Morgan Lloyd Malcolm  is a playwright and screenwriter. 

Morgan was commissioned by The Globe to write Emilia which became a hit show in summer 2018 before transferring to the West End in 2019, winning three Olivier awards including Best Entertainment or Comedy Play.

Her TV adaptation of Damage by Josephine Hart for Moonage, Gaumont and Netflix, starring Richard Armitage and Indira Varma aired in April 2023 with the title ‘Obsession’. She is currently on the BBC Spotlight scheme developing a new drama series with BBC Studios. 

Her stage adaptation of Dracula is due to be produced in September 2025 at the Lyric Hammersmith.

She has worked extensively with Clean Break, a feminist theatre company working with women with experience of prison. Her commission Typical Girls, a play set in a women’s prison featuring the music of The Slits, ran at the Sheffield Crucible in 2021. Her recent plays include Mum at Plymouth Theatre Royal and Soho Theatre in 2021, and When the Long Trick’s Over, which toured in 2022 after a run at the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich. 

Morgan’s previous plays Belongings and The Wasp were both produced at the Hampstead Theatre and Trafalgar Studios. Belongings was shortlisted for The Charles Wintour Most Promising Playwright Award.  The film adaptation of The Wasp premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in June ’24 and was released online in September ’24.

Morgan co-wrote the musical Cake with Tasha Taylor-Johnson and Jack McManus which toured the UK in early 2023 then a run in the West End in September 2023 and a run at The Other Palace in September 2024.  

Previously she has cowritten several comedy shows with her co-founded comedy group Trippplicate.  She has cowritten four pantomimes for the Lyric Hammersmith and two community shows for the Old Vic New Voices.  She has also solo written three Christmas shows; Robin Hood and Alice In Wonderland for Bolton Octagon and A Christmas Carol for The Rose Theatre Kingston.

She cofounded the theatre company Terrifying Women with Abi Zakarian, Sampira and Amanda Castro with the aim of creating more horror written by women for stages.  Since 2020 they have produced five horror shows of short plays in London and Cambridge.