P. G. Morgan

P. G. Morgan
P. G. Morgan in 2017
Born Bangor, Wales
Spouse Marina Zenovich

Peter Gwynne Morgan is a television and film writer/producer living in Los Angeles, California. A winner of the 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming for his work on Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, he is married to American documentary director Marina Zenovich.[1][2]

Education

Morgan was born in Bangor, North Wales. He was educated at Henleaze School, Bristol and Penglais School, Aberystwyth, where he was a near contemporary of author Malcolm Pryce.[3] After school, Morgan won a scholarship to read Modern History at Worcester College, Oxford.[4] While at Oxford, Morgan was a regular contributor to "Isis" and also produced plays at the Oxford Playhouse and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. After graduating from Oxford in 1988 with an Honours degree in Modern History, Morgan obtained a postgraduate Diploma in Journalism from the University of Wales, College of Cardiff.[4]

Career

TV journalism

After a short stint on the Western Mail, Morgan joined ITN as a graduate trainee in 1989.[5] He worked as a producer for News at Ten and as a foreign affairs producer and on-screen reporter for Channel 4 News, covering stories such as the LA Riots, the Eritrean Civil War and the Troubles in Northern Ireland.[6]

During his time at Channel Four News, Morgan spent three years covering the conflict in the Former Yugoslavia, working closely with the late Gaby Rado.[7] Morgan was also part of the reporting team which won 1994 BAFTA and Amnesty International Awards for their coverage of the siege of Srebrenica.[8] During these years, Morgan also wrote regularly for The Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement,[9] the New Statesman, Index on Censorship[10] and the New Welsh Review.[11]

Writing

Between 2000 and 2005, Morgan worked simultaneously for ITN and for BBC Current Affairs, writing TV scripts and producing several drama documentaries.[12] His teen drama Spit Game was nominated for a BAFTA in 2004.[13] He also wrote episodes of Doctors and The Bill and over a dozen radio dramas,[14] for which he received the Richard Imison Award (for A Matter of Interpretation)[15] and a Sony Radio Academy Award nomination (for "Milosevic in Black and White").[16]

In 2002, Morgan published Fire Mountain:[17] a non-fiction account of the 1902 volcanic eruption of Mont Pelée in Martinique.[12] The book was published by Bloomsbury in the UK and the US and was subsequently adapted for Secrets of the Dead;[18] a drama documentary series produced by National Geographic.[19]

US work

In 2005, Morgan moved to Los Angeles. While in the US he wrote and produced several documentaries: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (winner of the 2009 Emmy for Best Writing in Non-Fiction Programming),[20] Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic,[21] Revenge of the Electric Car[22][23] and Fantastic Lies.[24]

Morgan has also worked as a series producer on two CNN series: The Eighties[25] and The History of Comedy[26] and was a story consultant on the Beatles documentary Eight Days a Week.[27] He was an Executive Producer on Flint Town,[28] a Netflix documentary series about the police department of Flint, Michigan. In 2018, it was announced that he would serve as an executive producer on Diagnosis, an eight part Netflix documentary series being produced in association with Scott Rudin, the New York Times and Lightbox.[29]

Morgan has written several feature film scripts and a TV pilot for Anonymous Content. His feature script Dear Norman Mailer was performed at the Hay Festival in 2015 by Tatiana Maslany and Tom Cullen.[30]

Personal life

Morgan is married to the American documentary director Marina Zenovich, daughter of former California State Senator George Zenovich.[31] The couple have a 12-year-old son and live in Venice, California.

Awards and nominations

Year Awards and Nominations
1989 Vogue Young Writers Award – Special Commendation
1995 BAFTA for Best International News Reporting (Channel 4 News Team)
1995 Amnesty International Award for International News (Channel 4 News Team)
1999 Richard Imison New Writers Award
2004 Sony Radio Academy Award, Drama Nomination
2004 BAFTA for Children's Drama, Nomination (Spit Game)
2008 Writers Guild Award (Writing Team, The Bill)
2009 Emmy for Best Writing, Non-Fiction Programming (Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired)
2013 NAACP Best Documentary (Omit the Logic)

References

  1. ↑ Variety staff (August 4, 2005). "Marina Zenovich and P.G. Morgan". Variety. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  2. ↑ "PG Morgan". emmyawards.com. Television Academy. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  3. ↑ "Malcolm Pryce". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  4. 1 2 "Peter Morgan at Netflix | Worcester College". www.worc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-10-12.
  5. ↑ "Fire Mountain – Peter Morgan – 9780747568438 – Allen & Unwin – Australia". allenandunwin.com. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
  6. ↑ Morton, Brian (February 13, 2003). "There's No Smoke Without Fire". Financial Times.
  7. ↑ "Paperbacks: Picasso: style and meaningGreenbackFire". The Independent. 2004-03-19. Retrieved 2017-08-19.
  8. ↑ "Television in 1994 | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
  9. ↑ "Letter from Burlington – TheTLS". www.the-tls.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-08-18.
  10. ↑ Morgan, Peter (1999). "Sale of the decade". Index on Censorship. 28: 175–180.
  11. ↑ Morgan, Peter (Summer 1997). "Unstable Identities". New Welsh Review. 37.
  12. 1 2 Morgan, Peter (2003). Fire Mountain: How One Man Survived the World's Worst Volcanic Disaster. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9780747556763.
  13. ↑ "Television in 2004 | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
  14. ↑ "The Friday Play: Milosevic in Black and White – BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
  15. ↑ "Prizes | The Society of Authors". www.societyofauthors.org. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
  16. ↑ Casarroto Rams & Associates. "P.G. Morgan" (PDF). Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  17. ↑ Morgan, Peter (2004-07-15). Fire Mountain (Large type ed.). Leicester: Ulverscroft Large Print Books. ISBN 9781843953562.
  18. ↑ "Amazon.com: Fire Mountain: John Shrapnel, Frances Berrigan: Amazon Digital Services LLC". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
  19. ↑ "snagfilms". www.snagfilms.com. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
  20. ↑ "Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired". Television Academy. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
  21. ↑ Hale, Mike (2013-05-30). "'Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic,' on Showtime". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-07-06.
  22. ↑ Carpenter, Susan (2011-10-16). "Chris Paine gets his "Revenge"". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
  23. ↑ "Revenge of the Electric Car | Our Films | Independent Lens | PBS". Independent Lens. Retrieved 2017-07-06.
  24. ↑ Lowry, Brian (2016-03-10). "TV Review: ESPN's 'Fantastic Lies'". Variety. Retrieved 2017-07-06.
  25. ↑ "CNN Returns to "The Eighties" with New Series From Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman Premiering Thursday, March 31, at 9PM ET/PT". Retrieved 2017-07-06.
  26. ↑ "2017 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE HISTORY OF COMEDY". what (not) to doc. 2017-01-17. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
  27. ↑ Genzlinger, Neil (2016-09-15). "Review: 'The Beatles: Eight Days a Week' Taking the World by Storm". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-07-06.
  28. ↑ "Netflix Grows Docuseries Lineup With 'Flint Town,' Ezra Klein-Produced Explainer Show (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
  29. ↑ Hipes, Patrick (2018-03-22). "Netflix Giving NYT Magazine's 'Diagnosis' Column The Docuseries Treatment". Deadline. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  30. ↑ "P G Morgan". www.casarotto.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
  31. ↑ "Remembering George Zenovich | Friends of the California State Archives". friendsofcalarchives.org. Retrieved 2017-07-01.

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