writer | director | performer
MEGAN is a writer, director, and actor of mixed Filipina-Canadian descent who grew up in the dirtbag strip malls of Florida’s Gulf Coast. She’s written for theater, fiction, and the immersive, weirdo-giants at Meow Wolf.
Megan writes to create new mythologies, using pop cultural tropes as accessible entry points for absurd, hot button issues. A decorated playwright, Megan’s play Britney Approximately (an adaptation of Medea remixed with the Britney Spears conservatorship) played to sold-out audiences in Atlanta as part of Theater Emory’s 2023 season. Marry Me, Bruno Mars, a socio-comic caper about a QAnon believer on a rescue mission to save a massage parlor worker during the Super Bowl, was part of Theatrical Outfit’s inaugural Made in Atlanta development series.
Her work has been called “suburban punk poetry” by fans and “pretty good—how much is the parking?” by her family.
Among her other plays are Cycle Play (a two woman thriller that takes place in a Soul Cycle), Only Reason (which follows six obsessed teen girl fans when their favorite boy band crashes their tour bus; co-written with Kimberly Belflower) and Batman Returns Returns (an indie-holiday-musical adaptation of Tim Burton’s 90s classic) which she created with installation artist Terror Pigeon at Austin’s Museum of Human Achievement (MOHA). (PHOTO CREDIT: Ismael Quintanilla >)
Upcoming projects include a commission from Inner City Arts in Los Angeles, the world premiere of her play Decapitations with Salvage Vanguard Theater in Austin, and writing and directing MOHA’s 2023 Christmas Musical Spectacular Edward Normalhands.
Her work has been developed, commissioned, and produced by the Alliance Theater, Salvage Vanguard Theater, Tofte Lake Center, the Workshop Theater, Paper Chairs, and Vanderbilt University, among others. She is a James A. Michener Fellow, Kundiman Fiction Fellow, Sewanee Writers' Conference Scholar, Seattle Public Theater Emerald Prize finalist, Playwrights' Realm Scratchpad Series semi-finalist, a 2021 Four Seasons Residency nominee, the 2021-2023 Emory Fellow of Playwriting, and is a member of The Road Theater’s Under Construction 5 playwrights cohort.
She’s taught creative writing at Bennington College, Emory University, UT Austin and at non-profit programs for youth across the U.S. including Rude Mech’s Off Center Teens, the New South Young Playwrights Conference, and the Austin Bat Cave. Megan has an MFA in Playwriting and Fiction from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, TX. She currently resides in Los Angeles where she is developing several projects for film and television and is the visiting Assistant Professor of Playwriting at University of California at Riverside.
Edward Normalhands | MOHA ATX 2023 | Photo: Ismael Quintanilla
Edward Normalhands | MOHA ATX 2023 | Photo: Ismael Quintanilla
Edward Normalhands | MOHA ATX 2023 | Photo: Ismael Quintanilla
Edward Normalhands | MOHA ATX 2023 | Photo: Ismael Quintanilla
Edward Normalhands | MOHA ATX 2023 | Photo: Ismael Quintanilla
Decapitations | SVT | Photo: Kimber Kawasan | ATX 2023
Decapitations | SVT | Photo: Kimber Kawasan | ATX 2023
Decapitations | SVT | Photo: Kimber Kawasan | ATX 2023
Decapitations | SVT | Photo: Kimber Kawasan | ATX 2023
Britney Approximately | Theater Emory ATL | Photo: Casey Gardner
Britney Approximately | Theater Emory ATL | Photo: Casey Gardner
Britney Approximately | Theater Emory ATL | Photo: Casey Gardner
Britney Approximately | Theater Emory ATL | Photo: Casey Gardner
Cycle Play | Mirrorbox Theater Cedar Rapids IA, 2021
Cycle Play | Mirrorbox Theater Cedar Rapids IA, 2021
Cycle Play | Mirrorbox Theater Cedar Rapids IA, 2021
Galactic Orphans | UTNT ATX 2017
Galactic Orphans | UTNT ATX 2017
Galactic Orphans | UTNT ATX 2017
Only Reason | Cohen New Works ATX 2015 | Photo: Lawrence Peart
Only Reason | Cohen New Works ATX 2015 | Photo: Lawrence Peart
Only Reason | Cohen New Works ATX 2015 | Photo: Lawrence Peart
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