P. G. Morgan
P. G. Morgan in 2017
P. G. Morgan in 2017
BornBangor, Wales
OccupationProducer
SpouseMarina Zenovich
Children1
RelativesGeorge N. Zenovich (father-in-law)

Peter Gwynne Morgan is a Welsh television and film writer/producer. 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. After school, Morgan won a scholarship to read Modern History at Worcester College, Oxford.[3] 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 in 1988 with an Honours degree in Modern History, Morgan obtained a postgraduate Diploma in Journalism from the University of Wales, College of Cardiff.[3] [failed verification]

Career

TV journalism

After a short stint on the Western Mail, Morgan joined ITN as a graduate trainee in 1989.[4] 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.[5]

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.[6] Morgan was also part of the reporting team which won 1994 BAFTA and Amnesty International Awards for their coverage of the siege of Srebrenica.[7] During these years, Morgan also wrote regularly for The Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement,[8] the New Statesman, Index on Censorship[9] and the New Welsh Review.[10] In 1999, he returned to Oxford as a Reuters Fellow at Green Templeton College.[3]

Writing

Between 2000 and 2005, Morgan worked simultaneously for ITN and for BBC Current Affairs, writing TV scripts and producing several drama documentaries.[11] His teen drama Spit Game was nominated for a BAFTA in 2004.[12] He also wrote episodes of Doctors and The Bill and over a dozen radio dramas,[13] for which he received the Richard Imison Award (for A Matter of Interpretation)[14] and a Sony Radio Academy Award nomination (for "Milosevic in Black and White").[15]

In 2002, Morgan published Fire Mountain:[16] a non-fiction account of the 1902 volcanic eruption of Mont Pelée in Martinique.[11] The book was published by Bloomsbury in the UK and the US and was subsequently adapted for Secrets of the Dead;[17] a drama documentary series produced by National Geographic.[18] Around this time, Morgan also undertook archival research for Professor Kathy Burk's biography of the historian A.J.P. Taylor.[19]

US work

In 2005, Morgan moved to the United States. 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 2019, he continued his connection with Netflix by being one of the executive producers on Diagnosis, a seven-part Netflix documentary series produced in association with Scott Rudin, the New York Times and Lightbox.[29][30] In 2020, Morgan was one of the producers on LANCE, a two-part feature documentary about the disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong.[31] The film premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and then debuted on ESPN in May 2020.[32]

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. Other recent executive producer credits include What Happens in Hollywood, The Way Down: God, Greed and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin[33] and Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flames Universe.[34]

Morgan is a member of the Writers Guild of America (West) and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[35] He is also a member of the Seren Network, a Welsh government initiative that helps students in Wales to achieve their full academic potential.

Personal life

Morgan is married to the American documentary director Marina Zenovich daughter of former California State Senator George N. Zenovich.[36] They have one son.[citation needed]

Awards and nominations

[citation needed]

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)
2016 SXSW Gamechanger Award Nominee –  Fantastic Lies
2016 Critics Choice Award – Best Documentary Feature (TV/Streaming) & Best Sports Documentary –  Fantastic Lies
2018 Critic's Choice Documentary Awards Nomination: Best Political Documentary, Best Limited Doc Series — Flint Town
2018 IDA Awards Nomination: Best Limited Series —  Flint Town

References

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  2. ^ "PG Morgan". emmyawards.com. Television Academy. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  3. ^ a b c "Peter Morgan at Netflix | Worcester College". University of Oxford. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
  4. ^ "Fire Mountain – Peter Morgan – 9780747568438 – Allen & Unwin – Australia". allenandunwin.com. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  5. ^ Morton, Brian (13 February 2003). "There's No Smoke Without Fire". Financial Times.
  6. ^ "Paperbacks: Picasso: style and meaningGreenbackFire". The Independent. 19 March 2004. Archived from the original on 24 May 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  7. ^ "Television in 1994 | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  8. ^ "Letter from Burlington – TheTLS". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  9. ^ Morgan, Peter (1999). "Sale of the decade". Index on Censorship. 28 (5): 175–180. doi:10.1080/03064229908536670.
  10. ^ Morgan, Peter (Summer 1997). "Unstable Identities". New Welsh Review. 37.
  11. ^ a b Morgan, Peter (2003). Fire Mountain: How One Man Survived the World's Worst Volcanic Disaster. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9780747556763.
  12. ^ "Television in 2004 | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  13. ^ "The Friday Play: Milosevic in Black and White – BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  14. ^ "Prizes | The Society of Authors". www.societyofauthors.org. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
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  16. ^ Morgan, Peter (15 July 2004). Fire Mountain (Large type ed.). Leicester: Ulverscroft Large Print Books. ISBN 9781843953562.
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  19. ^ "Troublemaker | Yale University Press". yalebooks.yale.edu. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
  20. ^ "Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired". Television Academy. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  21. ^ Hale, Mike (30 May 2013). "'Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic,' on Showtime". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  22. ^ Carpenter, Susan (16 October 2011). "Chris Paine gets his "Revenge"". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  23. ^ "Revenge of the Electric Car | Our Films | Independent Lens | PBS". Independent Lens. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  24. ^ Lowry, Brian (10 March 2016). "TV Review: ESPN's 'Fantastic Lies'". Variety. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  25. ^ "CNN Returns to 'The Eighties' with New Series From Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman Premiering Thursday, March 31, at 9 pm ET/PT". Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  26. ^ "2017 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE HISTORY OF COMEDY". what (not) to doc. 17 January 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  27. ^ Genzlinger, Neil (15 September 2016). "Review: 'The Beatles: Eight Days a Week' Taking the World by Storm". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  28. ^ "Netflix Grows Docuseries Lineup With 'Flint Town,' Ezra Klein-Produced Explainer Show (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
  29. ^ Hipes, Patrick (22 March 2018). "Netflix Giving NYT Magazine's 'Diagnosis' Column The Docuseries Treatment". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  30. ^ Diagnosis, retrieved 5 September 2019
  31. ^ Lance, retrieved 5 June 2020
  32. ^ "lance". www.sundance.org. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  33. ^ Bjornson, Greta (24 September 2021). "New Trailer for HBO Max Docuseries The Way Down Explores 'Cult' of Late Diet Guru Gwen Shamblin". PEOPLE.com. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  34. ^ "Twin Flames Universe Docuseries Premiere Date, Title Unveiled by Amazon".
  35. ^ "List of Current Associate Fellows" (PDF).
  36. ^ "Remembering George Zenovich | Friends of the California State Archives". friendsofcalarchives.org. Retrieved 1 July 2017.


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