ABOUT

Morgan Reid, Director - Opera Division at Dean Artists Management, first joined the agency in 2021 as an administrative associate, and then artist manager, before her appointment to division director in 2024.

Reid joined the 2024 cohort of Opera America’s Leadership Launch program, receiving mentorship from industry mentors from across North America. 

Reid has appeared as a panelist and invited guest with Opéra de Montréal’s Atelier Lyrique, the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble, the young artist programs of Utah and Vancouver Opera, COSA Canada’s Summer Vocal Intensive, Brott Music Festival, Highlands Opera Studio, Opera Kelowna’s Valley Opera Summer Intensive, NATS Ontario, and the University of Toronto.

She served on the 2023 planning committee for the Association for Opera in Canada’s inaugural Ontario Roundtable, and was named one of their 2022 Women of Impact in Opera. In the 2020-2021 season, Morgan was selected as an inaugural RBC Future Launch/LINK Emerging Artist Fellow with the Association for Opera in Canada.

She has held administrative positions with the University of Toronto Voice Studies Area, COSA Canada, and the Highland Arts Theatre. In the same vein, Morgan has thrived in stage and production management roles in both opera and music theatre since 2015. A lover of a good spreadsheet, she has used these experiences to absorb as much knowledge as she can from the inside, building skills in grant writing, marketing & communications, scheduling, and general administrative acumen.

Morgan works as a freelance social media manager and consultant for arts organizations and creatives across Canada. Morgan has cultivated this toolkit since 2020 when she expanded this portfolio of work. She adores working with clients to find their ideal branding language, while facilitating curation of content and visibility on social media channels including Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and more. Learn more here.

Morgan is a graduate of Mount Allison University (B.Mus. Voice) and the University of Toronto (M.Mus. Voice Performance). She has served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Voice and Composition faculties at the University of Toronto, and in Music History at Mount Allison University. Morgan is grateful for the wide range of educational opportunities that have been available to her, including studying musicology, composition, and art history in her undergrad; to intensive vocal pedagogy and anatomy, performance psychology, and interpretative performance analysis in her graduate studies. She feels fortunate to draw from these studies in her day-to-day work.

She has been honoured with the Richard March Graduate Fellowship and Arthur Plettner Graduate Fellowships (U of T, 2020-2023), the J.E.A. Crake Graduating Student Award in Performance (MtA, 2018), Ruth Goldbloom Award in Performing Arts (2017), the Mary McKean Scholarship for Outstanding Student Leadership as chosen by Faculty (MtA, 2017), Robert and Margaret Fleming Award for Promise in Music Composition Studies (MtA, 2017), the May T. Walshman Award for Promise in a Career in Voice Performance (MtA, 2017), and many scholarships for both academic and musical excellence at both institutions. She thanks the Nova Scotia Talent Trust and the Art Song Foundation of Canada for their support during her early development.