PERFORMER

BIOGRAPHY

Comfortable in both operas and musicals as well as in comedic or dramatic roles, Steven Morton is recognized as a generous and dynamic performer with a bright and dreamy, lyric tenor voice. His stage craft and musical prowess has been developed through numerous roles on and off the stage in addition to choral work, including three years as the director of Fresh Blend a cappella.

Steven is passionate about learning what makes effective theatre. He cares deeply about clear and meaningful storytelling as well as high quality, entertaining performances and production value.

Steven currently performs as a church soloist, teaches privately, and can be seen on stage with a variety of theatre companies in Calgary. His critically acclaimed, award-winning one-person show, "Drag Me to the Opera," has toured to 7 cities in four provinces across Canada, racking up 50 performances.

EXPERIENCE

MUSICAL THEATRE

Soldier 8
Christopher Belling
Fake Santa/Mr. Greenway
Mr. Brunner/Chiron/Hades
Dragon

Giuseppe Zangara

Clopin

Host/Featured Performer

Vittorio Vidal/Herman/Ens.

NPC/Heral/Various

Ensemble

Amos Calloway

Jacob/Pharaoh

Mr. Banks

Jimmy Powers

Prof. Callahan

Jimmy Monettie/Ensemble

Piragüero

Wallace Hartley/John Thayer

Pontius Pilate

Marius

Noah

King Maximillian

Fabrizio Naccarelli

The Baker

Featured Soloist/Ensemble

Farmer Pal

Gideon

White Rabbit

Snoopy

Simeon/Joseph U.S.

Gilbert Blythe

Bill Jukes

OPERA/CLASSICAL

Poisson
Tenor Soloist

First Philistine

Don Ottavio

Tenor Soloist

Queen of Hearts/Alice's Father

Big Bill Haywood

Marco Palmieri

Don Basilio/Don Curzio

Chorus

Ferrando

King Kaspar

Don Basilio/Don Curzio

Don Basilio

Nanki-Poo

Frederick

Chorus

*Prepared Roles*

Nemorino

Tamino

Tenor Soloist

PLAYS

Lord Aster/Ensemble
Lisandro

Tom Davenport

Orcus

Alistair Spenlow

Charlie the Gorilla

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TABLE

Director

Lyricist - Joint Creator

Playwright

Playwright-Songwriter

Playwright

Director

Lyricist - Joint Creator

Music Director

Playwright

Music Director

Director

Music Director

Composer-Lyricist

Music Director

OTHER SKILLS

Languages (other than English):

Dance courses taken

Instruments:

Hobbies:

All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914
Curtains
Elf: the Musical
The Lightning Thief
The Paper Bag Princess

Assassins (semi-staged Concert)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

MisCAST

Sweet Charity

Off the Beaten Path (Reading)

Billy Elliot

Big Fish (semi-staged Concert)

Joseph and the … Dreamcoat

Mary Poppins

City of Angels

Legally Blonde

NYC Meets YYC (Revue)

In The Heights (Concert)

Titanic (Concert)

Jesus Christ Superstar

Les Misérables

Children of Eden

R&H Cinderella

The Light in the Piazza

Into the Woods

Wonderful Town

Chickens

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Alice in Wonderland

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Joseph and the … Dreamcoat

Anne of Green Gables

Peter Pan

Adriana Lecouvreur
Mozart's Vespers

Samson & Delilah

Don Giovanni

Opera Disrupted! (3 new works)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Annie Davidson (touring)

The Gondoliers

Le Nozze di Figaro

Moby Dick (Canadian Premiere)

Aida

The Inventor (World Premiere)

Manon

Cosí Fan Tutte

Amahl and the Night Visitors

The Marriage of Figaro

Le Nozze di Figaro

The Mikado

The Pirates of Penzance

Les Contes D’Hoffmann

Romeo et Juliet

L’elisir D’amore

Die Zauberflöte

Handel’s Messiah

Peter and the Star Catcher
Sueño de una Noche de Verano

Inherit the Wind

She Kills Monsters

Move Over Mrs. Markham

Free

Seussical

The Good Death

Drag Me to the Opera

A Part of Myself - Musical

A Part of Myself - Play

VP or Die (with Cowtown Opera)

A Cowtown Christmas

Ticket to Love

Legally Blonde

The Drowsy Chaperone

Outspoken

The Addams Family

Awesome Allie First Kid Astronaut

Mary Poppins Sing-along

Thoroughly Modern Millie

My Life is a Musical

Godspell

FAME

Spanish (fluent), German, French, American Sign Language (ASL)

Ballroom (Latin/Swing), Ballet, Jazz, Hip-hop, Diva, Irish Step, Tap

piano (Gr.6 RCM), flute, saxophone, guitar, trumpet, tambourine, ukulele, recorder

gardening, animal flow/locomotion, calligraphy, cycling, collage art, drag

Rosebud Theatre
Storybook Theatre
Storybook Theatre
Storybook Theatre
Storybook Theatre

Storybook Theatre

Cappuccino Musical Theatre

Storybook Theatre

Brown Cow Collective

Independent (Tory Doctor)

Theatre Calgary

Storybook Theatre

Front Row Centre Players

The CAST Program

Cowtown Opera Company

Storybook Theatre

Front Row Centre Players

Lethbridge Symphony

University of Calgary Operetta

Lethbridge Symphony

University of Lethbridge

Lethbridge Symphony

Carriage House Theatre

Storybook Theatre

Calgary Concert Opera
Bow Valley Chorus

Calgary Concert Opera

Cowtown Opera Company

Morpheus Theatre

Lyric Opera Studio Weimar

Calgary Opera

Lyric Opera Studio Weimar

University of Lethbridge

Okanagan Vocal Arts Festival

University of Lethbridge

Okanagan Vocal Arts Festival

Calgary Opera

Storybook Theatre
Gato Negro Teatro en Español

Simply Theatre

Morpheus Theatre

Urban Stories Theatre

Bert Church Live Theatre/Nose Creek Players

Flourish Musical Theatre Workshop

Independent (Fringe)

Independent

Urban Stories Theatre

HPR 10 Minute Play Fest

Cowtown Opera Company

The CAST Program

Urban Stories Theatre

The CAST Program

Storybook Theatre

Cowtown Opera Company

The CAST Program

SAIT Film Department

The CAST Program

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2012

Training & Workshops

Morpheus Theatre | Playing Shakespeare (Mar 2017) | Iam Coulter

Anthony Meindl Acting Workshop | On Camera Intensive (Feb 2017) | Anthony Meindl

Lyric Opera Studio Weimar | Marriage of Figaro (Aug 2012) | Damon Nestor Ploumis

Lyric Opera Studio Weimar | Cosi Fan Tutte (July 2008) | Damon Nestor Ploumis

Victoria Conservatory of Music | Summer Vocal Academy (July 2007) | Various Instructors

Okanagan Vocal Arts Festival | The Mikado (July 2006) | Edette Gagne/Damon Nestor Ploumis

Okanagan Vocal Arts Festival | The Pirates of Penzance (July 2005) | Frank Klassen/Deborah Overes