Megan Rivkin

It’s the early 2010’s. A multigenerational family stuck at home in the suburbs is on the verge of killing each other. Instead, they enact an elaborate catfishing scheme, using a fictional boyfriend, “Timmy,” to con their oldest daughter, Alexa, out of $20k, which they use to renovate their home. Timmy was inspired by unbelievable true stories of long-term catfishing, especially in the 2010s. Timmy explores the loneliness, repressed sexuality, and anger that comes from being isolated misunderstood by your family, and how that can lead people to do cruel things. This play contains sexually explicit language.

College freshman Abby thinks she’s going out to eat with a friend from class and her sister. This is exciting for Abby, who is desperate for a community. It quickly becomes clear that she may only be there as a potential Mary Kay recruit. How much is belonging really worth?

Aspiring chef and dog-mom, Lane, whips through genres, time periods, and her memories to piece together her failed relationship with her ex-girlfriend. She relives heartbreak, gets lost in her memories and dreams, and tries to do the most difficult thing of all — sitting with her own feelings and accepting reality.

The Island” - a lovable jerk - wants to prove that we all still talk. They hold a shady ticket salesman and an extravagant theatre-going woman hostage to demonstrate. We’re Here is a fifty-minute surreal play set in scenic Midtown, Manhattan. We’re Here includes sex, love, allergies, sadness, wealth, family, (big) apples, acting, and maybe even sex. This is where you are right now.

A one-act, seven-character play about art, gender, unrequited love, and mental prisons. A writer makes her way through the dinner party she created for herself. Does she need it anymore?

Paige’s 25th birthday is coming up, and she's starting to feel like EVERYONE in her life has a problem with her. She goes to a psychic for help, and leaves with a tool that manipulates others into loving her. However, unintended consequences leave the characters grappling with why they want who/what they want. Love-In-Idleness is a funny, fast-paced coming out story.

Who gets to write whose story? In a tight-knit college theatre environment, two anxious people fight to set the record straight. Set in two near-identical college dorm rooms.

"Kind Thing; Nice Thing is a ninety-minute non-linear play following three characters (all they/them) who are warring with the role of love in their lives. Bennett is a stay-at-home parent, full of love for their son, who they refer to as “Ducky,” and who constantly feels resented in their marriage to Alex. Alex is regularly driven crazy by Bennett, and pursues an extramarital affair with one who they fawn over as an artist. The artist, Sam, is a college student who seeks attention and admiration from a relationship with Alex, even though it is morally dubious. Told through a series of bedtime stories and dreamlike vignettes, Kind Thing; Nice Thing is a beautiful journey through love and how to love."