Megan Tabaque

Megan Tabaque

Megan Tabaque is a Filipina-Canadian 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, and Vanderbilt University among others. She is a James A. Michener Fellow, Kundiman Fiction Fellow, Sewanee Writers’ Conference Scholar, Seattle Public Theater Emerald Prize...
Megan Tabaque is a Filipina-Canadian 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, 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, and a 2021 Four Seasons Residency nominee. She is currently developing a brand new play about conspiracy theorists and human trafficking in Asian American communities titled Marry Me, Bruno Mars for Emory University’s Brave New Works festival. Megan earned her MFA in Playwriting and Fiction from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, TX. She currently resides in Atlanta, where she is the 2021-2023 Emory Fellow of Playwriting and also the writers assistant to celebrated playwright and tv writer, Sheila Callaghan.

Plays

  • Marry Me, Bruno Mars
    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 young woman named Brit asks paparazzo, Jason, to free her from her TV host father Creon’s clutches. This pop Greek tragic slash fever dream bears resemblance Medea but with a music video twist.
  • Cycle Play
    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
    In the Santos home, an alligator stalks, a mother talks to her car, a prodigal daughter binges on cereal, a devoted son raises lizards, and a neighbor's dog vanishes. Funny, surreal and strange, Decapitations is a ghost story exploring multi-racial Filipino identity in the swamps of central Florida.
  • Galactic Orphans
    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)
    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
    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
    A woman contemplates her own mortality at the bottom of the ocean after being bitten in two by a shark.
  • Little Blue Boxes
    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
    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
    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. ​​