Megan Smith-Harris

Megan Smith-Harris is an award-winning writer, playwright, director, and producer. For this former actor and comedy writer, storytelling is in her DNA. After years of refining her skills as a documentary filmmaker, journalist, and magazine writer/editor, she revisited her theatrical roots and began writing for the stage in 2015. Megan is unabashedly committed to creating compelling and complex roles for women with a distinctively female perspective. When iconic playwright Terrence McNally personally selected Megan’s play, KILLING MOM, as first-place winner in a one-act playwriting competition, he encouraged her to expand the piece into a full-length play, saying, “you must do this — the audience is hungering for more.” She did. KILLING MOM was selected for the New Works Program at ACT of...

Megan Smith-Harris is an award-winning writer, playwright, director, and producer. For this former actor and comedy writer, storytelling is in her DNA. After years of refining her skills as a documentary filmmaker, journalist, and magazine writer/editor, she revisited her theatrical roots and began writing for the stage in 2015. Megan is unabashedly committed to creating compelling and complex roles for women with a distinctively female perspective. When iconic playwright Terrence McNally personally selected Megan’s play, KILLING MOM, as first-place winner in a one-act playwriting competition, he encouraged her to expand the piece into a full-length play, saying, “you must do this — the audience is hungering for more.” She did. KILLING MOM was selected for the New Works Program at ACT of Connecticut where it received a staged Equity reading in 2019. The play was scheduled to premiere at the American Theatre of Actors (A.T.A) in New York, until the pandemic derailed the production. KILLING MOM was subsequently named to the prestigious 2020 Kilroy's List.

Megan is the former editor of WILTON MAGAZINE and the current Managing Editor of OUR HOMES MAGAZINE. Her feature articles have garnered 25 Connecticut Press Club Awards and four National Federation of Press Women Awards. Her documentary films have aired nationally on PBS, around the world, and on Amazon Prime.

ON THE HORIZON:
A film adaptation of KILLING MOM is in process. Megan is also seeking production partners for her screenplay, THE GHOST OF YOU, a supernatural dark comedy that placed in 13 film festivals. More at megansmithharris.com

Scripts

KILLING MOM

by Megan Smith-Harris

Cast Size

6

Genre

comedy,

dark comedy,

drama

Cast of 5 women and 1 man | A darkly comic drama about mortality, sibling rivalry, and the corrosive effect of secrets. Matriarch Marion Wolcott’s quest for a peaceful death with dignity discretely assisted by her middle child, Ally, is complicated by the arrival of Marion’s two other daughters. When Beth, a charming thrice-married narcissist, and Joanne a tightly-wound megachurch devotee, learn of their mother...

Cast of 5 women and 1 man | A darkly comic drama about mortality, sibling rivalry, and the corrosive effect of secrets. Matriarch Marion Wolcott’s quest for a peaceful death with dignity discretely assisted by her middle child, Ally, is complicated by the arrival of Marion’s two other daughters. When Beth, a charming thrice-married narcissist, and Joanne a tightly-wound megachurch devotee, learn of their mother’s end-of-life game plan, the disclosure triggers a series of revelations, accusations, and unexpected consequences. Meanwhile, Ally’s taciturn teenage daughter Kat, is hiding a bombshell of her own, that once detonated, changes everything. This play offers complex, emotionally rich roles for five female actors in a wide age range (16-80), as well as a pivotal role for a Black male actor (30-50).

Killing Mom was named to the prestigious 2020 Kilroys List, received a staged Equity reading at ACT of CT, and a shorter, one-act version won first prize at the Bijou One-Act Play Competition judged by Terrence McNally.