The age of the reboot has come to Sacred Heart Hospital.
Scrubs, the beloved medical sitcom that ran for eight seasons on NBC and ABC for nearly a decade, is officially back with a brand new season that premiered on February 25.
Alongside fan favorite stars Zach Braff and Donald Faison reprising their iconic roles as J.D. and Turk, the 10th season features several newcomers, including Fordham Theatre’s own Amanda Morrow ‘22.
Morrow plays Dr. Dashsana Trainor, a confident, cocky, and fiercely loyal surgical intern. A natural talent, Morrow didn’t begin acting until age 16—and her star is rising fast. She’ll next be seen on screen as an employee of Runway magazine in the highly anticipated sequel to The Devil Wears Prada.
Amanda also happens to be a friend of mine. We met during my senior year at Fordham Theatre, when she was just getting started in the program. I caught up with her after the Scrubs premiere to find out how it feels to join the ranks of Rams in Hollywood.
Congrats my friend! You know Denzel Washington ’77 got a big break playing a doctor on TV—this is very Fordham of you.
I did not know that! That is such an honor. My next film will be Remember the Titans [laughs].
What was your relationship with Scrubs before? We were pretty young when it started airing.
When the first episode came out, I was probably one year old—maybe a little less than one. So I like to say that my first word was “scrubs.” I was born in a hospital, so it was obviously meant to be.
You had a lot to catch up on.
I did not know the show well, but I’d grown up with the iconography of those two characters, Turk and J.D. When I got the role, I binged the whole thing. It was very surreal to watch nine seasons of a show and then to go to work and see the same people that I had been watching all night long and be like, “Ah, you’re here. This is real.”
How does it feel to be part of something so beloved?
It’s an honor and it’s crazy. I feel like I was nervous coming into it, because the show is so iconic and people love these characters so much. We were on a ski trip and started talking about work, and the ski instructor was like, “Wait, Scrubs is coming back!? I love Scrubs!”
You got the part and started shooting pretty much right away. What was the process?
I had an in-person audition and a callback, then I had a producer audition a couple weeks later. I forgot that Zach Braff was going to be on that call. I opened my camera and I was like, “Ah! OK, be chill, be chill.” He laughed and that made me feel really good.
You said that the first person you told was your mom—and then you hung up on her?
My reps called me right as I told her the news, and I was like, “So sorry, Mom, one second, I got to call you back.” And I had to hang up. So I just left her with that news. She was over the moon for me and also so confused. I didn’t tell her I had even auditioned, because I didn’t want to jinx it.
But she got to come to Vancouver and meet everyone on set, and she came to the premiere with my sister, my dad, and my uncle. It was so fun. For them to be able to share in the celebration of that meant so much.
Do you feel like your experience at Fordham set you up to get here?
It definitely did. I learned so much at Fordham. I didn’t start acting until I was 16, so this was the first time I was involved in theater full time, all of the time, and it’s where I learned technique. It’s where I learned how to train and developed my taste.
Also, being in and of the city of New York, and being able to leave the campus and go see shows, with so many alumni on Broadway—that was all so informative for me becoming the artist that I am today. It’s a great community.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
