Morgan J Smart is a librettist, singer - songwriter, and story teller, born in Chicago, Illinois, who discovered a love of live performance from the color and community of the city’s art district. Morgan was gifted a guitar at age twelve, which sparked a curiosity for song writing.

Morgan attended Florida International University studying Communication Arts and Global Black Studies, merging the draw of writing with her interest in telling Black stories on a global scale. With an interest in sharing stories of independent, vibrant, strong, soft, fierce, and sometimes whimsical Black women like those in her own lineage, Smart went on to graduate from NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. There, she explored the world of writing for the stage.

Morgan has since written three musicals, Our Mother’s Mothers, AWAKENED, and SHADOWS, presented in three 29-hour equity readings (New York University, New York, 2018-19), produced as part of the NYU Tisch New Musical Theatre workshop in collaboration with New Studio on Broadway (New York University, 2019). She’s had work presented at GoodSpeed Opera House (Connecticut 2018), Broadway's Future Songbook Diversity series (Lincoln Center, New York, 2018), William Finn’s Emerging Writers presentation with New York Theatre Barn and Tisch IPA’s Pandemic Project (2020-21). Morgan was a semi-finalist in a Pilots, a month long playwriting competition hosted by Town Stages NYC in March of 2019. She’s worked as a dramaturg at Hi-Arts NYC, New Victory Theatre on Broadway, and Seattle’s Village Theatre (2023). Most recently, Morgan has written a movie musical produced by the New York Film Academy, and is currently writing book for the Broadway bound musical Six Triple Eight, inspired by the true story of the first and only All Black, all woman unit of the US Army to serve overseas during WWII.

As a singer and actor, Morgan has performed in a myriad of musical workshops, cabarets, concerts and private engagement’s. Morgan writes music and stories with collaborators around the country.