MORGAN GOULD

MORGAN GOULD IS MORGAN GOULD

TRADEMARK: Being "in charge." 

Morgan Gould is a writer/ director who has previously held staff positions at Playscripts, Inc., Lark Play Development Center, Cape Cod Theatre Project, and Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, where Morgan co-created UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW (BAC/PS 122) and worked alongside Young Jean on the premieres of LEAR (Soho Rep) and WE'RE GONNA DIE (Joe's Pub/ LCT3) and tours of PULLMAN WA and THE SHIPMENT. Since starting Morgan Gould & Friends in 2012, Morgan has created LOSING TOM PECINKA, PEE PEE POO POO PA PA FACE, THE GIRL WITH THE HONEY BEE EYES, WEIGHT OF THE WORLD, THIS BODY//MY BODY, SHREK: AN ADAPTATION, DOG EAT DOG, NURSE NORA MENORAH SAVES CHRISTMAS and HELIX, HELIX: The Science of You, Me, Us and Them (A Sloan Commission) and more. MG&F's work has been featured in and at the New Ohio/ Ice Factory Festival, Dixon Place, The Brooklyn Lyceum, HERE Arts Center, Ars Nova, CAP21, BAX, New Georges, and The Culture Project.

Morgan is a member at Ensemble Studio Theatre (where she recently directed Leah Nanako Winkler's KENTUCKY in a 2016 co-production with P73), a WP Theater Lab Member, a New Georges affiliated artist (where she was a participant in their emerging writer/ director lab from 2010-2014), an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, the Stage Director's & Choreographers Foundation Observership Program, the Target Margin Theater's Institute for Collaborative Theater Making, The Civilians R + D Group, and the Ensemble Studio Theatre and Playwrights Horizons Directing Residency Programs. She was an 11-12 BAX (Brooklyn Arts Exchange) AIR with playwright Matthew Paul Olmos and a 12-13 Space Grant Recipient. She was the winner of the 2016 Beatrice Terry/ Drama League Residency Award for her play  I WANNA F***ING TEAR YOU APART, which had its world premiere at Studio Theatre in Washington, DC in February 2017, starring MG&F members NIcole Spiezio, Tommy Heleringer, and Anna O'Donoghue, and with Morgan directing. Morgan is also a resident playwright at New Dramatists.

B.A. in Directing, Fordham College at Lincoln Center, M.F.A. in Playwriting, Brooklyn College. Morgan is currently in the playwriting program at Juilliard.

UPCOMING:

Morgan Gould & Friends inaugural film project THE LAST GREAT AMERICAN WEBSERIES is coming to a small screen near you in Winter 2018. Read about it here.

Morgan will direct Leah Nanako Winkler's GOD SAID THIS at the 2018 Humana Festival. Read about it here.

Morgan will direct Leah Nanako Winkler's TWO MILE HOLLOW at the 2018 WP Theater Pipeline Festival, produced by Sally Cade Holmes. Read about it here.

Morgan will direct the Bay Area Premiere of Young Jean Lee's STRAIGHT WHITE MEN at Marin Theatre Company in June 2017. Info here.

CONTACT: morgan@morgangouldandfriends.com

AGENT CONTACT: Rachel Viola, United Talent Agency, violaR@unitedtalent.com.