{"id":25722,"date":"2019-03-18T12:12:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T16:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=25722"},"modified":"2019-07-09T09:31:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T13:31:07","slug":"utc-grad-lands-recurring-role-on-popular-this-is-us-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/utc-grad-lands-recurring-role-on-popular-this-is-us-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"UTC grad lands recurring role on popular &#8216;This Is Us&#8217; drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25729\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"714\" data-attachment-id=\"25729\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/utc-grad-lands-recurring-role-on-popular-this-is-us-drama\/maury\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/03\/maury.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"750,714\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"maury\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/03\/maury.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-25729\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/03\/maury.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/03\/maury.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/03\/maury-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/03\/maury-580x552.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/03\/maury-610x581.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/03\/maury-210x200.jpg 210w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/03\/maury-420x400.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maury Morgan is playing Liz, the dance studio owner, on the March 19 and April 2 episodes of &#8220;This Is Us&#8221; on NBC.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Even though she\u2019s been an actor for more than 20 years and knows how things work behind the scenes, Maury Morgan still gets choked up when she watches the hit TV show \u201cThis Is Us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou kidding me? I can\u2019t watch that show without tissues,\u201d says Morgan, who graduated from UTC in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Tears still flow and tissues still get soaked even though Morgan has landed a recurring role on the family drama as Liz, the owner of a dance studio. In fact, the new job had her crying even harder when was given the script for the episode that airs at 9 p.m. Tuesday night on NBC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust reading the script, I was sobbing,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>If you plan to watch the episode, \u201cgo to Costco and get the big thing of tissue,\u201d she advises.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan, who came to Chattanooga from Pulaski, Tennessee, was seen briefly \u2014 briefly as in the final few seconds \u2014 in the Feb. 19 episode, but her role expands in two shows that wrap up Season 3, the one that airs Tuesday and the finale on April 2.<\/p>\n<p>The job is an extra layer of frosting for Morgan because she has been a fan of the popular family drama since the first season in 2016 , she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was blown away. It\u2019s one of the best shows I\u2019ve ever seen, at least in a long time. I loved it,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan went through the usual multiple-audition gauntlet for \u201cThis Is Us,\u201d then put it in the back corner of her mind because that\u2019s what you do as an actor. If you sit and fret \u2014 \u201cDid I get the part? Did I get the part?\u201d \u2014 you\u2019ll drive yourself crazy.<\/p>\n<p>It was a few weeks later while she was on a plane that she got the news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI forgot to turn my phone off and at 30,000 feet a text came through that said, \u2018Did you get the email about \u2018This Is Us?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She opened her laptop, checked her email and there it was: The role was hers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a seasoned, jaded person and I was shrieking out loud,\u201d she recalls. \u201cEverybody was looking at me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She originally came to Chattanooga to earn a degree in accounting with a minor in economics at UTC. Her heart was in acting, but that wasn\u2019t going to fly with her parents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy parents had a very strict idea of what college should be. A drama degree was not their idea of what college was about,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>To appease them, before she left for UTC she had to promise that she would get a college degree in something besides drama. A few semesters in, though, she realized a career in accounting \u201cwasn\u2019t going to happen,\u201d so she switched to mass communications \u2014 and had to go back to her parents and promise again that she would earn a degree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to renew my vows,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>But she never gave up the dream of being a full-time actor and took several drama courses at UTC, including classes with professor Camille Hallstrom, who taught Introduction to Performance and Introduction to Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCamille was such a wonderful, vivid presence for me,\u201d Morgan recalls. \u201cShe was an incredibly passionate, dedicated and very serious woman about drama and how actors should approach work. She was an incredible example that you could be so excited about this and make it into your life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hallstrom helped cement her determination to pursue acting as a career, Morgan says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt that point, I knew what I wanted to do, but everybody from where I\u2019m from was asking, \u2018When are you going to get a real job?\u2019 I was always hiding that light under a bushel basket. I had to kind of conform until I was on my own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hallstrom, who now teaches at Covenant College, says she is &#8220;delighted&#8221; at Morgan&#8217;s success.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is an encouragement to me\u2014and I hope to current and future students\u2014that you need not necessarily major in this area to discover and develop a talent in it,&#8221; Hallstrom says. &#8220;I am delighted for her (and by extension &#8216;us!&#8217;) and pray for her success, dignity and joy in what, as we know more and more with each passing news cycle, can sometimes be a pretty gritty work world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Morgan eventually graduated from UTC with a bachelor\u2019s degree in mass communications and headed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to pursue acting. The city might not be seen as an acting mecca like New York, she admits, \u201cbut I wasn\u2019t brave enough for New York.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eventually she worked up her courage, though, and hit the acting world in the Big Apple and did what almost all newcomers do \u2014 took whatever jobs she could land. But she was living in Manhattan on 9\/11 and says she simply couldn\u2019t stay there after that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike anybody who was in Manhattan, it was a searing experience,\u201d she recalls. \u201cI needed a breather from tall buildings and things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She found breathing room in Colorado, where she stayed until 2006 before taking the plunge and moving to Los Angeles. But finding work in LA was even harder than New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s more opportunity, but 10 times the competition,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, you have to be \u201cTeflon-coated,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think everyone in this business, even some stars, have gone to the top then found themselves with long periods of \u2018I can\u2019t find a job.\u2019 It\u2019s a cyclical business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe key to that is just being interested in life and really loving what you do and having the commitment to see it through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She doesn\u2019t know whether she\u2019ll return for Season 4 on \u201cThis Is Us\u201d; that\u2019s one of the realities of being an actor. Your fictional life \u2014 and real-life paycheck \u2014 is in the hands of writers.\u00a0And just being part of \u201cThis Is Us,\u201d in whatever amount they give her, has been worth it, she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just another acting job, simply because of the people who work on the show,\u201d she says. \u201cThe environment there is exactly what people who watch the show would think it would be. It\u2019s warm; it\u2019s inclusive; it\u2019s enjoyable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maury Morgan, who graduated from UTC in 1995, has a role on two upcoming episodes of &#8220;This Is Us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/utc-grad-lands-recurring-role-on-popular-this-is-us-drama\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1105,"featured_media":25729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123864,61,4866,3,8244,64,12776],"tags":[83464,83465],"class_list":{"0":"post-25722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-advancement-and-alumni","8":"category-college-of-arts-sciences","9":"category-communication","10":"category-community","11":"category-honors-and-awards","12":"category-news","13":"category-theatre-speech","14":"tag-maury-morgan","15":"tag-this-is-us","16":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UTC grad lands recurring role on popular &#039;This Is Us&#039; 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