Vicki Meagher

Vicki Meagher

Vicki Meagher is a full-time writer of eleven full-length plays (posted below). All her plays have strong women characters. Five short plays and one short radio play are posted at the end.

Her plays involve the afterlife and the paranormal as well as current topics such as reeducation camps, climate change, dementia, abortion, and school shootings.

She started writing plays in...
Vicki Meagher is a full-time writer of eleven full-length plays (posted below). All her plays have strong women characters. Five short plays and one short radio play are posted at the end.

Her plays involve the afterlife and the paranormal as well as current topics such as reeducation camps, climate change, dementia, abortion, and school shootings.

She started writing plays in 2013.

She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

She's a member of the Dramatists Guild, Playwrights Circle (Albuquerque), Playwrights' Platform (Boston), Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, Playwrights en Masse, and the International Centre for Women Playwrights.

Plays

  • The Mind Has Legs by Vicki Meagher
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: trauma, paraplegia + 7 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: trauma, paraplegia, severe depression, Buddhism, suicide prevention, nature, model trains, dance, school shooting
    FULL-LENGTH DRAMA with MINIMAL SET (1 man, 1 woman)
    Can two emotionally challenged people help save each other? In the aftermath of a tragedy that pits them together, a middle-aged paraplegic man and a young suicidal woman become unlikely friends.
  • Is It Over Yet? by Vicki Meagher
    Cast: 
    14
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: Albuquerque, pandemic
    Genre: comedy, drama, zoom
    Keyword: Albuquerque, pandemic
    FULL-LENGTH SET OF MONOLOGUES AND DUOLOGUES (8 women, 5 men, 1 small boy)
    Fourteen people in Albuquerque, New Mexico successfully struggle through the pandemic with issues they had before the pandemic.
  • Sister's Keeper by Vicki Meagher
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: fraternal twins, love/hate relationship + 3 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: fraternal twins, love/hate relationship, loneliness, parent problems, mental illness
    FULL-LENGTH DRAMA/DARK COMEDY (2 women)
    Fraternal twin sisters have a lifetime love-hate relationship, starting in the womb and continuing into their 70s.
  • Camp Wonder by Vicki Meagher
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama, political + 1 more
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    Keyword: reeducation camps, totalitarianism + 5 more
    Genre: drama, political, satire
    Keyword: reeducation camps, totalitarianism, love story, war, Politics, bird song, birds
    FULL-LENGTH SATIRE/POLITICAL THRILLER/LOVE STORY (2 women, 3 men)
    A woman with a fierce attachment to individual freedom finds herself in a reeducation camp established by the totalitarian regime of the Feather Federation of States (FFS). Three other "students" are in her class, taught by a complex man who is not necessarily who he seems to be.
  • Mother Yucca by Vicki Meagher
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    5–12
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: healing, paranormal + 8 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: healing, paranormal, psychic phenomena, grief, guilt, radical feminism, motherhood, spiritualism, religion, demons
    FULL-LENGTH DARK PARANORMAL DRAMA ABOUT HEALING (12 women characters, 5 female actors required)
    A woman with psychic ability and profound sorrow is reluctant to fully use her powers, till spurred on by an other-worldly person to become a healer.
  • Death Valley by Vicki Meagher
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama, science fiction
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    Keyword: post-apocalyptic, futuristic + 3 more
    Genre: drama, science fiction
    Keyword: post-apocalyptic, futuristic, desert, Death Valley, Extraterrestrials
    ONE-HOUR FUTURISTIC DRAMA (1 woman, 1 man, 3 other actors)
    In the distant future, the last woman on earth (who has been hibernating underneath an alluvial fan in Death Valley) is awakened by a trio of extraterrestrial beings. She ends up restarting the human race.
  • Limestone City by Vicki Meagher
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: climate change, southern gothic + 7 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: climate change, southern gothic, family, paranormal, war, apocalypse, nuclear war, sibling rivalry, healing
