Meg Schenk

meg schenk (they/them) is a PNW playwright who grew up turning acorns into fairy furniture and scanning straits for orcas. Their work wields familiar horror tropes to satirize systemic failings and humanize queer and neurodivergent characters. Mostly, they hope to make you laugh. @megschenk

meg schenk (they/them) is a PNW playwright who grew up turning acorns into fairy furniture and scanning straits for orcas. Their work wields familiar horror tropes to satirize systemic failings and humanize queer and neurodivergent characters. Mostly, they hope to make you laugh. @megschenk

Scripts

Sudden & Severe Hunger

by Meg Schenk

Cast Size
2
Genre
dark comedy,
horror,
political,
satire,
science fiction

Capitalism never sleeps. Neither do the dead.

When the zombie apocalypse hit, life for these siblings... goes on?

SUDDEN & SEVERE HUNGER sinks its teeth into disability politics, the horrors of late-stage capitalism, and connection at the end of the world, taking a satiric, darkly comedic spin on the genre we all know and love.

Capitalism never sleeps. Neither do the dead.

When the zombie apocalypse hit, life for these siblings... goes on?

SUDDEN & SEVERE HUNGER sinks its teeth into disability politics, the horrors of late-stage capitalism, and connection at the end of the world, taking a satiric, darkly comedic spin on the genre we all know and love.

MERRY XMAS & A HAPPY NEW QUEER

by Meg Schenk

Cast Size
5
Genre
dark comedy,
holiday,
horror,
parody/spoof

FULL-LENGTH: This play begins with a story we’ve heard a hundred times— turn on the TV in December and you’ll see it again and again thanks to a certain greeting card company. But what happens when a queer couple disrupts that story? Turns out, it might be more slasher than familiar holiday romcom.

Vic's girlfriend, Tori, asks them to visit her parents in “Tinseltown” for the holidays. Despite Vic’s aversion to...

FULL-LENGTH: This play begins with a story we’ve heard a hundred times— turn on the TV in December and you’ll see it again and again thanks to a certain greeting card company. But what happens when a queer couple disrupts that story? Turns out, it might be more slasher than familiar holiday romcom.

Vic's girlfriend, Tori, asks them to visit her parents in “Tinseltown” for the holidays. Despite Vic’s aversion to all things Christmasy, they say yes. Why wouldn’t they? It’s not like they’ll have to pass the barrier from this reality into the next and encounter untold horrors—right?

Maybe Santa does know if you’ve been bad or good… so be good, for goodness sake.

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playwriting 101, assignment #1

by Meg Schenk

1
Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
experimental,
parody/spoof,
satire

TEN-MINUTE: A & B are trapped in a prompted purgatory of the playwright's design.

TEN-MINUTE: A & B are trapped in a prompted purgatory of the playwright's design.

TINDER DATE

by Meg Schenk

Cast Size
2—3
Genre
comedy,
fantasy,
horror,
romantic comedy,
science fiction

TEN-MINUTE: Sometimes first dates can feel a little... alien.

TEN-MINUTE: Sometimes first dates can feel a little... alien.

smudge

by Meg Schenk

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
drama,
movement/physical

FULL-LENGTH: In life-and especially your senior year of college-it’s not always smooth edges and easy transitions. This group of women in their early 20s navigate the messy befores-betweens-afters of their shared lives.

FULL-LENGTH: In life-and especially your senior year of college-it’s not always smooth edges and easy transitions. This group of women in their early 20s navigate the messy befores-betweens-afters of their shared lives.