Megan Tabaque

Megan Tabaque

Megan Tabaque is a Filipina-Canadian-American playwright, actor, and arts educator. Her work has been developed, commissioned, and produced by the Alliance Theater, Salvage Vanguard Theater, Tofte Lake Center, the Workshop Theater, Paper Chairs, Theatrical Outfit, and Vanderbilt University among others. She is a James A. Michener Fellow, Kundiman Fiction Fellow, Sewanee Writers’ Conference Scholar, Seattle...
Megan Tabaque is a Filipina-Canadian-American playwright, actor, and arts educator. Her work has been developed, commissioned, and produced by the Alliance Theater, Salvage Vanguard Theater, Tofte Lake Center, the Workshop Theater, Paper Chairs, Theatrical Outfit, and Vanderbilt University among others. She is a James A. Michener Fellow, Kundiman Fiction Fellow, Sewanee Writers’ Conference Scholar, Seattle Public Theater Emerald Prize finalist, Playwrights’ Realm Scratchpad Series semi-finalist, a 2021 Four Seasons Residency nominee, and the recipient of the Emory Playwriting Fellowship from 2021 to 2023. Megan earned her MFA in Playwriting and Fiction from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, TX. S

Plays

  • Marry Me, Bruno Mars by Megan Tabaque
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    8–15
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: political, Asian American + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, political
    Keyword: political, Asian American, filipino, QAnon, conservatism, feminism, sex work
    A massage parlor worker slash Bruno Mars fan becomes an unwitting damsel in distress when a vigilante conspiracy theorist and his son set out on a Pizza Gate-esque rescue mission.
  • Britney Approximately: A Pop Greek Tragedy by Megan Tabaque
    Cast: 
    8–12
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    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy + 6 more
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    Keyword: Medea, adaptation + 4 more
    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy, docudrama/historic, fantasy, melodrama, parody/spoof, satire, tragedy
    Keyword: Medea, adaptation, Britney Spears, motherhood, 90 minute comedy, Ancient Greek tragedy
    Britney Approximately is a new play with original pop music about motherhood, isolation, and power. Pushed through a glitter-pink meat grinder, it mixes Eurpides’ Medea with a loose retelling of the Britney Spears conservatorship court battle. One part bombastic and violent Greek Tragedy and one hundred parts tragic-pop-diva-revenge-song, this plays asks: What does our treatment of celebrity say about us?
  • Cycle Play by Megan Tabaque
    Recommendations: 5
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    Cast: 
    2–3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: all female cast, All female cast by female playwrights + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, mystery/thriller, satire
    Keyword: all female cast, All female cast by female playwrights, dark comedy, spinning, dark thriller
    When two strangers meet in an urban boutique cycling studio their budding friendship ramps up into a smoothie-ridden rampage of revenge. The cult like language of the club and their intense connection reverberates beyond the studio walls. Cycle Play asks us “Is toxic femininity like, a thing?" and "How combustible are those fast-female-friendships we’ve all been swept up in?" A comedic thriller...
    When two strangers meet in an urban boutique cycling studio their budding friendship ramps up into a smoothie-ridden rampage of revenge. The cult like language of the club and their intense connection reverberates beyond the studio walls. Cycle Play asks us “Is toxic femininity like, a thing?" and "How combustible are those fast-female-friendships we’ve all been swept up in?" A comedic thriller for two actors and one wig.
  • Decapitations by Megan Tabaque
    Cast: 
    6–7
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: mixed race families, family ghosts + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, fable/folktale
    Keyword: mixed race families, family ghosts, Filipino American, florida, Ferdinand Marcos
    When a local dog goes missing the week of Halloween, the Santos family become the targets of a homeowners association dispute while also having to mourn the death of their matriarch an ocean away. Surreal, funny, and haunting, Decapitations is a story about a multi-racial Filipino-American family in the form of a ghost story.
  • Galactic Orphans by Megan Tabaque
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: video games, teenagers + 7 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, drama, fantasy
    Keyword: video games, teenagers, guns, puberty, virginity, periods, siblings, drug addiction, absent parents
    With no parents, not enough Doritos, and a little too much vodka in their Sprite, Ri and Ted reunite a year after graduating high school for an all night gaming marathon. But, Ted's little sister, Cory, won't let guys' night happen without a fight. In twenty-four hours, Ri, Cory, and Ted work together to save the war torn gamer galaxy but will they save each other?
  • Only Reason (formerly titled Teen Girl FANtasies) by Megan Tabaque
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    11
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 3 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, drama, romantic comedy, young audiences
    Six online friends find their inner strength when their favorite boy band, Only Reason, experiences a near fatal bus crash. Co-written with Kimberly Belflower.
  • The Vegetarian and Her Dead Daddy by Megan Tabaque
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, young audiences
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    Keyword: siblings, poetry + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, young audiences
    Keyword: siblings, poetry, vegetarian, flamingos, performance art, Suburbs, dead parent
    Annie has roped her younger brother Denny into helping perform a dramatic poem at the local Burger King, but nobody shows up. Annie throws herself into the scummy dumpster and Denny has to literally talk her out of it.
  • And Then I Was In the Shark's Mouth by Megan Tabaque
    Cast: 
    2–3
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    Genre: drama, fable/folktale + 1 more
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    Keyword: death, ocean + 3 more
    Genre: drama, fable/folktale, romantic comedy
    Keyword: death, ocean, love, eternity, Relationships
    A woman contemplates her own mortality at the bottom of the ocean after being bitten in two by a shark.
  • Little Blue Boxes by Megan Tabaque
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, tragedy + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, tragedy, zoom
    Siblings Lex and Shea host a zoom memorial for their late mother, just after the death of her favorite game show celebrity, Alex Trebek.
  • Save Me, Sonja Henie by Megan Tabaque
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, experimental + 2 more
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    Keyword: ice skating
    Genre: comedy, experimental, fantasy, tragedy
    Keyword: ice skating
    An olympic hopeful bleeds out on the ice after a deadly collision with her mortal enemy, Stacey. As her soul leaves her body, early skating legends Ulrich Salchow and Sonja Henie glide through her reality.
  • The Francophiles by Megan Tabaque
    Cast: 
    7–20
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    Genre: comedy, experimental + 2 more
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    Keyword: one act high school play competition, one act play + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, experimental, farce, romantic comedy
    Keyword: one act high school play competition, one act play, A Family Comedy
    Camille is the most inept server at Red Lobster in Celebration, Florida until she decides to leave the cheddar biscuits behind her to pursue her dream job at Disney World. A mysterious French stranger steals Camille's heart away, and also, subsequently her kidney. The Francophiles is a global adventure about a lost kidney and a lost girl. ​​
  • Lightning Bulb Eggs by Megan Tabaque
    Cast: 
    4–6
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    Genre: comedy, experimental + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, experimental, fable/folktale, movement/physical
    Chale recounts the story of her entire life inside the strike of a single lightning bolt. A play with sounds.