Morgan Rose was born in New Orleans, grew up in New Mexico, and currently lives in Melbourne. She is an internationally produced playwright, performance maker, and dramaturg. Her writing is sad-funny/funny-sad, with a focus on the absurdity of the contemporary world. Morgan’s work incorporates strong visual elements, due to a background in physical theatre, having studied with SITI Company (NYC, USA), Pacific Performance Project (Seattle, USA), Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre (Brisbane, Australia), and Dairakudakan (Hakuba, Japan). She completed a Master of Writing for Performance at Melbourne University's VCA in 2013 and in 2014 she undertook a Dramaturgy Internship with Playwriting Australia and the Besen Writers’ Programme at Malthouse Theatre. She was a recipient of the INK writing commission with Red Stitch Actors Theatre in 2014 and again in 2018. Recent works include: Lord Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise (Melbourne Theatre Company NEON 2015), F. (Poppyseed Festival 2016), Virgins and Cowboys (Theatre Works 2015, Griffin Theatre 2017), desert, 6:29pm (Red Stitch 2017, Wuzhen Theatre Festival 2018), Everyone is Famous (Riot Stage/Darebine Speakeasy, 2021) and The Bachelor S17E05 (La Mama, Brunswick Mechanics, 2018) a verbatim episode of The Bachelor which she co-directed. She was the resident writer at youth theatre company Riot Stage (riotstage.com) and a co-founder of the dramaturgy initiative Lonely Company (lonelycompany.com). She is currently one half of the company The People (thepeoplemaketheatre.com). She is left handed.