Morgan Gould is a New York-based writer and director. She is currently a playwriting fellow at Juilliard, a New Dramatists Resident Playwright, and a 2017-18 Dramatists Guild Fellow. Her play I WANNA F***ING TEAR YOU APART, had its world premiere at Studio Theatre in Washington, DC in February 2017 (with Morgan directing). It is currently nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play and DC Theatre Arts said that Morgan's work "shows every bit as much promise as Edward Albee’s early work, arguably more."  She has previously held staff positions at Playscripts, Inc., Lark Play Development Center, Cape Cod Theatre Project, and Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, where she co-created UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW (BAC/PS 122) and worked alongside Young Jean on the premieres of LEAR (Soho Rep) and WE'RE GONNA DIE (Joe's Pub/ LCT3) and tours of PULLMAN WA and THE SHIPMENT. Morgan’s theater company, Morgan Gould & Friends, has had work featured in and at the New Ohio/ Ice Factory Festival, Dixon Place, The Brooklyn Lyceum, HERE Arts Center, Ars Nova, CAP21, BAX, New Georges, and The Culture Project. Morgan has a B.A. in Directing, Fordham College at Lincoln Center, M.F.A. in Playwriting, Brooklyn College. A frequent collaborator with playwright Leah Nanako Winkler, Morgan has directed Winkler’s plays KENTUCKYin a 2016 co-production with Radio Drama Network, Ensemble Studio Theater and P73, TWO MILE HOLLOW at the 2018 Women’s Project Pipeline Festival, and GOD SAID THIS at the 2018 Humana Festival. Morgan will helm the New York premiere of GOD SAID THIS at Primary Stages in the winter of 2019.