LaToya Morgan

LaToya Morgan is an American writer and producer. She was a writer for Parenthood, Shameless, and Complications, and was both writer and co-executive producer for Into the Badlands and Turn: Washington's Spies. She was also a writer and consulting producer for The Walking Dead. She held two multi-year deals with AMC and She signed an overall deal with Warner Bros. Television Group in 2020. She had multiple requests from other employers before signing with AMC. She was an executive producer for an adaptation of The Age of Miracles produced by AMC Studios for HBO Max. Through the initiative she developed two projects, Farmhand and Of Two Minds. That year, Morgan won the Telling Our Stories short film competition hosted by WrapWomen and received distribution on Starz for the film Team Marilyn.

In 2022 it was announced that Morgan will write the screenplay for the upcoming Night of the Living Dead reboot film, to be directed by Nikyatu Jusu.

She collaborated with J.J. Abrams to develop a crime drama, Duster, that HBO Max ordered in 2020. In September 2025, she signed a mini first-look deal with Universal TV, under which she will write and co-executive produce the adaptation of the novel The Paris Widow by Kimberly Belle.

Graphic novels Morgan's debut graphic novel, Dark Blood, was released in fall 2021 by Boom! Studios. Other work In April 2019 she created the hashtag #WGAStaffingBoost to help connect WGA writers seeking work amid the union's dispute with the Association of Talent Agents (ATA).

Personal life Morgan was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, where she resides. She received her MFA in screenwriting from the AFI Conservatory in 2005.

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