Morgan Webber-Ottey
Morgan Webber-Ottey is a writer and recovering lawyer. After discovering that there’s a lot less “trial strategy over takeout” in the real world than shown on TV, she made the difficult decision to hang up her litigator hat and swap one form of self-flagellation for another: writing darkly satirical one-hour dramas. Her character-driven writing centers deeply flawed women of color who are misfits and underdogs.
Morgan is a recipient of the 2024 Hansberry-Lilly Fellowship, a selected fellow for the 2024 NHMC’s Series Scriptwriters Program, and a Stowe Story Labs/SAGindie Fellowship winner. She is an alum of the Writers Guild Foundation’s Writers’ Access Support Staff Training Program, a second rounder in the Warner Bros. TV Writers’ Workshop, and she previously worked as the Script Coordinator on the final, 20-episode season of Manifest, on Netflix.