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词条 Abi Morgan
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Writing career

     Theatre  Television  The Hour  Film 

  3. Personal life

  4. Selected works

     Plays  Film screenplays  TV screenplays 

  5. References

  6. External links

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Abi Morgan, OBE (born 1968) is a Welsh playwright and screenwriter known for her works for television, such as Sex Traffic and The Hour, and the films Brick Lane, The Iron Lady, Shame and Suffragette.

Early life

Morgan was born in Cardiff, Wales.[1] She is the daughter of actress Pat England and theatre director Gareth Morgan, who was director of the Gulbenkian Theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne (now the Northern Stage). Her parents divorced when she was a teenager and her childhood was spent moving around the country while her mother acted in repertory theatre; she told The Scotsman in 2010 that she had attended seven separate schools during her childhood.[2] Her sister is the fundraiser at London's Unicorn Theatre.[3]

After initial ambitions to become an actress herself, she decided to become a writer while reading drama and literature at Exeter University.[4] She then took a postgraduate writing course at the Central School of Speech and Drama.[3]

Writing career

Theatre

Having dared not to show any of her writing "to anyone for five years", her first professional stage credit was in 1998 with Skinned at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton. She has written plays for the Royal Exchange Studio Theatre Manchester, the Royal Lyceum Theatre, the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, the National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Court, London.[5] Her 2001 play Tender for the Hampstead Theatre gained her a nomination as "most promising playwright" at the 2002 Laurence Olivier Theatre Awards.

Television

Morgan gained her first television writing credit in 1998 on the continuing ITV drama series Peak Practice, following that with a television play My Fragile Heart (2000) and a BBC2 drama Murder in 2002, starring Julie Walters.[3]

She was commissioned to write the single drama Sex Traffic for Channel 4 in 2004, about a teenage girl trafficked from the Balkans to Britain. This drama, directed by David Yates, won the 2005 BAFTA award for Best Drama Serial. She has since written a number of single dramas for television including The Aftermath (2006), White Girl, part of White (2008) and Royal Wedding (2010), which follows the 1981 Royal Wedding through the perspective of events held in a small Welsh mining village. Her television work also includes writing Birdsong, a two-part television adaptation of Sebastian Faulks's novel of the same title.

Morgan wrote the legal drama The Split, about the private and professional lives of divorce lawyers, first shown on BBC1 in April 2018.

The Hour

Morgan's first continuing drama series was The Hour (2011), set in a BBC newsroom during the 1956 Suez Crisis. It was commissioned for a second series,[4] but cancelled after the second series was transmitted, its ratings having been one quarter lower than the first.[1] In 2013, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Dramatic Special for The Hour,[1] having also been nominated in 2012.[6]

Film

Morgan has also written for cinema: her 2007 adaptation of Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane was critically acclaimed, but created controversy – some Brick Lane Bengalis labelled the film "defamatory" and a planned royal film performance was cancelled.[3] Her next film was The Iron Lady, which starred Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, closely followed by a smaller-budget production, Shame, co-written with Steve McQueen.[4] Her work on The Iron Lady earned her a BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay nomination,[7] while her work on Shame earned her a BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film nomination. She has said that she always puts one line from her last film in her next film.[8]

Personal life

Morgan lives in North London with her husband, actor Jacob Krichefski, and their two children, her son Jesse and daughter Mabel.[9]

Morgan was awarded an OBE in the 2018 Birthday Honours.

Selected works

Plays

  • Skinned (1997)
  • Sleeping Around (1998) – co-written with Mark Ravenhill, Stephen Greenhorn and Hilary Fannin
  • Fast Food (1999)
  • Splendour (2000)
  • Tiny Dynamite (2001)
  • Tender (2001)
  • Monster Mum (2005)
  • Fugee (2008)
  • Chain Play – Production II – co-written with Neil LaBute, Mike Poulton and Tanya Ronder
  • The Night is Darkest Before the Dawn (2009), as part of Afghanistan
  • Lovesong (2011)
  • 27 (2011)
  • The Mistress Contract (2014)[10]

Film screenplays

  • Brick Lane (2007)
  • The Iron Lady (2011)
  • Shame (2011)
  • The Invisible Woman (2013)
  • Suffragette (2015)

TV screenplays

  • My Fragile Heart (2000)
  • Murder (2002)
  • Sex Traffic (2004)
  • The Aftermath (2006)
  • White Girl, part of White (2008) – with Hettie Macdonald, won the TV Spielfilm Award at the Cologne Conference
  • Royal Wedding (2010)
  • The Hour (2011)
  • Birdsong (2012)
  • River (2015)
  • The Split (2018)

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/writer-abi-morgan-last-laugh-6079338|title=Writer Abi Morgan has last laugh at the Emmys|author=|publisher=Wales Online|date=23 September 2013|accessdate=23 September 2013}}
2. ^Aidan Smith, Interview: Abi Morgan, screenwriter, The Scotsman, 4 May 2010.
3. ^Maggie Brown, [https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/2011/abi-morgan-cometh-the-hour/ Abi Morgan: Cometh the hour], The Stage, 15 July 2011.
4. ^Nigel Farndale, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8623286/Abi-Morgan-interview.html Abi Morgan interview], Daily Telegraph, 12 July 2011.
5. ^List of theatrical works, Doollee.com
6. ^Emmys.com
7. ^{{cite news|title=Bafta Film Awards 2012: Nominations|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16590913 |accessdate=17 January 2012 |date=27 March 2012|work=BBC News}}
8. ^{{cite web | url = http://guru.bafta.org/abi-morgan-meets-bola-agbaje-guru-encounters | title = Abi Morgan meets Bola Agbaje {{!}} Guru Encounters | date = 7 October 2015 | website = BAFTA Guru | access-date = 13 October 2015}}
9. ^{{cite web|last1=Lewis|first1=Helen|title=Abi Morgan on Suffragette: “These were voiceless women. We gave them a voice”|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/film/2015/10/abi-morgan-these-were-voiceless-women-we-gave-them-voice|website=New Statesman}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/the-mistress-contract|title=The Mistress Contract at The Royal Court Theatre|author=|publisher=The Royal Court Theatre|date=|accessdate=13 September 2013}}

External links

  • {{IMDb name|0604448}}
  • Theatre credits
  • [https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/apr/09/abi-morgan-taliban-play The Guardian]
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9 : Living people|1968 births|British dramatists and playwrights|British screenwriters|Alumni of the University of Exeter|British women dramatists and playwrights|British women screenwriters|Primetime Emmy Award winners|Writers from Cardiff

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