megan tabaque

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 “amazing!—how much is the parking?” by 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 >)

Recent work includes the world premiere of her play Decapitations with Salvage Vanguard Theater in Austin in 2023, writing and directing MOHA’s 2023 Christmas Musical Spectacular Edward Normalhands, and a workshop production of her new play, Antigone’s Last Birthday, with Inner City Arts in Los Angeles.

Upcoming projects include a 2025 new play commission for Inner City Arts’ Work of Arts teen program in Los Angeles and a developmental reading of her latest work in progress, Untitled Figure Skating Play, with The Road Theater in North Hollywood in February of 2025.

Her work has been developed, commissioned, and produced by the Alliance Theater, Inner City Arts, Salvage Vanguard Theater, Tofte Lake Center, the Workshop Theater, Paper Chairs, Vanderbilt, and Theatrical Outfit 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, an Emory Playwriting Fellow, and the current 4 Seasons Resident Playwright in cooperation with the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Tofte Lake, UCSB and Ignition Arts. She is also 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 an Assistant Professor of Acting, Playwriting, and Screenwriting at the University of California at Riverside’s Department of Theater, Film, and Digital Production.

Edward Normalhands | MOHA ATX 2023 | Photo: Ismael Quintanilla

Decapitations | SVT | Photo: Kimber Kawasan | ATX 2023

Britney Approximately | Theater Emory ATL | Photo: Casey Gardner

Cycle Play | Mirrorbox Theater Cedar Rapids IA, 2021

Only Reason | Cohen New Works ATX 2015 | Photo: Lawrence Peart

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