Morgan Rose Aldrich
Besen Family Artist
Morgan Rose is an internationally produced playwright, performance-maker, and dramaturg. 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 Program 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), F. (Poppyseed Festival), Virgins and Cowboys (Theatre Works/Griffin Theatre), Death Match (Malthouse Theatre/Monash University), desert, 6:29pm (Red Stitch Actors' Theatre/Wuzhen Theatre Festival), and The Bachelor S17E05 (La Mama/Brunswick Mechanics) a verbatim episode of The Bachelor which she co-directed. She is currently the resident writer at youth theatre company Riot Stage and a co-founder of the dramaturgy initiative, Lonely Company. She is left handed.
Besen Family Artist Program Placement, 2015, Writing
Besen Family Artist Program Placement, 2020, Dramaturgy, Hello, World!, Because the Night