Morgan Brown Sanborn is originally from Standish, Maine. She is currently a member of City Ballet of Boston, a freelance artist, as well as the Director of Dirigo Conservatory of Movement in Biddeford, ME. She has previously danced with The Florida Ballet, North Atlantic Dance Theatre, Teatrul Balet de Sibiu of Romania, Nevada Ballet Theater, and Portland Ballet Company of Maine.
Sanborn is a magna cum laude BFA dance graduate of Point Park University and a graduate of the Portland Ballet of Maine CORPS program under the direction of Eugenia O’brien and Daielma Santos-Decker. Her training includes summer intensives at American Ballet Theatre, Festival Ballet of Providence, Point Park University, and Boston Conservatory.
Sanborn's recent featured roles include Lilac Fairy in Gianni DiMarco’s Sleeping Beauty. Snow Queen, Vine, and Spanish Soloist in Anthony William’s Urban Nutcracker. Soloist in Gianni DiMarco’s The Gathering and Danse Macabre. Arabian Soloist in Linda MacArthur Miele’s Nutcracker, Persian Princess in Miele’s Cinderella. Carmen’s Alter Ego in Roberto Forleo’s Carmen, Christoph Garcia’s Death of the Maiden, Nikiya in La Bayadere, Mercedes in Don Quixote, Hermia in Forleo’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Glove Seller in Forleo’s Gaîté Parisienne. Soloist in Linda MacArthur Miele’s Souvenir, Fairy Godmother in Roger VanFleteren’s Cinderella, Dew Drop and Sugarplum in FLB’s Nutcracker, Fokine’s Le Spectre de la Rose, Dying Swan, and Prelude in Les Sylphide, as well as Joseph Morrissey’s Suite for Strings.
Her choreography has been presented by City Ballet of Boston, Florida Ballet, Portland Ballet, Penta Project, Dean College, Franklin Performing Arts Company, Florida Ballet School, South Shore Ballet Theatre and many more.
Morgan has over 20 years of teaching experience and is currently an ABT® Fellowship teacher, who has successfully presented students for ABTNTC examinations for three consecutive years. Sanborn has completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Primary through Level 5 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum. She is also certified in Pilates Mat & Apparatus through The Kane School and certified in levels 1 & 2 of Progressing Ballet Technique.