Morgan Spurlock

Morgan Spurlock is an award-winning writer, producer and director. Originally from West Virginia, he graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1993.

His first feature length play, The Phoenix, won the Audience Award at the 1998 New York International Fringe Festival. Spurlock went on to win the Outstanding Playwright prize at the Route 66 National Playwright Competition in 1999.

Spurlock first TV series, I Bet You Will, premiered on MTV in March 2002, and was the first show ever to make the jump from the internet to television. After producing 53 episodes of the reality game show, he took his profits and poured them into his first feature film, the fast food expose Super Size Me.

In 2004, Super Size Me became the third highest grossing documentary of all time. Spurlock won the Best Director prizes at the Sundance and Edinburgh Film Festivals. The movie was named to more than 35 year end top ten lists and was a National Board of Review and Critic’s Choice Best Documentary nominee. New York Film Critics Online named it the Best Documentary of 2004, and in 2005, it received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary.

Spurlock’s first book, “Don’t Eat This Book,” hits stores in May 2005 and picks up where the movie left off, diving even deeper into the psyche of a Super-Sized nation. His second TV series, 30 Days, is set to premiere on the F/X Network in June and this fall, he’ll deliver the irreverent and topical social comedy Public Nuisance to the masses on Comedy Central.

Since August 2004, Morgan has visited 30 universities, as well as 28 secondary schools (high schools and middle schools). The fall tour included such esteemed institutions as Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, and Tufts University. The tour even included a visit to Alaska.

In 2005, he will continue to spread the word on college campuses and high schools across the country. Upcoming talks include UNLV, Vassar College, and West Virginia University.

Morgan is currently working on creating the Educational Enhanced version of Super Size Me, for release in the nation’s schools, in order to help further combat the obesity epidemic facing the country.

Spurlock currently lives in the East Village in New York City with his vegan fiancé Alexandra Jamieson and their manly cat Sue.