For our first conversation in the Creative Skills for Community Development series, Liz Morgan will share insights from her career in the arts and her current work with Theatre of the Oppressed NYC where she is the Director of Training and Pedagogy. 

Liz Morgan is the Director of Training & Pedagogy at Theatre of the Oppressed NYC and a co-author of The Wildcard Workbook. In 2017, she initiated TO-NYC’s Rapid Response troupe, which specializes in experimental creative advocacy projects. Liz recently completed Columbia University’s Theatre of Change course in partnership with Broadway Advocacy Coalition where she developed Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happily Ever After, a Cinderella-inspired one-act aimed at inspiring immigration reform. Liz was a member of the NYC Narrative Power Network for Racial and Health Equity 2023 Cohort and her research with New York Presbyterian on Examining the Feasibility of Forum Theatre: An Innovative Approach to Dialogue Surrounding Bias and Barriers to Equitable Care was published in the Journal of Trauma Nursing. Before leaving to help form “The Fled,” a collective rooted in anti-racist values, Liz was also a resident writer at The Flea. Liz served on the A.R.T./NY Body Autonomy Leadership Council and TCG’s 2021 Rising Leaders of Color cohort. She holds both a B.A. and M.F.A. from Brown University.