Morgan Watkins is an actor, teacher and director. He trained at RADA, graduating in 2009.

Since then he has worked extensively in Theatre, TV and Film. His screen work includes Kingsman The Secret Service, The Hour, Chicken, Small City, The Limehouse Golem, Noughts and Crosses and A Very English Scandal. He has performed in plays at the National Theatre, Almeida Theatre and The Lyric Hammersmith where he played Len in a revival of Edward Bond’s Saved. He is represented by Chalcot Square Arts and Media Management.

He teaches at various institutions across London and online. He is a taught screen acting at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has also taught at RADA, UEL, LMA and City Academy.

In 2023 he founded The Base with Oliver Bennett. They stage readings of fascinating plays from the western cannon with a response from a renowned thinker. They are also launching The Agon, a new writing competition looking for fearless voices. They also have a drop-in drama academy with the hope of beginning a drive back towards excellence.

Oliver Bennett is a writer, actor and director. He studied English Literature at Warwick University before training as an actor at RADA. 

His acting credits include Backbeat (West End, LA, Toronto), Worst Wedding Ever (Salisbury Playhouse), Ted Lasso (Apple TV), Becoming Elizabeth (Starz), SAS: Rogue Heroes (BBC), Miss Scarlett and the Duke (Alibi), The Coroner (BBC). As a writer, his first full-length play Europe After the Rain won the Mercury Playwright Award and was shortlisted for Out Of Joint’s WiT Award and the Papatango Playwright Award. It was produced at the Mercury Theatre and described as a “feverish, fiercely relevant satire…a highly promising debut” and “a darkly surreal, highly theatrical exploration of the world we live in now” (The Stage). It has been translated into Russian, and in 2020 was performed at the Goethe Institute, Minsk. 

In 2018, Oliver founded and ran HUNCHtheatre. His celebrated adaptation of Mikhail Lermontov’s novel A Hero of Our Time has been performed at the Edinburgh Festival, Arcola Theatre, and at theatres in St Petersburg, Cologne and Mogliev, all to huge critical acclaim. The play was hailed as “a vision of what theatre should be” (The Spectator), “a blistering feat of storytelling” (The Stage), “a very clever adaptation” (Times Literary Supplement) and “a sugar rush of intrigue and excitement” (The Scotsman). His one-man show Pass the Hat premiered at Stone Nest on Shaftesbury Avenue, before touring to Prague and Nepal. 

He is twice the recipient of a Peggy Ramsay Bursary and has just written and directed his first short film.