Megan Gogerty

Megan Gogerty

Megan Gogerty is a playwright and comedian. Her solo show Lady Macbeth and Her Pal, Megan played the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and won the Audience Pick of the Fringe at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Her play Bad Panda (Theatre Without Borders, Beijing; Iron Crow Theatre Co.; WordBRIDGE Boomerang Playwright honoree) is published by Original Works Publishing and was translated into Spanish for a five-month run...
Megan Gogerty is a playwright and comedian. Her solo show Lady Macbeth and Her Pal, Megan played the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and won the Audience Pick of the Fringe at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Her play Bad Panda (Theatre Without Borders, Beijing; Iron Crow Theatre Co.; WordBRIDGE Boomerang Playwright honoree) is published by Original Works Publishing and was translated into Spanish for a five-month run at Del Teatro Milan in Mexico City. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution listed her solo show Hillary Clinton Got Me Pregnant in their yearly Top Ten Best Plays. Megan’s musical drama Love Jerry was produced in the New York Musical Theatre Festival where it won three Talkin’ Broadway Citations and four NYMF Excellence Awards including Excellence in Writing (Book). Her ten-minute play Rumple Schmumple (Dramatic Pub.) was a Kennedy Center/National ACTF honoree. Other plays include: Housebroken (Riverside Theatre, Hollins University); Save Me, Dolly Parton (Riverside Theatre, Synchronicity Theatre; named among Best Plays in Atlanta by Creative Loafing). Her musical tribute album to the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer is widely available online. Megan was a Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellow, a WordBRIDGE alum, and she earned her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin. She currently teaches playwriting at the University of Iowa and is a regularly returning visiting faculty for the Playwright's Lab at Hollins University.

Plays

  • Chipmunk'd by Megan Gogerty
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    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
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    Keyword: solo, romance + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    Keyword: solo, romance, comedy
    When comedian Megan Gogerty gets bit by a chipmunk, it sets off an increasingly alarming chain of calamities, causing her to wrestle with the question: what do we do when we don't know what's coming? A sexy comedy about existential dread.
  • FEAST. by Megan Gogerty
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 4 more
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    Keyword: patriarchy, Politics + 1 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, fable/folktale, fantasy, immersive, political
    Keyword: patriarchy, Politics, authoritarianism
    In this vivid reimagining of the Beowulf story, Grendel’s mother has thrown a dinner party at the end of humanity to seek justice for her son’s murder at the hands of a brutal strongman, only to confront her own complicity in his death and the subsequent spread of authoritarianism. Immersive, heightened high fantasy crashes into our contemporary political moment, asking us to consider our own responsibility to...
    In this vivid reimagining of the Beowulf story, Grendel’s mother has thrown a dinner party at the end of humanity to seek justice for her son’s murder at the hands of a brutal strongman, only to confront her own complicity in his death and the subsequent spread of authoritarianism. Immersive, heightened high fantasy crashes into our contemporary political moment, asking us to consider our own responsibility to confront climate change, income inequality, and state-sponsored violence.

    ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN ONLINE-ONLY PLAY. Send an inquiry for a special version of the script, specifically tailored for a live-streaming or prerecorded digital experience.
  • Lady Macbeth and Her Pal, Megan by Megan Gogerty
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: feminism, Shakespeare + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, political
    Keyword: feminism, Shakespeare, Shakespeare character, Lady Macbeth, witch
    When comedian MEGAN GOGERTY is informed that she can’t play Lady Macbeth - because Lady Macbeth is a tragic figure of powerful darkness, and Megan is the human equivalent of a golden retriever - she sets out to prove them all wrong, only to discover that not only must she reevaluate her preconceptions of Lady Macbeth, she must reconsider herself as both a woman and as a standup comedian. Silly, theatrical, and...
    When comedian MEGAN GOGERTY is informed that she can’t play Lady Macbeth - because Lady Macbeth is a tragic figure of powerful darkness, and Megan is the human equivalent of a golden retriever - she sets out to prove them all wrong, only to discover that not only must she reevaluate her preconceptions of Lady Macbeth, she must reconsider herself as both a woman and as a standup comedian. Silly, theatrical, and complex, Megan attempts to answer the question, “What’s it like to be a woman comedian?”

