Morgan Lloyd Malcolm:Finding Your Process, Developing Your Voice
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- Date
- Time
- 12.30pm - 2.00pm
- Venue
- Shakespeare's Globe
- Type
- Masterclass
Join us for a Masterclass with Olivier Award-winning playwright, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm (Emilia, The Wasp, Dracula), at Shakespeare’s Globe, on finding your process and developing your voice as a writer.
Through exercises and discussion, Morgan will work with a group of members on building a writing practice, refining their voice, and identifying the stories only they can tell.
This workshop is ideal for playwrights and theatre-makers who are ready to deepen their craft and take ownership of their unique creative perspective.
LIMITED SPACES: this Masterclass has very limited spaces. To apply, click 'Express Interest' above, then apply for a space here. Deadline for applications: 11.59pm, Thursday 10 September.
Biography
Morgan was commissioned by The Globe to write Emilia which became a hit show in summer 2018 before transferring to the West End in 2019, winning three Olivier awards including Best Entertainment or Comedy Play. Her TV adaptation of Damage by Josephine Hart for Moonage, Gaumont and Netflix, starring Richard Armitage and Indira Varma aired in April 2023 with the title ‘Obsession’. She is currently developing further shows with Firebird Productions and BBC Studios.
Her recent plays include Dracula at the Lyric Hammersmith, Mum at Plymouth Theatre Royal and Soho Theatre in 2021, and When the Long Trick’s Over, which toured in 2022 after a run at the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich. Her next play will be Turn of The Screw at The Arcola in September 2026 then on tour regionally with Blackeyed Theatre until 2027.
She has worked extensively with Clean Break, a feminist theatre company working with women with experience of prison. Her commission Typical Girls, a play set in a women’s prison featuring the music of The Slits, ran at the Sheffield Crucible in 2021.
Morgan’s previous plays Belongings and The Wasp were both produced at the Hampstead Theatre and Trafalgar Studios. Belongings was shortlisted for The Charles Wintour Most Promising Playwright Award. The film adaptation of The Wasp premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in June ’24 and was released online in September ’24.
Morgan co-wrote the musical Cake with Tasha Taylor-Johnson and Jack McManus which toured the UK in early 2023 then a run in the West End in September 2023 and a run at The Other Palace in September 2024.
She has cowritten several comedy shows with her co-founded comedy group Trippplicate. She has cowritten four pantomimes for the Lyric Hammersmith and two community shows for the Old Vic New Voices. She has also solo written three Christmas shows; Robin Hood and Alice In Wonderland for Bolton Octagon and A Christmas Carol for The Rose Theatre Kingston. With Katie Lyons and LookLeftLookRight she has written several site specific immersive shows including You Once Said Yes and Above and Beyond.
She cofounded the theatre company Terrifying Women with Abi Zakarian, Sampira and Amanda Castro with the aim of creating more horror written by women for stages. Since 2020 they have produced seven horror shows of short plays in London and Cambridge.