Where we started

ZOUNDS began in Summer of 2022 among a community of performers working a summer contract together. We wanted a space to create and explore with no strings attached, and that is how ZOUNDS came about.

Weeks of our actors and directors rehearsing & exploring culminated in a beautiful (sold out) public performance that was incredibly fulfilling & inspiring. This was only the beginning.

It's a pleasure to meet you

Zounds was created out of a recognition that this art form is on the cusp of change. Historically, the theatre has not and still is not a safe or inclusive space for many.

Most artists in this day and age are plagued with burnout, putting our mental health behind all else in order to make art. When artists are given the space to advocate for their needs and take care of themselves, the artistic results are exceedingly more meaningful, not just for audiences, but the creators as well.

The faces behind ZOUNDS

Morgan Davis (she/her)

is based in New York City and Nashville and holds a BFA in Theatre Performance from Belmont University. Her latest projects include producing and directing VoiceOver content for Quaver Ed (an education company located on Nashville’s Music Row), creating and writing a YouTube web series based on Romeo & Juliet called “This of Juliet.”

Previous credits include Lavinia in Titus Andronicus and Rosaline in Love’s Labour’s Lost at Island Shakespeare Festival, Secret Soldiers at Nashville Children’s Theatre, Elizabeth LaVenza in an original adaptation of Frankenstein at Studio Tenn, Juliet - Romeo & Juliet, Octavius - Julius Caesar, Lady Macbeth - Macbeth (Nashville Shakespeare Festival), Brooke - Noises Off and Marianne Dashwood - Sense & Sensibility (Nashville Repertory Theatre).

Mrs. Davis also works with the Nashville Shakespeare Festival and The Theater Bug as a text coach and teaching artist, and in 2019, completed intensive summer training with The Prague Shakespeare Company in the Czech Republic.

In her spare time, she enjoys collecting and learning more about bourbon, and getting lost around New York with her dog, Milo, and husband, Mitch.

Abigail Rhyne (she/her)

is a Brooklyn based actor, director, producer & writer working in TV, film and theatre. Some of her recent projects include directing & writing short film, The Globe Trotters, and producing various other theatre and film pieces as a co-founder of startup production company, Superposition House.

Previous acting credits include Bailey White in Amazon Studios/MGM’s On A Wing and A Prayer, Macbeth in Macbeth (Half Naked Shakespeare), Princess in Love’s Labour’s Lost and Le Bret in a brand new adaptation of Cyrano (Island Shakespeare Festival), Juliet in Romeo & Juliet (Nashville Shakespeare Festival), Beth in Little Women (Studio Tenn), and Sasha in The Communist Revolution (Ashland New Play Festival).

She holds a Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in Filmmaking & Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College & the British American Drama Academy.

She loves to crochet, read, shoot film photographs, and write with friends.