[3] After graduating college, Morogiello worked for two years as house manager for Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, an experience that he used as fodder for some of his plays and stories.
[4] In 1990, Morogiello married high-school sweetheart Elizabeth Kemmerer and moved to Maryland, where he began to find success as an actor, playwright, and dramaturg.
His adaptation of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi received its world premiere at the Wyldcliffe Center for the Arts in New Rochelle, NY courtesy of Sacred Clown Theater.
[5] In 1996, Morogiello was awarded a Kennedy Center Fellowship of the Americas to develop his Civil War drama Chancellorsville in Toronto and was named "Best Up and Coming Playwright" by Baltimore Magazine.
[8][9] Based on the success of Irish Authors Held Hostage, Morogiello began a regular relationship with Oldcastle Theatre Company in Bennington, Vermont and Abingdon Theatre Company off-Broadway, where his plays Engaging Shaw, Blame It On Beckett, Civilizing Lusby, Play Date were developed and/or produced under the direction of Eric Peterson and Jackob G. Hofmann.
His comedy The Consul, The Tramp, and America's Sweetheart won the 2015 Julie Harris Playwright Award Competition and the Dayton Playhouse FutureFest.
[13] He has regularly taught playwriting to students at Potomac, Chevy Chase, Bells Mill, Somerset, Clearspring, and Villa Cresta Elementary Schools.