P. G. Morgan

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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.worc.ox.ac.uk/alumni/news/peter-morgan-netflix|title=Peter Morgan at Netflix {{!}} Worcester College|publisher=University of Oxford|access-date=12 October 2017}} 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. {{not in citation|date=February 2022}}

After a short stint on the Western Mail, Morgan joined ITN as a graduate trainee in 1989.{{Cite web|url=https://allenandunwin.com/browse/books/general-books/history/Fire-Mountain-Peter-Morgan-9780747568438|title=Fire Mountain – Peter Morgan – 9780747568438 – Allen & Unwin – Australia|website=allenandunwin.com|access-date=2 July 2017}} 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.{{Cite news|title=There's No Smoke Without Fire|last=Morton|first=Brian|date=13 February 2003|work=Financial Times}}

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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/paperbacks-picasso-style-and-meaninggreenbackfire-mountainsolid-foundationparisian-sketchesthe-64950.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/paperbacks-picasso-style-and-meaninggreenbackfire-mountainsolid-foundationparisian-sketchesthe-64950.html |archive-date=24 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Paperbacks: Picasso: style and meaningGreenbackFire|date=19 March 2004|work=The Independent|access-date=19 August 2017}} Morgan was also part of the reporting team which won 1994 BAFTA and Amnesty International Awards for their coverage of the siege of Srebrenica.{{Cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1994/television/|title=Television in 1994 {{!}} BAFTA Awards|website=awards.bafta.org|access-date=1 July 2017}} During these years, Morgan also wrote regularly for The Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement,{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/letter-from-burlington/|title=Letter from Burlington – TheTLS|website=The Times Literary Supplement|access-date=18 August 2017}} the New Statesman, Index on Censorship{{Cite journal|last=Morgan|first=Peter|year=1999|title=Sale of the decade|journal=Index on Censorship|volume=28|issue=5|pages=175–180|doi=10.1080/03064229908536670|doi-access=free}} and the New Welsh Review.{{Cite journal|last=Morgan|first=Peter|date=Summer 1997|title=Unstable Identities|url=https://www.newwelshreview.com/contents-37.php|journal=New Welsh Review|volume=37}} In 1999, he returned to Oxford as a Reuters Fellow at Green Templeton College.

Between 2000 and 2005, Morgan worked simultaneously for ITN and for BBC Current Affairs, writing TV scripts and producing several drama documentaries.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QXnrGwAACAAJ|title=Fire Mountain: How One Man Survived the World's Worst Volcanic Disaster|last=Morgan|first=Peter|date=2003|publisher=Bloomsbury|isbn=9780747556763|language=en}} His teen drama Spit Game was nominated for a BAFTA in 2004.{{Cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/2004/television|title=Television in 2004 {{!}} BAFTA Awards|website=awards.bafta.org|access-date=1 July 2017}} He also wrote episodes of Doctors and The Bill and over a dozen radio dramas,{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007684p|title=The Friday Play: Milosevic in Black and White – BBC Radio 4|publisher=BBC|access-date=2 July 2017}} for which he received the Richard Imison Award (for A Matter of Interpretation){{Cite web|url=http://www.societyofauthors.org/Prizes/Audio-Drama/Imison/Previous-Imison-Award-winners|title=Prizes {{!}} The Society of Authors|website=www.societyofauthors.org|access-date=1 July 2017}} and a Sony Radio Academy Award nomination (for "Milosevic in Black and White").{{Cite web|url=http://www.casarotto.co.uk/assets/x/53269.pdf|title=P.G. Morgan|website=Casarroto Rams & Associates|access-date=17 August 2017}}

In 2002, Morgan published Fire Mountain:{{Cite book|title=Fire Mountain|last=Morgan|first=Peter|date=15 July 2004|publisher=Ulverscroft Large Print Books|isbn=9781843953562|edition=Large type|location=Leicester|language=English}} a non-fiction account of the 1902 volcanic eruption of Mont Pelée in Martinique. The book was published by Bloomsbury in the UK and the US and was subsequently adapted for Secrets of the Dead;{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Mountain-John-Shrapnel/dp/B00FFVAEJQ|title=Amazon.com: Fire Mountain: John Shrapnel, Frances Berrigan: Amazon Digital Services LLC|website=Amazon |access-date=1 July 2017}} a drama documentary series produced by National Geographic.{{Cite web|url=http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/fire_mountain|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160728171422/http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/fire_mountain|url-status=usurped|archive-date=28 July 2016|title=snagfilms|website=snagfilms.com|access-date=2 July 2017}} Around this time, Morgan also undertook archival research for Professor Kathy Burk's biography of the historian A.J.P. Taylor.{{Cite web|url=https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300094534/troublemaker|title=Troublemaker {{!}} Yale University Press|website=yalebooks.yale.edu|access-date=5 September 2019}}

