Megan Breen
Megan Breen received her BFA in Dramaturgy at The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago in 2002 and her MFA in Dramatic Writing at USC’s School of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles in 2010. Her USC thesis play My First, My Fist, My Bleeding Seeded Spirit, a contemporary sequel to Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, was part of the 2010 MFA Playwrights’ Workshop at the Kennedy Center and the National New...
Megan Breen received her BFA in Dramaturgy at The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago in 2002 and her MFA in Dramatic Writing at USC’s School of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles in 2010. Her USC thesis play My First, My Fist, My Bleeding Seeded Spirit, a contemporary sequel to Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, was part of the 2010 MFA Playwrights’ Workshop at the Kennedy Center and the National New Play Network’s Showcase of New Plays before receiving its world premiere at Miami’s New Theatre in November of 2013. My First, My Fist has been taught in classrooms at UC Davis and The Theatre School at DePaul University. Her Cain and Abel story set to the Blues - The Dirt and Its Harp in Her Mouth - was produced at OC Centric’s 2012 New Play Festival, and made the OC Examiner’s Best New Plays of Orange County list. Her sexy desert noir Serpentine Pink, originally commissioned by Cock and Bull Theatre in Chicago, was produced as a part of L.A.’s Son of Semele’s Company Creation Festival, and was a finalist for Washington D.C.’s 2015 Source Festival. It had its world premiere at James Madison University in October 2016. She wrote the screenplay for Ron Hanks’ short film Dirt Eaters which premiered at Cannes’ 2015 Court Métrage, and her short play Sexy Popcorn was selected for and published in The Best of Playground 2015 – Los Angeles. Megan’s contemporary adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts – Lecherous Honey – had its world premiere production with Cock and Bull in October 2016 as well. Her new play about Los Angeles’ vibrant poetry and spoken word scene was developed at the HBMG National Winter Playwrights Festival in Colorado last winter, and received a workshop with Pop Magic Productions in Chicago last spring. She and her company By The Souls Of Our Feet are currently conjuring a new primitive opera based on the Hecuba myth with the legendary O-Lan Jones of Overtone Industries. It will have a production at Son of Semele Theatre in August 2018. Megan teaches theatre, literature and playwriting at The New York Film Academy in Los Angeles.