Robert Morgan

2 Roseneath Gardens,Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6C 3X6

Phone: 416-652-7981 Fax: 416-652-6620

E-mail:robert@childrenspeacetheatre.org

• Playwright, Actor, Director, Producer

• Artistic Director, Children's Peace Theatre

• Founding Artistic co-Director, Roseneath Theatre

Robert Morgan has helped to establish Canada as one of the world's foremost producers of theatre for young audiences. He has written more than twenty professionally produced plays, many of which have toured nationally and internationally and he has acted in and directed over forty productions. He has won the prestigious Chalmers Award for outstanding play writing six times and four of his plays have won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for best production. His work has received a total of ten Dora nominations and has been performed around the world.

In 2001, Robert became the founding Artistic Director of the Children's Peace Theatre. In its first two seasons, the Peace Theatre involved more than one hundred children and young people in an active program of training, workshops and performances. In his role as Artistic Director, Robert delivered two official presentations to the United Nations in New York at the 2002 Special Session on the Children of the World. The work of the Peace Theatre is part of a global movement reflected in the United Nations declaration that 2001-2010 is the decade for the establishment of a culture of peace for the children of the world.

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Prior to his work with the Peace Theatre, Robert formed Roseneath Productions in 1986 with David S. Craig in order to produce and tour his solo show Morgan's Journey. The play, which has become the longest running touring play in Canadian history, has been called a Children's classic and the company, which incorporated as Roseneath Theatre in 1993 has established an international reputation for producing plays of the highest quality for audiences of all ages.

Robert has planned, produced and presented large theatrical events nationally and internationally, most recently a celebration for more than 16,000 people at Lourdes, France. He produced and directed The Circus of the Heart with a cast of over 150 performers, co-produced and co-wrote One Heart at a Time presented at the Winter Garden and Markham Theatres in Toronto with a cast of 60, and officially thanked Mother Teresa when she spoke in Toronto. In the summer of 2000, Robert was invited to Belfast to direct a play he co-authored, A Time for Magic for an international festival of the arts for children. He has prepared and performed at youth events across Canada, given workshops and made many appearances as a keynote speaker.

Robert has been a strong advocate for arts in education, continually committed to bringing performances to schools so that all children, particularly those who would not otherwise have the opportunity are able to experience live theatre.  He continues to perform in prestigious venues and festivals throughout North America and the UK, (he has played The Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Kennedy Centre, The Lyric Hammersmith in London and appeared at international festivals in Toronto, Philadelphia, Seattle, Anchorage, Yellowknife, Belfast, Halifax and Edinburgh , to name a few.) However, Robert continually welcomes opportunities to perform in remote areas, which to date has included schools in all of the provinces and territories, prisons, churches, synagogues, Northern Cree communities on the shores of the James and Hudson Bay, Alaskan Villages on the Arctic Ocean and a one-room school in Black Tickle, Labrador.

A detailed resume is available upon request.