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Peter Morgan

PETER MORGAN

  (1963 - )
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Independent Talent Group Limited  represented by Michael McCoy

Peter Morgan is an international award-winning writer for stage, screen and film. As well as receiving Oscar and BAFTA nominations for his screenplay for Stephen Frears' the Queen starring Helen Mirren, Morgan won a host of international awards including Golden Globe, British Independent Film and Evening Standard British Film Awards. His last play, the award-winning Frost/Nixon, received critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic before being adapted in to an Academy Award-nominated film of the same name. the film garnered five Oscar nominations, including Best Screenplay. His many other film credits include the award-winning the Last King of Scotland, the Damned United, the upcoming Rush directed by Ron Howard as well as his current project about the life of Hugh Hefner for Warner Bros entitled Playboy. His extensive television credits include the critically acclaimed the Deal  the first part of Morgan's Tony Blair Trilogy (BAFTA Award for Best Drama), the Special Relationship and Longford.

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below is a list of Peter Morgan's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Audience, The         Dada To Damnation: Venus         Frost/Nixon         Horny Helmets         Venus
Audience, The

Audience, The
For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace - a meeting like no other in British public life - it is private. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said. Not even to their spouses. the Audience breaks this contract of silence and imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the Downing Street incumbents and their Queen. From Churchill to Cameron, each Prime Minister has used these private conversations as a sounding board and a confessional - sometimes intimate, sometimes explosive. From young mother to grandmother these private audiences chart the arc of the second Elizabethan Age. Politicians come and go through the revolving door of electoral politics, while she remains constant, waiting to welcome her next Prime Minister.

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Faber and Faber Ltd, London (2013) >>>
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   

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Play/Drama

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Male:  12            Female:  5            Other:  1 girl. With doubling

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Dada To Damnation: Venus

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Chapter, Cardiff     2000

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Made In Wales

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Frost/Nixon

Frost/Nixon
In 1972, a break-in was foiled at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel in Washington DC. Within days a connection had been made with the White House and President Nixon's closest aides. It unleashed one of the greatest scandals in modern American politics and ended with Nixon's humiliating resignation. David Frost's interviews with Richard Nixon drew the largest audience ever for a news interview. Could this British talk-show host, with no known political convictions and a playboy reputation, be the one to elicit an apology from the man who committed one of the biggest felonies in American political history?

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Male:  8            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Horny Helmets

Synopsis:
Buckle up your bearskins, the Viking fashion revival starts here! Guest House have spared every expense to bring you an epic tale of Nordic heroism and magic: a thrilling saga of gods, dwarves, dragons and unfeasibly huge beards performed by four actors, while Tolkien and Wagner spin in their graves.

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written by Peter Morgan and Rob Bowness

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Guest House Theatre Company

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saga

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Venus

Synopsis:
Venus tells the utterly contemporary story of Helen who, unsure of her actual talent, decides to turn her life into art, arguing there is no experience that cannot be exhibited. Her ex-boyfriend, however disagrees. . .

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part of From Dada to Damnation

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Made in Wales

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Genre:
short play

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