Morgan Green has been a theater nerd for as long as she or anyone in her family can remember. She initially wanted to be an actor, but after not getting cast as The Witch in Into the Woods in fifth grade, she began thinking about ways to develop her good taste and unflappable personality professionally. She now directs plays, musicals, and films, resolved to breathe joy, spontaneity, and humor into the heaviest subjects, i.e. death. With enormous gratitude to her inimitable mentor, director JoAnne Akalaitis, and her illustrious friends Milo Cramer and Madeline Wise, she spent a decade inventing plays in illegal spaces, making Chekhov relevant to millennials, and adhering to the downtown creed of including a dance number in every show. She now co-leads The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, recipient of the 2024 Regional Theatre Tony Award and current artistic home. Other cherished collaborations include HILMA, a new opera by Kate Scelsa, composed by Robert M. Johanson, choreographed by Lisa Fagan (The Wilma Theater); Staff Meal by Abe Koogler (Playwrights Horizons); Eternal Life Part 1 by Nathan Alan Davis (The Wilma Theater); and The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe (Marin Theater Company). Fortuitously, while finishing film school at Brooklyn College, the premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fat Ham by James Ijames unexpectedly pivoted from a staged production to a film due to COVID, and Morgan directed it on location in long takes, ranging from 7 to 35 minutes. Morgan has also made a few short films, which have been featured at the Raindance Film Festival in London and can be found on the internet. She is a proud member of SDC and an Affiliated Artist at New Georges.