LaToya Morgan | |
|---|---|
| Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Education | AFI Conservatory (MFA) |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, producer |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Notable work | Duster (co-creator) |
LaToya Morgan is an American writer and producer. She held two multi-year deals with AMC and was a writer for Parenthood, Shameless, and Complications , and both writer and co-executive producer for Into the Badlands and Turn: Washington's Spies. She signed an overall deal with Warner Bros. Television Group in 2020. [1] [2] Morgan is the co-creator, executive producer and showrunner of the Max series Duster.
Morgan began her screenwriting career as a participant in the Warner Bros. Television Writer's Workshop. [3] Her first screenwriting job was for Showtime's Shameless. [3] She went on to write for Complications, Parenthood, and Turn: Washington's Spies .
Morgan signed her first of two overall deals with AMC in 2016, the last of which expired in 2020. [3] [4] She had multiple requests from other employers before signing with AMC. [5] She was an executive producer for an adaptation of The Age of Miracles produced by AMC Studios for HBO Max. [3] She was also a writer and co-executive producer for Into the Badlands and a writer and consulting producer for The Walking Dead. [3] [6] She oversaw AMC's inclusion initiative designed to create pathways for diverse emerging writers. [7] [1] Through the initiative she developed two projects, Farmhand and Of Two Minds. [7]
In July 2020 Morgan signed an overall deal with Warner Bros. Television Group through her production company TinkerToy Productions. [3] That year, Morgan won the Telling Our Stories short film competition hosted by WrapWomen and received distribution on Starz for the film Team Marilyn. [2]
Morgan will write the screenplay for the upcoming Night of the Living Dead reboot film, to be directed by Nikyatu Jusu. [8]
She collaborated with J.J. Abrams to develop a crime drama, Duster , that HBO Max ordered in 2020. [3] The series will premiere in May 2025. [9]
In April 2019 she created the hashtag #WGAStaffingBoost to help connect WGA writers seeking work amid the union's dispute with the Association of Talent Agents (ATA). [10]
Morgan's debut graphic novel, Dark Blood, was released in fall 2021 by Boom! Studios. [3] She also wrote the graphic novel series Creed: The Next Round as a franchise tie-in for the film Creed III for Michael B. Jordan's company Outlier Society which was published in 2023 by Boom! Studios. DC Comics also tapped Morgan for the 2024 horror anthology series DC Horror Presents.
Morgan was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, where she resides as of 2021 [update] . [11] [12] She received her MFA in screenwriting from the AFI Conservatory in 2005. [13]
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Shameless | No | Yes | No | [3] | |
| 2012–2013 | Parenthood | No | Yes | No | [3] | |
| 2013 | American Horror Story: The Orderly | No | Yes | No | [16] | |
| 2014–2017 | Turn: Washington's Spies | No | Yes | Yes | Co-executive producer | [4] |
| 2015 | Complications | No | Yes | No | [3] | |
| 2015 | Cobalt 60 | No | Yes | Yes | Short film | |
| 2017–2018 | Into the Badlands | No | Yes | Yes | Co-executive producer | [6] |
| 2019 | Team Marilyn | Yes | Yes | Yes | Short film; executive producer | [2] |
| 2019–2021 | The Walking Dead | No | Yes | Yes | Consulting producer | [6] |
| 2025 | Duster | No | Yes | Yes | Co-creator and executive producer | [3] |
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