The Comeuppance by Branden Jacobs Jenkins at Woolly Mammoth September 2024 and The Wilma Theater November 2024
School Pictures by Milo Cramer at Latte Da Theater in Minneapolis February 2025
Morgan Green
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Wilma Theater wins Special Tony Award for Regional Theater
ArtNet: Inside the New Opera Reimagining the Singular Life of Hilma af Klint:
The theatrical work also serves as a fine counterpoint to af Klint’s approach, [Director Morgan] Green pointed out. She noted how the painter created work for “an audience in the future” since the early 20th century had yet to catch up to her brand of abstraction. “And in the theater, the mandate is that you’re making work for people in the room. Theater demands that we’re in the present together—it’s immediate,” she said.
Morgan Green on surprising yourself, interview in the Creative Independent
Vulture’s Sara Holdren on HILMA:
A meta-meditation that breaks the theatrical container.
There’s a formal riskiness to the show, along with a sincere and infectious sense of wonder.
Philadelphia Row Home A Vibrant and Musical Look at the Art of Hilma af Klint
It turns out, Hilma, as a stage production, is gorgeous and bright and just wild in a great way. Imagine bits of Suffs, Jesus Christ Superstar, I think I got a hint of Jonathan Larson, and even some Dreamgirls…and Rocky Horror? You’ll see, because if you know me personally, I won’t let you miss this performance.
‘Staff Meal’ Review: Abe Koogler’s Play of Piquant Flavors by Charles isherwood
The cast, under the admirably sharp focus of the director, Morgan Green, is uniformly excellent.
‘Staff Meal’ Offers Seven Courses of Tasty Disorientation
It takes an exceptional director to get her arms around Koogler’s dark whimsy and deliver it intact yet still crackling, and the prodigious Morgan Green succeeds beautifully.
HELEN SHAW ON STAFF MEAL FOR THE NEW YORKER
Morgan Green’s hallucinatory production relies heavily on the gonzo performer Erin Markey, as a shadowy vagrant who is also, somehow, the restaurant’s faceless backer
School Pictures on This American Life with Ira Glass!
School Pictures named Vulture #1 Performance of the Year 2023
Cramer has the students, tutors, and teachers rapt from basically their first sentence (“Charlotte is in seventh grade; she wants to be an actress”) and certainly from the fourth (“Charlotte has radical dramaturgical ideas”).
New York Times Review of School Pictures
The setup, a pseudo musical, has Mr. Cramer wailing funny songs that tell the stories of individual, fictionalized students accompanied by a ukulele and, at one point, a toy piano.
Fat Ham named Best Theater of 2021 by the New York Times
Green’s production, originally planned for the stage, is soft too — in a good way. Though it is nearly a full-fledged movie, it still feels….handmade and fuzzy at the edges. Especially important here is that it remains theatrical in its long-line construction (the whole play is essentially one scene) and in the way it adapts the original’s soliloquies as direct address to the camera. In those moments, with the actors peering out as if to find us, the frame becomes a proscenium.
American Theater Magazine on the Wilma Theater’s Next Chapter
American Theater Magazine on New Saloon’s Minor Character
It was also grand to see the frothy meringue Minor Character again, especially since this weirdo version of Uncle Vanya, from ensemble New Saloon, has gotten even better since it was in Brooklyn last year. Under the careful direction of Morgan Green, the company inverts the idea of “double casting” by having performers triple up to simultaneously perform a single role.
The New York Times on New Saloon’s Minor Character
The New York Times on New Saloon’s Cute Activist
The New York Times on The Music Man
This was the most amusing and thought-provoking version of “The Music Man” I had seen in ages, often unpretentious despite its pretensions, cleverly costumed and full of new ideas.
American Theater Magazine on Sharon Playhouse Director driven delivery
