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

M.A. Journalism, The University of Montana

B.A. English Literature and French

Certificate: Acting Shakespeare, RADA (UK)

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

 

​A professional singer, actress, and producer with more than 20 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 teaches Voice & Text for the Actor at Dallas College, specializing in Shakespeare, scansion, and textual analysis.

 

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 to portray Patsy Cline by the Estate of 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@basicallybeethoven.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. As a performing artist, Jeff has felt the warmth of the lights at every major venue in the DFW area, and has had recordings broadcast on WRR 101.1 and WBEZ 91.5 (Chicago). 

As production & education manager for 501(c)(3) non-profit Basically Beethoven, Jeff produces free chamber music concerts around Dallas featuring other local musicians, and coordinates free education programming and lessons for several schools in the Dallas area – including Uplift Atlas Preparatory and David W. Carter High School.

A member of the International Society of Bassists, the American Federation of Musicians (Local 72-147), and Trekorda, Jeff is an in-demand musician across genres. Jeff regularly records, performs, and tours with singer-songwriter Bomethius, and is also principal bass of the Lone Star Wind Orchestra, a Dallas area wind ensemble. Along with his brother Joey Tullis, Jeff maintains the J Tullis Music duo, presenting jazz and popular duos across North Texas. Other engagements include the San Angelo Symphony, Fort Smith Symphony, Allegro Guitar Society, and Close No Circle, a new contemporary music ensemble.
Guitar, double bass, and electric bass lessons are available virtually (via Zoom or Discord) or in-person at Jeff’s home studio in Dallas. Jeff is a Richardson ISD private lesson teacher for the J. J. Pearce High School area.

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 the southwest, including Texas (DFW, Houston, Austin), Colorado (Fairplay, Breckenridge, Alma) and Arizona, as well as internationally in France, Italy, Switzerland, and England. Jeff received his bachelor’s degree in music performance from SMU, with a minor in arts management and entrepreneurship

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Contact: jeff@basicallybeethoven.org