“I think casting is everything. You get a great cast and - certainly, as happens in 'The Hour' - so many of those performances on the page were transformed by those actors who took those parts and made it into something completely different.”

Welsh playwright and screenwriter

Abi Morgan is a Welsh playwright and screenwriter. She is known for her work in television and film, including Sex Traffic, The Hour, Brick Lane, The Iron Lady, Shame and Suffragette. Her writing spans drama for the small screen and feature films, and she has built a reputation for stories that move between private lives and wider social pressures. The titles associated with her include both original television work and screenplays adapted for cinema.