Morgain McGovern

Morgain McGovern is an actress, comedienne and writer. She is currently a blogger for "Dirty And Thirty"; an online magazine. She grew up traveling across America and abroad with her family. She wrote "The Traveling Road Show of the Countess Maritsa" a memoir about growing up in a family on the run, who learn to survive by their mother's wit, frenetic bipolar energy, and clever con artistry. In the "Mad Men" era of the mid-sixties, Women's Wear Daily journalist- Maureen Smith met Don McGovern, a brilliant Broadway actor and stage manager of Lincoln Center in the East Village-who also moonlighted as a Mafia henchman. Together in Los Angeles, they raised their four daughters on movie sets and in parties surrounded by the glitterati; Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper and Paul Zindel- who were all a part of her early childhood memories. After Don's success in the films Easy Rider and The Last Detail, alcoholism and womanizing soon engulfed him. After one too many affairs on Theatre Company