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),{{Cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/shows/roman-polanski-wanted-and-desired|title=Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired|website=Television Academy|access-date=1 July 2017}} Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/31/arts/television/richard-pryor-omit-the-logic-on-showtime.html|title='Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic,' on Showtime|last=Hale|first=Mike|date=30 May 2013|work=The New York Times|access-date=6 July 2017|issn=0362-4331}} Revenge of the Electric Car{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2011-oct-16-la-ca-revenge-of-the-electric-car-20111016-story.html|title=Chris Paine gets his "Revenge"|last=Carpenter|first=Susan|date=16 October 2011|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=1 July 2017|issn=0458-3035}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/revenge-of-the-electric-car/|title=Revenge of the Electric Car {{!}} Our Films {{!}} Independent Lens {{!}} PBS|work=Independent Lens|access-date=6 July 2017}} and Fantastic Lies.{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2016/tv/reviews/fantastic-lies-review-espn-30-for-30-duke-lacrosse-1201720190/|title=TV Review: ESPN's 'Fantastic Lies'|last=Lowry|first=Brian|date=10 March 2016|work=Variety|access-date=6 July 2017}}

Morgan has also worked as a series producer on two CNN series: The Eighties{{Cite web|url=http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2016/02/25/cnnoriginals-the-eighties-from-tomhanks-premieres-thursday-march-31-at-9pm-etpt-more-info-here/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160226103333/http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2016/02/25/cnnoriginals-the-eighties-from-tomhanks-premieres-thursday-march-31-at-9pm-etpt-more-info-here/|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 February 2016|title=CNN Returns to 'The Eighties' with New Series From Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman Premiering Thursday, March 31, at 9 pm ET/PT|access-date=6 July 2017}} and The History of Comedy{{Cite web|url=https://whatnottodoc.com/2017/01/17/2017-sundance-docs-in-focus-the-history-of-comedy/|title=2017 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE HISTORY OF COMEDY|date=17 January 2017|website=what (not) to doc|access-date=1 July 2017}} and was a story consultant on the Beatles documentary Eight Days a Week.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/movies/the-beatles-eight-days-a-week-review.html|title=Review: 'The Beatles: Eight Days a Week' Taking the World by Storm|last=Genzlinger|first=Neil|date=15 September 2016|work=The New York Times|access-date=6 July 2017|issn=0362-4331}} He was an Executive Producer on Flint Town,{{Cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/netflix-grows-docuseries-lineup-flint-town-ezra-klein-produced-explainer-show-1075888|title=Netflix Grows Docuseries Lineup With 'Flint Town,' Ezra Klein-Produced Explainer Show (Exclusive)|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=24 January 2018}} 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.{{Cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2018/03/diagnosis-tv-series-netflix-lisa-sanders-new-york-times-magazine-scott-rudin-1202351019/|title=Netflix Giving NYT Magazine's 'Diagnosis' Column The Docuseries Treatment|last=Hipes|first=Patrick|date=22 March 2018|publisher=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=31 March 2018}}{{Citation|title=Diagnosis|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt8201618/|access-date=5 September 2019}} In 2020, Morgan was one of the producers on LANCE, a two-part feature documentary about the disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong.{{Citation|title=Lance|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt11427436/|access-date=2020-06-05}} The film premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and then debuted on ESPN in May 2020.{{Cite web|title=lance|url=https://www.sundance.org/projects/lance|access-date=2020-06-05|website=www.sundance.org|language=English}}

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{{Cite web|date=September 24, 2021|first=Greta|last=Bjornson|title=New Trailer for HBO Max Docuseries The Way Down Explores 'Cult' of Late Diet Guru Gwen Shamblin|url=https://people.com/human-interest/new-hbo-max-doc-the-way-down-gwen-shamblin-lara/|access-date=2022-02-22|website=PEOPLE.com|language=en}} and Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flames Universe.{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/twin-flames-universe-docuseries-premiere-date-title-amazon-1235708387/|title= Twin Flames Universe Docuseries Premiere Date, Title Unveiled by Amazon|date= 31 August 2023}}

Morgan is a member of the Writers Guild of America (West) and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.{{cite web |url=https://files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/17124105/New-Format-Updated-List-of-AF-Aug-23.pdf|title=List of Current Associate Fellows}} He is also a member of the Seren Network, a Welsh government initiative that helps students in Wales to achieve their full academic potential.

Morgan is married to the American documentary director Marina Zenovich daughter of former California State Senator George N. Zenovich.{{Cite web|url=http://friendsofcalarchives.org/2013/11/remembering-george-zenovich/|title=Remembering George Zenovich {{!}} Friends of the California State Archives|website=friendsofcalarchives.org|access-date=1 July 2017}} They have one son.{{Citation needed |date=March 2023}}

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