    Spoiler: it’s murder.
  • Bad Panda by Megan Gogerty
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
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    Keyword: LGBTQ, Talking Animals
    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    Keyword: LGBTQ, Talking Animals
    They’re the last two pandas on earth. It’s mating season. One of them falls in love with a crocodile. Who is gay. And then the baby comes. In this sweet celebration of non-traditional families, Gwo Gwo the panda must balance his newfound desire for Chester the crocodile with his obligations to his prescribed panda mate, Marion. The animals eat, mate, splash around in identity politics, meditate on their...
    They’re the last two pandas on earth. It’s mating season. One of them falls in love with a crocodile. Who is gay. And then the baby comes. In this sweet celebration of non-traditional families, Gwo Gwo the panda must balance his newfound desire for Chester the crocodile with his obligations to his prescribed panda mate, Marion. The animals eat, mate, splash around in identity politics, meditate on their impending extinction, and love one another as only families can. Available from Original Works Publishing: https://www.originalworksonline.com/BAD-PANDA-by-Megan-Gogerty_p_13.html

    "Bad Panda offers nonstop hilarity and sweet introspection...Playwright Megan Gogerty’s smart, witty script and dedicated character development are to be lauded." - Broadwayworld.com

    "No school field trip to the zoo was ever this entertaining or self-discovering and this show will touch your heart on a warm and fuzzy level…" - DC Metro Theatre Arts

    "[Bad Panda] is fresh, cute, expertly-acted, well-directed, and despite the charaters being animals, very human." - Maryland Theatre Guide
  • Save Me, Dolly Parton by Megan Gogerty
    Cast: 
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: motherhood, parenthood + 1 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: motherhood, parenthood, feminist
    She's read all the books. Bookmarked all the blogs. She should totally have this parenting thing down. So why has she locked herself in her bathroom, the sounds of Dora The Explorer muffled only by her tears? In the follow-up to her smash hit HILLARY CLINTON GOT ME PREGNANT (Named in "Top Ten Plays of 2009" by Atlanta Journal-Constitution), SAVE ME, DOLLY PARTON features Gogerty’s quick wit and...
    She's read all the books. Bookmarked all the blogs. She should totally have this parenting thing down. So why has she locked herself in her bathroom, the sounds of Dora The Explorer muffled only by her tears? In the follow-up to her smash hit HILLARY CLINTON GOT ME PREGNANT (Named in "Top Ten Plays of 2009" by Atlanta Journal-Constitution), SAVE ME, DOLLY PARTON features Gogerty’s quick wit and sharp-eyed takes on politics, pop culture, and parenting. Along the way, chickens are beheaded, people take pies to the face, and various public humiliations are endured. Whether you're a parent or not, a feminist or not, a Dolly Parton fan or not (who's not?), Gogerty will leave you laughing in this comic, freewheeling memoir. Formerly titled: FEET FIRST IN THE WATER WITH A BABY IN MY TEETH.
  • Housebroken by Megan Gogerty
    Cast: 
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: house, real estate
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: house, real estate
    In her latest tour-de-force, Megan Gogerty gleefully skewers the hilarity and heartbreak of buying and selling a house in today’s economy. The offers, the counter-offers, the closings that don’t close, the deals that fall apart at the last minute, the granite countertops, the cracked foundations, and the disillusionment of the American Dream all come under the microscope of Gogerty’s keenly observed wit.
  • Rumple Schmumple by Megan Gogerty
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 6 more
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    Keyword: fairy tale, feminist
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, fable/folktale, fantasy, farce, parody/spoof, satire, young audiences
    Keyword: fairy tale, feminist
    Imagine – you’re the queen in a fairy tale, and some little man whose name you can’t seem to guess is demanding your first-born child. What do you do? Why, pass off the kid and free yourself from the shackles of unplanned motherhood, of course! In this comic send-up of the Rumplestiltskin story, the politics of feminism and reproductive rights are vigorously debated as the queen and the little man go rounds...
    Imagine – you’re the queen in a fairy tale, and some little man whose name you can’t seem to guess is demanding your first-born child. What do you do? Why, pass off the kid and free yourself from the shackles of unplanned motherhood, of course! In this comic send-up of the Rumplestiltskin story, the politics of feminism and reproductive rights are vigorously debated as the queen and the little man go rounds over motherhood, the tyranny of biological clocks, and who gets dibs on the little dumpling.

    Available from Dramatic Publishing: http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p1295/Rumple-Schmumple/product_info.html
  • Super Hot Raven & Raven II: The Ravening by Megan Gogerty
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: LGBTQ, Lesbian
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, horror, parody/spoof, romantic comedy, satire
    Keyword: LGBTQ, Lesbian
    A sexy, silly spoof of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, Super Hot Raven and Raven II: The Ravening are two ten-minute plays reimagining the famous poem as a hot lesbian love story between a poet and a mysterious plumber in a Baltimore Ravens jersey. They were written for Iron Crow Theatre Co.'s The Homo Poe Show, produced in Baltimore 2014.
  • Jacked by Megan Gogerty
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, experimental + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, experimental, farce, mystery/thriller, parody/spoof, romantic comedy, young audiences
    Abigail remembers Paris, and sexy cowboys, and roses, and a jar of eyeballs. What she doesn't remember is what happened to her.