Sebastian Morgan is a musician, singer, songwriter and actor who has an extensive career as an on-stage performer and also as an off-stage teacher, director, choreographer and show and press conference interpreter. A Fulbright Scholar in Theatre, Musical Theatre, Dance and overall Performing Arts, he was born to a mixed family background. He is son to a British father with a long line of British Army Officers behind him that trace back to the Raj in India, the middle ages in England and a blood relation to the Duke of Norfolk, and an Argentine-Spanish/Basque mother who is an Anthropologist and expert in Andean cultures.This interesting mix made Sebastian delve into Chinese Martial Arts from an early age and then veer towards dance, theatre performance and artistic visual expresion involving movement and sound. He is also a designer, having designed this and other eight websites, various logos and image concepts which you can see n the portfolio section.
Career Overview
2012 - present
Founder - Director of Blue Butterfly Media Ltd.
2008 - present
Founder - Lead singer/songwriter - Pianist at SHiFT, a four piece band from England with songs written to inspire people to look within and become more aware.
2006 - present
Founder - Director of Union Foundation, a registered charity dealing with human integration.
2001 - present
Founder and Concept Developer for The Rock Move project.
1986 - present
Chinese Martial Arts Instructor (Shao Lin Chuan and Yi Chuan). Sebastian has trained in Martial Arts for over 27 years and has given classes for over 20 years. He has trained people in Argentina, Chile, USA, Spain, Venezuela, Colombia and the UK. His students have ranged from kids to adults, security personnel, police officers and the military in different countries. He is also a Contemporary Stage Violence Choreographer and has choreographed contained and controlled violence scenes for theatre plays, TV productions and corporate events.
2008 - 2009
Played Heathcliff in a theatre production of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.
2006 - 2008
Concept Developer. Designed the initial concept for Amore Infinito as a worldwide CD launch that promotes the use of Pope John Paul II's poems as lyrics of songs in all genres of music. The CD was released by Deutsche Grammophon in 2008 featuring Placido Domingo, Josh Groban, Katherine Jenkins and Andrea Bocelli.
2004
Presenter in 'A Hungarian Saga'. Filmed in Budapest, this documentary shows a Hungarian family's struggle during the Second World War and the later Russian invasion and revolution.
2003
Acting coach for Argentina for the James L. Brooks auditions of the film 'Spanglish' with Adam Sandler.
2001
Composed, recorded and produced the music for 'Forbidden Games', the second novel by writer Liliana Vammalle. Since then, the novel has been translated to English and an audio book of it has been recorded where Morgan was invited to play one of the characters.
2000 - 2009
Recorded voice overs and narrations for industry videos and ads for Unilever UK, Symantec, ASORA and Microsoft, amongst others
2000 - 2009
Owned and managed 'Morgan Studios', a sound and music recording and editing studio.
1999 - 2009
Worked extensively as a teacher, a movement director and choreographer in many professional productions and also at schools with secondary school pupils introducing movement, sound and music to youngsters in their school years.
1999
Dancer/Actor at 'Swing You Sinners' Off Broadway, New York.
1998 - 2000
Disney Character Program in North East US including tours in New York and Connecticut.
1997 - 2007
Live show interpreter/performer at the Magic of David Copperfield Tour. Sebastian has performed Mr. Copperfield's voice in Spanish, live during the shows in Spanish speaking cities in Latin America and Spain. He has acted in more than 200 performances of seven different shows from Las Vegas and New York that he also translated and adapted. He has performed in theatres in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in Santiago, Chile, Monterrey, Mexico City and Guadalajara in Mexico, in La Coruña, San Sebastian, Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Zaragoza and Granada in Spain, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Caracas, Venezuela and Bogota, Colombia. He has also assisted in more than fifty press conferences and over a hundred interviews and one-on-ones for the international press, interpreting from Spanish to English and vice-versa, subjects related to Theatre, Art, Politics and General Interest.
1994 - 2008
Coordinator for the Disney Character Program for Latin America including tours in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay and Peru.
1992
Played Che Guevara in 'Evita'
1990 - 2006
Performed extensively as a singer, actor, dancer and/or musician in different productions in the US, Brazil and Argentina.
1990
Acted in 'Highlander II' with Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery and Michael Ironside.
1989
Played Judas in' Jesus Christ Superstar'.
Albums Recorded
1992 - 'Son of the Sun' (With Collin Andrews - Bromley South, London)
1998 - 'Jester, How to survive a King' (Astoria, New York)
2008 - 'SHiFT' (Buenos Aires - England)
Higher Education:
New York University (Songwriting and Composition - Greek Mythology in Art)
Circle in The Square (Acting)
Herbert Berghof Studio (Musical Theatre Performance - Contemporary Stage Violence)
Stephen Schwartz, ASCAP (Musical Theatre structuring and writing)
Saratoga International Theatre Institute (Suzuki Technique for Actors)
New Dance Group Arts Center (Contemporary Jazz - Stephen Harding)
Moira Chapman (Modern Jazz)
Marcela Sotelo (Jazz Dance)
Further Education:
St. Andrew's Scots School
Languages Spoken:
English, Spanish
Further Interests:
Photography, prone target shooting, arc welding, carpentry, cooking, motorcycles, travelling, driving