Abi Morgan
Abi Morgan OBE (born 1968 in Cardiff ) is a British playwright and screenwriter .
Life
Abi Morgan comes from a theater family. Her partner Jacob Krichefski, with whom she has two children, is also an actor ; they live in London 's Crouch End .
Morgan studied acting and literature at the University of Exeter and the Central School of Speech and Drama . She has been writing screenplays for television since 1998. Her first play Skinned premiered in the provinces in 1998. The joint work Sleeping Around with Hilary Fannin, Stephen Greenhorn and Mark Ravenhill on Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen had the premiere on March 23, 1998 in London at the Donmar Warehouse and was performed in September 1998 at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden , the Deutsches Theater Berlin and the Deutsches Theater Göttingenplayed. In 2001 she had her first own premiere in London at the Hampstead Theater with Tender , for which she received a young talent award at the Laurence Olivier Award in 2002 . In 2011 she received the British Academy Film Award for best screenplay for the feature film Die Eiserne Lady .
On the occasion of the revival of the 2000 play Splendor in the fall of 2015 and the premiere of her film Suffragette , Morgan stated that a feminist point of view was also essential in contemporary British society.
Works (selection)
theatre
- Skinned (1997)
- Hilary Fannin; Stephen Greenhorn; Abi Morgan; Mark Ravenhill : Sleeping Around (1998) - Rowohlt Theater Verlag 1999, translation by Corinna Brocher and Dieter Giesing
- Fast Food (1999)
- Splendor (2000) - Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz (2002), Rowohlt Theater Verlag 2001, translation by Albert Lang
- Tiny Dynamite (2001) - Schauspiel Frankfurt (2002)
- Tender (2001)
- Monster Mum (2005)
- Fugee (2008)
- The Night is Darkest Before the Dawn (2009)
- Lovesong (2011)
- 27 (2011)
- The Mistress Contract (2014)
Filmography
- 1998: Peak Practice (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 2000: My Fragile Heart (TV movie)
- 2002: Murder (TV movie)
- 2004: Sex Traffic (TV movie)
- 2006: Tsunami - Die Killerwelle ( Tsunami: The Aftermath , TV movie)
- 2007: Brick Lane
- 2008: White Girl (TV movie)
- 2010: Royal Wedding (TV movie)
- 2011: Die Eiserne Lady (The Iron Lady)
- 2011: Shame
- 2011–2012: The Hour (TV series, creator)
- 2012: Birdsong - Singing from the Great Fire ( Birdsong , TV movie)
- 2013: The Invisible Woman
- 2015: Suffragettes - actions instead of words (Suffragettes)
- 2015: River (TV six-part)
literature
- Annette Pankratz: "Death is ... not": Representations of death and dying in contemporary British drama . Trier: WVT, Wiss. Verl. Trier, 2005 [treated by Morgan Splendor ]
Web links
- Literature by and about Abi Morgan in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Abi Morgan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Nigel Farndale: Abi Morgan interview , The Daily Telegraph , July 12, 2011
- ↑ Sleeping Around (Mark Ravenhill, Hilary Fannin, Stephen Greenhorn, Abi Morgan) , in: Gerd K. Schneider: "I want to see a bunch of falling stars rain down on me every day": on the artistic reception of Arthur Schnitzler's "Reigen" in Austria, Germany and the USA . Vienna: Praesens-Verl. 2008, pp. 94-96
- ↑ John Nathan, "I can't not be a feminist," in: Financial Times , July 25, 2015, p. 13
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morgan, Abi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British playwright and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cardiff , Wales, United Kingdom |