Thank you for taking the time to read my work. I like to write about scams, catfishing, living "ethically," sex(uality), technology, love, past lives, and complicated friendships. I primarily write comedies. My thesis play at Columbia, Timmy, feels like a culmination of everything I love -- it's a story about someone working through their sexuality in the darkest possible way, through an elaborate catfishing plot, by sexting on stage.

This year, I had two knee cartilage transplant surgeries. This experience has gotten me thinking a lot about bodies desperate for numbness, instead of gratification. At the same time, I've been working on a new musical comedy, Caleb Needs A Kidney, with my artistic partner, composer/lyricist Caleb Martin-Rosenthal -- about a very different, much more serious kind of transplant surgery. Caleb Needs A Kidney follows a group of friends competing to be the one to donate a kidney to their friend Caleb, in an attempt to improve their image and social standing. Like Chloe, the protagonist, I look for evidence everywhere that people can be more than their worst moments, and struggle with feeling like a “bad person” no matter what I do. Like Caleb, I’ve received a donation: someone young died, and as a result of their sacrifice as a donor, I am out of pain.

Overall, I love to use the darkness and pain I experience -- either my early struggles to figure out my sexuality, my experiences with mental illness, or my physical health issues (or just regular old heartbreak) to make something funny and try to see things in a new light.

I'm always excited to collaborate and talk about theatre! Please feel free to reach out if any of this is interesting to you.

best,
wishes,
Megan ([email protected])