    FULL-LENGTH PARANORMAL SOUTHERN GOTHIC CLIMATE-CHANGE APOCALYPSE DRAMA (2 men, 2 women)
    Four grown siblings hole up in a limestone cavern to wait out the nuclear apocalypse caused by extreme climate change tensions.
  • Baby Brain by Vicki Meagher
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: parenting a special needs child, abortion + 4 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: parenting a special needs child, abortion, autism, bipolar disorder, genetic determinism, single parent
    FULL-LENGTH DRAMA (3 women, 1 man)
    When a 15-year-old boy on the autism spectrum and a 21-year-old woman with bipolar disorder get pregnant, the mothers of the two would-be parents have conflicting ideas about what should be done.
  • Say Yes to Tootlebritches by Vicki Meagher
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: spirituality, deep friendship + 7 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: spirituality, deep friendship, death, religion, god, aging brain, paranormal, suicide, agnosticism
    FULL-LENGTH PARANORMAL DRAMA (2 women, 1 man)
    An aging, agnostic woman with dementia plans to commit suicide by freezing to death, but she conjures up a way to save herself by invoking someone from another realm.
  • Daddy Dustball by Vicki Meagher
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: father issues, parent-hating + 4 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: father issues, parent-hating, nuclear family, death, stand-up, fishing
    FULL-LENGTH FAMILY DRAMA (2 women, 3 men)
    Three grown children who hate their father come home to watch him die.
  • Remembering Mackie Landerson by Vicki Meagher
    Cast: 
    4–5
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: afterlife, bardo + 4 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: afterlife, bardo, paranormal, death, nuclear family, murder
    FULL-LENGTH PARANORMAL AFTERLIFE DRAMA with MINIMAL SET (2 women, 2 men, 1 walk-on non-speaking)
    The mother and wife in a four-person family leads herself and her loved ones out of the immediate afterlife (the bardo).
  • Last Ride for Wonder by Vicki Meagher
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: Senior love, aging + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, romantic comedy
    Keyword: Senior love, aging, vibrator, nursing home
    10-MINUTE COMIC DRAMA (2 actors)
    An aging couple in a nursing home bond together by giving the woman’s vibrator a final workout.
  • Three Ladybugs by Vicki Meagher
    Recommendations: 9
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: religion, atheism + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: religion, atheism, agnosticism, spiritualism, ladybugs, death, god, speciesism
    10-MINUTE COMIC DRAMA (3 actors)
    Three ladybugs--a Believer, an Agnostic, and an Atheist--ponder the existence of other species while two humans (in voiceover) create their own drama.
  • Asking For It by Vicki Meagher
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, satire + 1 more
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    Keyword: metoo
    Genre: comedy, satire, zoom
    Keyword: metoo
    10-MINUTE SATIRE/COMEDY (1 woman, 1 man, 1 director's choice)
    A perp steals the wallet of a victim and tries to prove to the woman judge that the victim deserved it.
  • An Unusual Bird by Vicki Meagher
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama, zoom
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    Keyword: Play within a play, violin + 1 more
    Genre: drama, zoom
    Keyword: Play within a play, violin, homelessness
    10-MINUTE DRAMA (3 women)
    A homeless woman meets two young women actors and involves them in her drama.
  • Rebirth in Boston by Vicki Meagher
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, zoom
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    Keyword: Buddhism, bardo + 2 more
    Genre: drama, zoom
    Keyword: Buddhism, bardo, pandemic, Tibetan buddhism
    10-MINUTE DRAMA (1 woman, 1 man)
    Two failed Buddhists come together in the pandemic.
  • Rebirth in Albuquerque (radio play) by Vicki Meagher
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, radio drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: Buddhism, bardo + 2 more
    Genre: drama, radio drama, zoom
    Keyword: Buddhism, bardo, pandemic, Tibetan buddhism
    10-MINUTE DRAMA (1 woman, 1 man)
    Two failed Buddhists come together in the pandemic.