Morgan Green is a theater and film director

Morgan Green is a theater and film director and the Co–Artistic Director of the Tony Award–winning Wilma Theater in Philadelphia. Her work was most recently seen at LCT3 at Lincoln Center, where she directed Five Models in Ruins, 1981 by Caitlin Saylor Stephens.

Her production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s The Comeuppance was named the #1 play of 2024 by the Washington Post and received Barrymore Awards for Best Play and Best Ensemble.

In 2024, she won an Obie Award for her collaboration on Milo Cramer’s School Pictures, which was also named the #1 show of 2023 by New York Magazine.

Morgan directed the Pulitzer Prize–winning filmed production of James Ijames’s Fat Ham, selected as a New York Times Critics’ Pick. She previously won Best Director at the Innovative Theater Awards for New Saloon’s Minor Character (2017).

Her short film One More Time With Feeling premiered at the Raindance Film Festival in London in 2023.

She is a current Drama League TV Directing Fellow, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a proud member of SDC.

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