Megan is a multi-ethnic Filipina-Canadian playwright, actor, director, producer, and sometimes musician. Her plays have been produced or developed by Salvage Vanguard Theater, Tofte Lake Center, Paper Chairs, InFusion, 20% Theater, and Tympanic among others. Megan has performed on storefront and AEA stages across Austin, Chicago, and north Florida. She is a James A. Michener Fellow, Kundiman Fiction Fellow, Sewanee Writers' Conference Scholar, Tofte Lake resident, Seattle Public Theater Emerald Prize finalist, Austin Critics' Table nominee, and a company member of Salvage Vanguard Theater. She has her MFA in Playwriting and Fiction from the James A. Michener Center for Writers in Austin, TX. She grew up in the wilds of central Florida and currently resides in an adobe flat in the Santa Fe desert.
NEWS & UPCOMING PROJECTS:
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SPRING 2021 - Decapitations will have its world premiere with Salvage Vanguard Theater, at their soon-to-be new space on Rogge Ranch LLC in Austin, TX.
FEBRUARY 2020: Salvage Vanguard Theater's Works Progress Austin series presents a developmental staged reading of Megan's full-length play Decapitations, in partnership with the Asian American Resource Center of Austin.
DECEMBER 20-22, 2019 / PORTLAND, OR: Mississippi Studios is producing a remount of the Museum of Human Achievement's 2018 holiday rock adaptation of Batman Returns Returns at Revolution Hall, starring Heartbones band mates Sabrina Ellis (A Giant Dog, Sweet Spirit) and Sean Tillman (Harmar Superstar), with Megan directing. Tickets available here!
OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2019: Penfold Theater presents Ghost Quartet by composer Dave Malloy (Tony-nominated creator of the Broadway hit “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812"), directed by Liz Fisher, in which Megan plays the role of Brittain.
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SEPTEMBER 2019: Megan was awarded a Tofte Lake Center residency (with director Hannah Wolf and composer Michael Zapruder) to further develop The Changelings, an immersive concert musical about carbon footprints, glamping, and Greek myth.
AUGUST 16-18, 2019: Megan's play about a pair of sisters obsessed with spin cycling and revenge, Two Sweaty, is part of the Rite Out Loud Festival at The Austin Scottish Rite Theater August 16th - 18th, 2019. Tickets and event details here.
