Morgan Steele from Los Angeles, California, first moved to Ireland in 2017
A California n woman in Dublin : ‘Ireland’s not perfect, but I do think as a whole it is moving in the right direction’, as part of her degree. “I think it was only about five weeks, and it just kind of sparked something that ended up changing my life, which is kind of crazy,” says the theatre administrator and producer. “When I went into it, I definitely didn’t think that’s what was going to happen. But I fell in love with the place. And I’ve kept coming back.
She came back to live here for a year in 2017 on a working holiday visa . Funnily enough given current events, she applied for that visa the day before the 2016 US election, thinking she would “have something good to look forward to if all hell breaks loose. And I had the best of times.” She worked with independent producer Landmark Productions as assistant company manager on its stage musical Once.
Back in the US again, Covid hit and she lost her company manager job at Berkeley Repertory Theater. “Blessings in disguise, I suppose.” Pondering her future, “I kept thinking, I want to go back to Ireland.” She applied for an MSc in business management at‘The US has become really divisive. I definitely prefer the quality of life here. I like the people and the possibilities’
While LA is “a car-centric culture”, she says, “I love being able to walk here. And a functional public transit system.” For her personally, “a large part of the quality of life is the arts community”, and she’s heartened by “the mere fact that there is an Arts Council”. Such support and development of the arts “is foreign to me, in a way, as an American”. Arts agencies aren’t “as robust by a long shot back home”.
While inefficiency and red tape involved in getting things done here can be frustrating, “I think the longer I’ve lived here, the more I understand it. In a way, sometimes the inefficiency has its own charm.” The first example that comes to mind is thesystem: scheduled buses often “just don’t show up. When that happens, it is incredibly frustrating. But there’s something darkly comedic about it.
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