Morgan McGuire, is a Black playwright, actor, and theatre-maker from the American West. She is a graduate of The Rita and Burton Goldberg MFA Playwriting Program at Hunter College and received her BFA in Acting from Marymount Manhattan College. Her debut play, The Red Room, was a New Yorker critics pick. Her play, In the Cotton, was commissioned by The Farm Theater for their College Collaboration Project, and ultimately won The Kennedy Center’s David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award. She recently won The Dramatists Guild Lanford Wilson Prize for her early career work. For ten years, she helped facilitate The Shelter, where she was, a dramaturge, Shelter Sunday moderator, and producer. Her plays are full of simmering rage, dark humor, and delight in the joy and terror of life. 

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