LaToya Morgan is an American writer and producer. She held two multi-year deals with

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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.

Career

Television

Morgan began her screenwriting career as a participant in a

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Group writer's workshop. Her first screenwriting job was for

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's ''Shameless''. She went on to write for ''Complications'', ''Parenthood'', and '' Turn: Washington's Spies''. Morgan signed her first of two overall deals with

in 2016, the last of which expired in 2020. She had multiple requests from other employers before signing with AMC. She was a co-producer for an adaptation of ''

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'' produced by AMC Studios for

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. She was also a writer and co-executive producer for ''Into the Badlands'' and wrote for ''The Walking Dead''. She collaborated with

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to develop a crime drama, ''Duster'', that HBO Max ordered in 2020. She oversaw AMC's inclusion initiative designed to create pathways for "diverse" emerging writers. Through the initiative she developed two projects, ''Farmhand'' and ''Of Two Minds''. In July 2020 signed an overall deal with Warner Brothers Television Group, said to be in the seven figures, through her production company TinkerToys Productions. That year, Morgan and Sue-Ellen Chitunya won the Telling Our Stories short film competition hosted by WrapWomen and

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for their film ''Team Marilyn''. Morgan will write the screenplay for the upcoming ''Night of the Living Dead'' reboot film, to be directed by

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Other work

In April 2019 she created the hashtag #WGAStaffingBoost to help connect WGA writers seeking work amid the union's dispute with the

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(ATA). Morgan's debut

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, ''Dark Blood'', is scheduled for release in fall 2021 by

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Personal life

Morgan was born and raised in

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, California, where she currently resides. She received her MFA in screenwriting from the

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in 2005.

Accolades

* 2016 – Nominee,

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, Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series (for '' Turn: Washington's Spies)'' *2017 – Nominee, NAACP Image Award, Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series (for ''Turn: Washington's Spies)''

Filmography

References

External links

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