jealousy, loss, redemption, forgiveness, and reunion.
In a production that both builds upon and contrasts with the innovations of last year’s Much Ado About Nothing, director Michael Downey brings us two contrasting mythicized worlds of a stark, melancholic, and tragic Sicilia and a joyful, pastoral, comedic Bohemia, and a story that moves from the coldness of winter to the warmth and hope of spring.
(The full video will eventually be available.)
Show Page: https://www.seoulshakespearecompany.org/up-next-the-winter-s-tale
The Orderly
Speech of Fire & Seoul Shakespeare Company (2019)
(Originally produced by The Rebel Alliance Theatre Company, and then
produced by Probationary Theatre Company at the White Box Theatre in 2013)
Producer (2019 production)
Director (2019 and 2013 productions, based on original direction by Anders Falstie-Jensen)
Lighting Designer (2019 production, based on original lighting design by Bonnie Burrell)
Lighting and Sound Operator
Video Editor (video forthcoming)
Company Artistic Director
Original trailer (2007),
by The Rebel Alliance Theatre Company
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The Orderly
October 13-20, 2019 (Speech of Fire & Seoul Shakespeare Company co-production of Garage and The Orderly in rep)
(Originally produced by The Rebel Alliance Theatre Company, and then
produced by Probationary Theatre Company at the White Box Theatre in 2013)
Studio SK, Daehangno theatre district, Seoul, South Korea
Written and performed by Michael Downey
Directed and Produced by Lauren Ash-Morgan
"Hospitals are battlefields."
Mind must be the firmer,
heart the more fierce,
courage the greater,
as our strength diminishes.
More information on Speech of Fire's performance repertoire page:
https://www.speechoffire.org/performance-repertoire
2019 Show Page: https://www.speechoffire.org/the-orderly-2019
(This show was videorecorded and can be available upon request.)
Garage
Speech of Fire & Seoul Shakespeare Company (2019)
Seoul Shakespeare Company (2017)
Producer
Lighting Designer (2019 only)
Blood effects designer
Sound Designer (with Michael Downey)
Video Editor
Company Artistic Director
Teaser Trailer
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Garage (차고)
October 13-20, 2019 (Speech of Fire & Seoul Shakespeare Company co-production of Garage and The Orderly in rep)
October 14-22, 2017 (Seoul Shakespeare Company)
Studio SK, Daehangno theatre district, Seoul, South Korea
Written by Jason Cutler and the members of Dive Theatre
Directed by Michael Downey
Produced by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Sound Design by Michael Downey and Lauren Ash-Morgan
Lighting Design by Megan Hammond (2017), Lauren Ash-Morgan (2019)
Blood effects by Lauren Ash-Morgan
"This here's an arena."
An original, raw, intimate, and uncompromising piece of contemporary theatre.
More information on Speech of Fire's performance repertoire page:
https://www.speechoffire.org/performance-repertoire
2019 Show Page: https://www.speechoffire.org/garage-2019
2017 Show Page: https://www.seoulshakespearecompany.org/garage-oct-14-22-2017-eng
(This show was videorecorded and can be available upon request.)
The Merchant of Venice
Seoul Shakespeare Company
Producer
Costume Design and Construction
Set Design and Construction
Sound Designer; Musical Composition, Arrangement, & Direction
Video Editor
Company Artistic Director
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The Merchant of Venice (베니스의 상인)
April 28, 29 May 5, 6, 12, 13, 2018
Theater Egg and Nucleus, Daehangno theatre district, Seoul, South Korea
Directed by Michael Downey
Produced by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Costume and Set Design by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Musical Composition/Arrangement/Direction by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Lighting Design by John Campbell
"Thou shalt have justice more than thou desirest."
Seoul Shakespeare Company presents William Shakespeare's deceptively complex play The Merchant of Venice, exploring the themes of mercy and revenge, prejudice and power, trust and betrayal, and appearance and reality.
Show Page: https://www.seoulshakespearecompany.org/the-merchant-of-venice-2018
(This show was videorecorded and will eventually be available.)
Love and Despair:
Scenes from Shakespeare
Seoul Shakespeare Company
Producer
Costume & Set Design
Partial Sound Design; Musical Composition
Video Editor
Company Artistic Director
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Love and Despair: Scenes from Shakespeare
Program 1: Macbeth (plus a bit of The Tempest)
November 28-29, 2015
Program 2: Hamlet & Othello (plus a bit of Titus Andronicus and The Tempest)
December 5-6, 2015
Camarata Music Company Studio, Haebangchon, Seoul, South Korea
Using direction from our original productions, with some new direction by Lauren Ash-Morgan and Michael Downey.
Othello scenes directed by Raymond Salcedo.
Produced by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Lighting Design by Iain C. Culp
Sound Design by Brian MacQueen and Lauren Ash-Morgan
For SSC's 5-year anniversary, we have gathered some of our most prominent actors to revive favorite scenes from our past productions and to explore some new scenes from Othello, focusing on the relationship arcs of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, Hamlet and Gertrude, Laertes and Ophelia, Othello and Desdemona, and Trinculo and Stephano in an intimate, bare-bones style production.
(There is no show page for Love and Despair, but videos can be found in SSC's Video Archive and photos in SSC's Photo Archive.)
Titus Andronicus
Seoul Shakespeare Company
Producer
Costume Design and Construction
Video Editor
Company Artistic Director
Teaser Trailer
Titus Andronicus (타이투스 안드로니쿠스)
May 30 - June 14, 2015
Theater Egg and Nucleus, Daehangno theatre district, Seoul, South Korea
Directed by Raymond Salcedo
Produced by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Costume Design by Lauren Ash-Morgan
Lighting Design by Iain C. Culp
Sound Design by Brian MacQueen
Set Design by David Spadaccini
Fight Choreography by Patrick Foley
"A brutal but beautifully poignant play."
We are preparing our fifth mainstage production, Titus Andronicus, which is our most ambitious project to date. With this production we aim to attract larger general audiences and to become more widely recognized as a resource for Shakespeare in Korea.
Full show video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LfvLKgx_Ik
Show Page:
https://www.seoulshakespearecompany.org/titus-andronicus-2015