My Story - Morgan Sloane
Last Updated on 5/26/99

As some of you know, in high school I was very involved in drama and speech meets. But I promised my dad that when I went to the U of A, I would be a math major. However, sitting in the back of Mr. Alberding's AP calculus class at Catalina gave me the revelation that if, indeed, math was going to be my life, this is what it would look like. So, on a hot Tucson afternoon in September of 1968, I called my dad from the U of A drama department and told him I had found where I wanted to be. Dad took it bravely. And I've been involved in drama, in one way or another ever since.	30th Reunion Weekend, October, 1998
From 1972 to 1978 I worked in theatre in England - not as an actress (as an American actress I was little use in a repertory company) but in pursuit of my goal to be a director, which I achieved after working my way up the stage management ladder. I had an English husband, too, but we divorced when I came home to work in American theatre. Back in the states, I directed theatre in Seattle and New York while coming to the realization that, in the USA, it was getting harder and harder to make a living directing theatre. Even very successful directors in New York were desperate to get jobs directing soaps on TV. I knew it was time to change course, headed for Hollywood and the American Film Institute, and have been here ever since. I have a production company, am producing, writing and setting up my first feature directing job. Along the way I've worked as an assistant director on commercials (handed a bottle of water to Charles Barkley on a Nike commercial) and worked on documentaries for TV - THE NATIVE AMERICANS, THE WILD WEST - (I really know my way around collections of 19th century American photos. ) For ten years I've been in business with (and in love with) my writing partner, Michael Borden. We began our partnership by making a low budget movie that starred Campbell Scott - I wrote and Michael directed. And we soldier on through thick and thin. I began life as an army brat - itinerant, independent, dedicated to a cause. It carries on through my adult life. I've lived in as many towns as an adult as I did the child of a colonel. But Hollywood seems to have me in it's grip. This is where the movies come from. I guess I'll never get far from here. Oh, yes. I never liked the name Mary Ann - too many ways to spell it - officialdom shortened it to Mary A. - so at the age of 18 I changed it to Morgan and have fully become that person ever since - even to my mother.
	Morgan Sloane morgansloane@earthlink.net