Megan Tabaque is a Filipina-Canadian writer, actor, and arts educator. Her work has been developed, commissioned, and produced by the Alliance Theater, Salvage Vanguard Theater, Tofte Lake Center, the Workshop Theater, Paper Chairs, Vanderbilt University and Meow Wolf among others. She is a James A. Michener Fellow, Kundiman Fiction Fellow, Sewanee Writers’ Conference Scholar, Seattle Public Theater Emerald Prize finalist, and a 2021 Four Seasons Residency nominee. Upcoming projects include:
Megan earned her MFA in Playwriting and Fiction from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, TX. She currently splits her time between Los Angeles and Atlanta, where she is a visiting faculty member in Emory's creative writing department and the 2021-2023 Emory Fellow of Playwriting.
(Right now, she's also the writers assistant to celebrated playwright and tv writer, Sheila Callaghan and a Lead Writer for Meow Wolf).
- Nov. 2022—A developmental workshop on her play about conspiracy theorists and human trafficking in Asian American communities titled Marry Me, Bruno Mars with Theatrical Outfit in Atlanta.
- March 2023—A workshop production of Britney Approximately, an adaptation of Medea through the lens of the Spears Conservatorship, at Emory University.
- Fall 2023—The world premier of her family ghost story play, Decapitations, with Salvage Vanguard Theater in Austin.
Megan earned her MFA in Playwriting and Fiction from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, TX. She currently splits her time between Los Angeles and Atlanta, where she is a visiting faculty member in Emory's creative writing department and the 2021-2023 Emory Fellow of Playwriting.
(Right now, she's also the writers assistant to celebrated playwright and tv writer, Sheila Callaghan and a Lead Writer for Meow Wolf).