Maggie Cregan

I am a playwright whose work often features dark humor, difficult women, dangerous beliefs, and themes of contemporary American life. My play The Station, which explores the mind-bending, heartbreaking reality of a conspiracy theory, sold out its off-Broadway debut during the 2024 SheNYC Theater Festival.

I am a playwright whose work often features dark humor, difficult women, dangerous beliefs, and themes of contemporary American life. My play The Station, which explores the mind-bending, heartbreaking reality of a conspiracy theory, sold out its off-Broadway debut during the 2024 SheNYC Theater Festival.

Scripts

The Alatanqua Social Contract

Written by Maggie Cregan

Synopsis

In the summer of 2025, a nature preserve is losing grants and running out of money – fast. So when a private equity titan moves to take over the park, he gains nearly everyone’s trust. But an unorthodox consultant soon persuades the park’s unworldly manager to stage a fight instead. The resulting showdown pits friend against friend and asks the audience what terms they'll accept in a world of oligarchs and...

In the summer of 2025, a nature preserve is losing grants and running out of money – fast. So when a private equity titan moves to take over the park, he gains nearly everyone’s trust. But an unorthodox consultant soon persuades the park’s unworldly manager to stage a fight instead. The resulting showdown pits friend against friend and asks the audience what terms they'll accept in a world of oligarchs and identity politics, McKinsey consultants and moral gray zones.

The Station

by Maggie Cregan

Synopsis

SOLD-OUT OFF-BROADWAY DEBUT at the Connelly Theater during the 2024 SheNYC Theater Festival

WINNER OF THE 2023 PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER NEW PLAY AWARD

Gas station cashier Davina must take desperate measures when a QAnon-like conspiracy theory starts wreaking havoc in her small town. As a practicing hypochondriac and an adulterous born-again Christian, Davina entertains a few delusions of her own. But she can...

SOLD-OUT OFF-BROADWAY DEBUT at the Connelly Theater during the 2024 SheNYC Theater Festival

WINNER OF THE 2023 PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER NEW PLAY AWARD

Gas station cashier Davina must take desperate measures when a QAnon-like conspiracy theory starts wreaking havoc in her small town. As a practicing hypochondriac and an adulterous born-again Christian, Davina entertains a few delusions of her own. But she can only listen incredulously and argue fruitlessly when the strongest person she knows, her foster mother, starts painting over windows and drinking piss. With her relationships with her foster mother, foster sister, and (secret) boyfriend all hanging in the balance, Davina resolves to track down the mastermind behind the conspiracy posts...and then must decide how to punish the culprit.

Leonora from 5:00 to 5:11

Written by Maggie Cregan

Synopsis

As a “bag lady” subjects her fellow subway riders to her personal philosophy and perfectly reasonable requests for a knife, a snapshot emerges of life on the fringes.

As a “bag lady” subjects her fellow subway riders to her personal philosophy and perfectly reasonable requests for a knife, a snapshot emerges of life on the fringes.

Line Cooks Like Baby Birds

Written by Maggie Cregan

Synopsis

A couple's contentious dinnertime conversation slowly reveals the brutal act of violence committed – allegedly – by their son.

A couple's contentious dinnertime conversation slowly reveals the brutal act of violence committed – allegedly – by their son.

The Foleys

by Maggie Cregan

Synopsis

Five gatherings--two weddings, an engagement party, a burial (not a funeral), and Thanksgiving--chart the rise and fall of five close-knit, lying, scrappy, wealthy siblings, whose father confesses to running a Ponzi scheme amid the Wall Street crash of 2008.

Five gatherings--two weddings, an engagement party, a burial (not a funeral), and Thanksgiving--chart the rise and fall of five close-knit, lying, scrappy, wealthy siblings, whose father confesses to running a Ponzi scheme amid the Wall Street crash of 2008.