William Morgan Sheppard
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Morgan Sheppard is an accomplished and versatile theatre actor and director.- In 1963 Morgan was one of 400 actors who auditioned for Peter Brook and The Royal Shakespeare Company. Only 4 places were open that season. This was the beginning of a twelve-year association as an Associate Artist with the RSC. Morgan has appeared in over 100 plays over the years and was fortunate enough to have been directed by Peter Brook, Sir Peter Hall, Sir Trevor Nunn and other renowned directors.
Morgan’s more notable stage appearances include “Sly” in “The Taming of the Shrew”, “Pistol” in “Henry V”, and “Bolingbroke” in “Richard II”. He toured with the RSC in Japan, Australia, Europe and the United States, appearing on Broadway in Peter Brook’s “The Marat-Sade”, and Clifford Williams “Sherlock Holmes”. Morgan was nominated for “best supporting actor” for his performance in “Gorky’s “Lower Depth’s”.
Since 1975, Morgan has been in over 60 movies, more than a dozen movies-of-the-week, and has made over 80 TV appearances.
He has worked with such acclaimed directors as Sir Richard Attenborough, Peter Brook, Michael Mann, David Lynch, Ridley Scott, Ron Maxwell, Michael Bay, Christopher Nolan in such films as “The Prestige”, “Transformers”, “Marat-Sade”, “The Elephant Man”, “The Duellists”, “Wild at Heart”, “Star Trek VI”, “Gettysburg”, “Needful Things”. TV performances have included roles in ‘Shogun”, “Masada”, “A.D.”, “Flame Trees of Thika”, as well as “Quantum Leap”, “American Gothic”, ”Seaquest SDV”, ”Star Trek Voyager”, “Jag”, “Frasier” and notably “Babylon 5”, and the series that brought him to the United States from Ireland – “Max Headroom”.
Morgan has directed productions at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, The Coast Playhouse, The Fountainhead Theater, and The Lillian Theater, and currently teaches acting at the Vincent Chase Workshop in Hollywood. In the US, Morgan won both the LA Drama Critics Circle Award and a Drama-Logue Critics Award for his 1995 performance in “the Homecoming” at the Matrix Theater.
Morgan Sheppard trained at R.A.D.A (1956 -58) then 12 years with the R.S.C., where he trained further with Peter Brook, John Barton and Cicely Berry. Later in New York in 1966, Morgan audited the Actors Studio, and studied with Vera Soloviova who insisted that he start teaching, as that was the only way he could answer the questions he was still asking. He is still asking.