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Abi Morgan
Abigail Louise Morgan OBE (born December 1968) is a Welsh playwright and screenwriter known for her works for television, such as Sex Traffic and The Hour, and the films Brick Lane, The Iron Lady, Shame and Suffragette.
Abigail Louise Morgan was born in Cardiff, Wales, in December 1968. She is the daughter of actress Pat England and theatre director Gareth Morgan, who was director of the Gulbenkian Theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne (now the Northern Stage). Her parents divorced when she was a teenager. As a child, she frequently moved around the country with her mother because of the latter's career in repertory theatre. She attended seven separate schools during her childhood.
After initial ambitions to become an actress, Morgan decided to become a writer when she was reading drama and literature at Exeter University. She took a postgraduate writing course at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Having not dared to show any of her writing "to anyone for five years", she gained her first professional stage credit in 1998 with Skinned, produced at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton. She has written plays for the Royal Exchange Studio Theatre Manchester, the Royal Lyceum Theatre, the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, the National Theatre of Scotland, and the Royal Court, London.
Her 2001 play Tender, commissioned by Birmingham Rep Theatre and co-produced with the Hampstead Theatre, gained her a nomination as "most promising playwright" at the 2002 Laurence Olivier Theatre Awards.[citation needed]
Morgan gained her first television writing credit in 1998 on the continuing ITV drama series Peak Practice, following that with a television play My Fragile Heart (2000) and a BBC2 drama Murder in 2002, starring Julie Walters.
She was commissioned to write the single drama Sex Traffic for Channel 4 in 2004, about a teenage girl trafficked from the Balkans to Britain. This drama, directed by David Yates, won the 2005 BAFTA award for Best Drama Serial. She has since written a number of single dramas for television including Tsunami: The Aftermath (2006), White Girl, part of White (2008) and Royal Wedding (2010), which follows the 1981 Royal Wedding through the perspective of events held in a small Welsh mining village. Her television work also includes writing Birdsong, a two-part television adaptation of Sebastian Faulks's novel of the same title.[citation needed]
Morgan's first continuing drama series was The Hour (2011), set in a BBC newsroom during the 1956 Suez Crisis. It was commissioned for a second series, but cancelled after the second series was transmitted. The second series had lower ratings, although it was praised by critics. In 2013, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Dramatic Special for The Hour; she had been nominated for that same award in 2012, after the first series.
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Abi Morgan
Abigail Louise Morgan OBE (born December 1968) is a Welsh playwright and screenwriter known for her works for television, such as Sex Traffic and The Hour, and the films Brick Lane, The Iron Lady, Shame and Suffragette.
Abigail Louise Morgan was born in Cardiff, Wales, in December 1968. She is the daughter of actress Pat England and theatre director Gareth Morgan, who was director of the Gulbenkian Theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne (now the Northern Stage). Her parents divorced when she was a teenager. As a child, she frequently moved around the country with her mother because of the latter's career in repertory theatre. She attended seven separate schools during her childhood.
After initial ambitions to become an actress, Morgan decided to become a writer when she was reading drama and literature at Exeter University. She took a postgraduate writing course at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Having not dared to show any of her writing "to anyone for five years", she gained her first professional stage credit in 1998 with Skinned, produced at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton. She has written plays for the Royal Exchange Studio Theatre Manchester, the Royal Lyceum Theatre, the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, the National Theatre of Scotland, and the Royal Court, London.
Her 2001 play Tender, commissioned by Birmingham Rep Theatre and co-produced with the Hampstead Theatre, gained her a nomination as "most promising playwright" at the 2002 Laurence Olivier Theatre Awards.[citation needed]
Morgan gained her first television writing credit in 1998 on the continuing ITV drama series Peak Practice, following that with a television play My Fragile Heart (2000) and a BBC2 drama Murder in 2002, starring Julie Walters.
She was commissioned to write the single drama Sex Traffic for Channel 4 in 2004, about a teenage girl trafficked from the Balkans to Britain. This drama, directed by David Yates, won the 2005 BAFTA award for Best Drama Serial. She has since written a number of single dramas for television including Tsunami: The Aftermath (2006), White Girl, part of White (2008) and Royal Wedding (2010), which follows the 1981 Royal Wedding through the perspective of events held in a small Welsh mining village. Her television work also includes writing Birdsong, a two-part television adaptation of Sebastian Faulks's novel of the same title.[citation needed]
Morgan's first continuing drama series was The Hour (2011), set in a BBC newsroom during the 1956 Suez Crisis. It was commissioned for a second series, but cancelled after the second series was transmitted. The second series had lower ratings, although it was praised by critics. In 2013, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Dramatic Special for The Hour; she had been nominated for that same award in 2012, after the first series.