is a playwright, screenwriter and TV series creator and showrunner who has been described by as “Britain’s leading contemporary screen dramatist,” and about whom the publication wrote, “There is no one who works quite like him. Actually, there might be nobody who has worked quite like him in British drama since Shakespeare. He specializes in taking the lives of public figures, mingling the events and words of their lives with his own imaginings, and recasting it as drama that is as close to documentary as possible without actually being a docudrama.
” Morgan wrote the theatrical productions , which was on the West End in 2006 and Broadway in 2007; , which was on the West End in 2013 and Broadway in 2015; and , which was on the West End in 2023 and Broadway in 2024. He was also the screenwriter of TV films including 2003’s , 2006’s and 2010’s and theatrical films including 2006’s and , 2008’s , 2009’s , 2010’s and 2013’s . Most famously, he created, show-ran and wrote or co-wrote all 60 episodes that comprised the six-season landmark Netflix drama series .
That show, which unspooled between 2016 and 2024, has been described by as “perhaps the final offering of TV’s Golden Age” and by as “one of the most watched, argued over and influential creations in recent television history.” It was awarded 10 Emmys for its past five season and is now, for its sixth and final season, nominated for 18 Emmys, including best drama series and best writing for.