MEGAN TABAQUE (she/her) is a playwright, director, and educator who grew up in the strip malls of Florida’s Gulf Coast.

Megan creates unapologetically entertaining new mythologies mixing suburban dirtbag vibes, pop culture tropes, and heightened comedy. Her 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. Only Reason (co-written with Tony-nominated playwright Kimberly Belflower) was nominated for Best New Play by Austin’s Critic Circle and follows six obsessed teen girl fans of fictional boyband Only Reason.

Among her other plays are Cycle Play (a two woman thriller that takes place in a Soul Cycle), The Rink at the End of the World (following a synchronized skating team during a global nuclear crisis), and Batman Returns Returns, Edward Normal Hands, and The Summer Sauron Turned Pretty—a series of queer-indie-holiday-musical parodies created with installation artist Terror Pigeon and composer Zac Traeger for Austin’s Museum of Human Achievement (MOHA). Her plays The Melvin Invention, Antigone’s Last Birthday, Phaeton’s Driving Test, and Brain Freeze (co-written with Drew Paryzer) have been staged for youth and family audiences in Atlanta and Los Angeles.

Megan’s work has been developed, commissioned, and/or produced by the Alliance Theater, Great Plains Theater Commons, Seven Devils New Play Conference, Tofte Lake Center, Theatrical Outfit, Salvage Vanguard Theater, Inner City Arts, Paper Chairs, The Road Theater, Rogue Machine Theater, UCSB’s Launchpad Program and The Workshop Theater.

Awards include the Michener Fellowship, Kundiman Fiction Fellowship, Emory Playwriting Fellowship, 4 Seasons Residency, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference Scholarship. She has been a finalist for the O’Neill Playwrights Conference and Seattle Public Theater Emerald Prize, and a Semifinalist for the New Dramatist Residency, Princess Grace Award, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and Playwrights’ Realm Scratchpad Series.

She’s taught creative writing at Bennington College, Emory University, UT Austin and at non-profit programs for youth across the U.S. including Inner City Arts, Rude Mech’s Off Center Teens, the New South Young Playwrights Conference, and the Austin Bat Cave. She has also assisted award-winning TV writer Sheila Callaghan, and developed projects for the immersive weirdo-giants at Meow Wolf.

Megan has an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, TX. She currently resides in Los Angeles, where she is an Assistant Professor of Playwriting, Screenwriting, and Acting at UC Riverside. | Find more of Megan’s Plays on New Play Exchange.