Morgan Gould (Director)

Morgan is currently in the playwriting program at Juilliard, a New Dramatists resident playwright, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a 2017-18 Dramatists Guild Playwriting Fellow, and the Artistic Director of Morgan Gould & Friends – her theater company with ten actors, four designer-producers, and a filmmaker (morgangouldandfriends.com). Her play I Wanna Fucking Tear You Apart won the 2016 Beatrice Terry/Drama League Award and premiered in 2017 at Studio Theatre in DC (with Morgan directing), where it was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play. This is Morgan’s fourth full-length collaboration with Leah Nanako Winkler, having directed the premiere of Kentucky in 2016 in NYC at EST with P73, Two Mile Hollow at The Women’s Project’s Pipeline Festival, as well as the World Premiere of God Said This at Actors Theatre of Louisville/Humana Festival and too many ten-minute plays to name. Other directing credits include work at Marin Theatre Company, Ars Nova, The Flea, New Georges, and more. Brooklyn College (MFA, Playwriting). Proud graduate of Fordham University (BA, Directing). Many thanks to Leah, P73, EST, Humana, Primary Stages, and my amazing Kentucky family for their loyal collaboration through this epic multi-year journey.