Allyson Morgan is an actress, writer, producer, and the founder and Executive Director of the award-winning film and theatre collective F*It Club.
As an actress: Most recently, she has been seen onstage with F*It Club (world premieres by Kevin Artigue, Lucy Boyle, Jon Caren, Sarah Sander, Amy Staats, Kate Gersten, Mark Schultz, and Nick Jones) and EST/Youngblood, and has performed in readings all over New York at such theatres as Playwrights Horizons, The Lark, New York Theatre Workshop, & Jewish Plays Project. She has been named a "performer to watch" by ReviewFix.com. TV: "Law and Order: SVU" (NBC), "The Americans" (FX), "Hostages" (CBS), "Inside Amy Schumer" (Comedy Central), "Divorce" (HBO).
As a writer: 4 Dates, a short film which she co-wrote and co-produced, was awarded Best Comedic Film at the Zero Film Festival and was a selection at the Drive-In Film Festival. She has been commissioned to write short pieces for the New York play series Shotz and #serials@theflea, as well as for the One Minute Play Festival and videos for the online TDF Theatre Dictionary. Her short play What Goes Up was a finalist in the Samuel French Festival, reaching the top 10 out of 900 submissions. She was named one of just five winners out of thousands of entrants from over 63 countries in the Bombay Sapphire Imagination Series; her short film Need For Speed (Dating) premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. She recently was one of six creators selected out of hundreds for the iTV Fest Pitch Competition and was awarded a Juno Leadership Residency through the Omega Institute. She is represented by Circle of Confusion.