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 hot button issues. Among her plays are Cycle Play (a two woman thriller that takes place in a Soul Cycle), Only Reason (which follows six obsessed teen girl fans of fictional boy band Only Reason ; 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). Find more of Megan’s work on her New Play Exchange profile.

Recent projects include writing and directing MOHA’s 2025 Christmas Musical Spectacular The Summer Sauron Turned Pretty, a workshop reading of her new play, The Deliverer with Rogue Machine Theater in West Hollywood, two workshop readings of The Rink at the End of the World with Seven Devils and UCSB’s Launchpad program, and the upcoming Spring 2026 premier of her commission with Inner City Arts Los Angeles, Brain Freeze, co-written with Drew Paryzer. // (PHOTO CREDIT:Edward Normalhands - Ismael Quintanilla III)

Megan’s 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, an Emory Playwriting Fellowship alum, and a 4 Seasons Resident Playwright in cooperation with the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference,  Tofte Lake, UCSB and Ignition Arts. She was also a member of The Road Theater’s Under Construction 5 playwrights cohort and is a current writer in Rogue Machine Theater’s Playwrights Roundtable.

​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 prestigious 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.

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