Residencies & Commissions
#WithForAbout2020 Slow Conference
Granted a micro commission for the #WithForAbout2020 Slow Conference. Created a visual poem on life being born and growing up in England as a child of the ‘Windrush’ generation. The Mis-education of a Moonraker was featured in the live #WithForAbout session 4 available here:
Awards & Nominations
2005 As an author, editor and Director of Northamptonshire Black History Project I was pleased to be among the staff who won a national award from CILIP: Libraries Change Lives. The award was presented to proud staff and supporters by the poet Benjamin Zephaniah, and confirmed their belief that their work must go on once …
Home From Home – Commissioned play
Celebrating Liverpool’s Windrush generation From Liverpool City Council’s website – liverpoolexpress.co.uk. June 26, 2019 “Liverpool will premiere a major new play this week as part of a series of celebrations and reflections about the city’s Windrush Generation. Home from Home has been penned by city-based playwright Marjorie Morgan and looks at the turbulent recent events of …
Liverpool City Council Commission – A Play to Celebrate the City’s Windrush Generation
(From The Guide Liverpool https://www.theguideliverpool.com/liverpool-will-premiere-a-major-play-to-celebrate-citys-windrush-generation/ 26 June 2019) JUN, 26, 2019 LIVERPOOL WILL PREMIERE A MAJOR PLAY TO CELEBRATE CITY’S WINDRUSH GENERATION LIVERPOOL WILL PREMIERE A MAJOR NEW PLAY THIS WEEK AS PART OF A SERIES OF CELEBRATIONS AND REFLECTIONS ABOUT THE CITY’S WINDRUSH GENERATION. Home from Home has been penned by city-based playwright Marjorie Morgan …
Media
The Europeans – Black Europeans (Podcast)The Double NegativeCinema Femme The Women of Wakanda on VimeoSisters, Doing it for ThemselvesKenneth Branagh Awards – 2018Windrush Stories (Podcast)Liverpool Confidential – Is ‘Britishness’ still about skin colour?Liverpool Fringe 2019 (Review) – 24 hour play festivalRed PepperTranScripts – New WritingThe Mourning Bride (Review) – 2020In Other Words -2020WithForAbour2020 Slow ConferenceQueer …
Metal Culture Liverpool Residency 2019 -2020
Marjorie H Morgan is an award winning playwright, director and producer based in Liverpool. Her works explore the theme of ‘Home,’ in particular historic and contemporary migration stories, giving voice to those marginalised in British society. In 2018 she was shortlisted for the Kenneth Branagh Drama Writing Award for Let The Eat Cake, and has since …
Northern Broadsides Theatre Digital Squad – 2020
ONE of nine new commissions to create a short film that responds to the global Coronavirus pandemic of 2020. 10° of Separation How important are 10° in the Covid-19 pandemic? Discover Clinician Dr Areema Waqar’s public and social struggles with wearing her burqa change during the global pandemic. Reviews and feedback
Post-it: Independents Biennial Writers-in-Residence Book Publication 2018
Curated and written by a team of eight Writers-In-Residence, an original anthology of writing has been produced by eight diverse and boundary blurring writers. The writers were granted a residency which included free reign over the Independents Biennial venues and artists to build new stories, soundscapes and ideas. Independents Biennial 2018 was curated by Art …
Tow The Line – Commissioned by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust for BHM – 2020
Racism and mental health. What impact does racism have on a person’s mental health? What behavioural changes can make a positive difference? Discuss.
Writer-in-Residence – Independents Biennial 2018 at Tate, Liverpool
Curated and written by a team of eight Writers-In-Residence, working at the new Francis Ewe’s Publishing House On Seel Street as part of Independents Biennial 2018, a temporary reading room will lay the ground works for an original anthology of writing produced by eight diverse and boundary blurring writers. Between 20 August – 6 September …