Morgan Lloyd Malcom is a playwright and screenwriter. 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. Morgan is adapting three of her plays for film, including Emilia, and her adaptation of her play The Wasp is currently in post-production starring, Naomie Harris and Natalie Dormer and directed by Guillem Morales.

She is working on a number of TV projects.  Her previous 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 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. Her new play Mum ran at Plymouth Theatre Royal and Soho Theatre last autumn, with another new play for High Tide, When the Long Trick’s Over, which toured this year after a run at the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich.

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.

Morgan has co-written the musical Cake which toured the UK in early 2023 and did a limited run at the Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in September.  She is in development on another musical Coven which is due to go into production in 2024.

She cofounded the theatre company Terrifying Women, with Abi Zakarian, Sampira and Amanda Castro which focuses on women in horror and supports new writing.  They have so far achieved two sellout runs at the Golden Goose Theatre in 2021 and 2022 and will be doing a Halloween special on the 31st October in collaboration with Small Truth Theatre.