Matthew Jacobs Morgan
Matthew is an award-winning 22 year old writer and director from London.
He began his career in acting, with credits including Cuffs (Tiger Aspect/BBC1) Love, Nina (See Saw Films/BBC1) and Wasted (Angel Eye Media/E4) as well as theatre credits including Our Town (Almeida Theatre). He is represented by Curtis Brown as an Actor.
His most recent short film Gracie was funded by IdeasTap and B3 Media (in association with BFI and Arts Council England) and starred Angela Wynter (Wondrous Oblivion, Eastenders), Kate Dickie (The Witch, Game of Thrones) and Rakie Ayola (Dredd, Now Is Good), and has been selected for various international festivals and won Best Film at Fresh Faced Film Festival and Leeds Young Film Festival. In December 2015, Gracie recieved its UK premiere at BAFTA.
In 2013, he was selected for the National Theatre’s New Views Young Writer’s programme, and in 2014, took part in B3 Media’s TalentLab programme (led by Professor Ken Dancyger of Tisch University), getting through to the third phase, and receiving production funding.
In 2015, he received funding from Creative Skillset to attend EICAR International Film School in Paris to write his debut feature film Grit + Sass, a coming of age comedy-drama, which is now in development with Mini Productions.