Meet the Artist

        Morgan McDonald is an LA based theater artist. Her background, while mainly in acting, also entails stage management, playwriting, producing, and directing. She is recent graduate from the MFA Acting program at California Institute of the Arts. Recent acting work include Rosaline in Love’s Labour’s Lost,  the title role in Medea, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, The Mistress in Jimmy Jenkenhiemer, and the Lead Female in both Spoon River Anthology and 4.48 Psychosis. She has directed and produced her own original work and worked in stage management for numerous shows including for Guards at the Taj, The Overcoat, and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. 

        As an artist, she hopes to focus on work that is truthful to the human experience, exploring the deep inner lives of everyday people. Her goals are to continue to work on projects that give voices to those that are often silenced. She’s found a home exploring this through work ranging from Shakespeare to modern experimental theater. She considers herself not just an actor but a theater artist because as she says “I’ll do it all, I just like theater.” While her background is strong in theater, she has a strong desire to begin her journey in film, broadening the ways in which stories can be told and the different audiences the medium reaches. 

Outside of her artistic pursuit Morgan is a Teaching Artist with the LA based nonprofit Michael’s Daughter Foundation. In this role Morgan works teaching a an animation program at juvenile detention centers in LA County. She has a strong belief in art’s ability to shape young lives and enjoys working with youth to envision bigger and better futures for themselves through their storytelling. Morgan also works for the World Central Kitchen, a nonprofit dedicated to feeding those affected by natural disasters and humanitarian crises. Morgan also enjoys hiking, cooking, thrifting, and playing scrabble.