About Megan
Hailed by the Chicago Reader as “blonde-haired” and “blue-eyed,” Megan Gogerty is “a woman.”
She is also a playwright, performer and songwriter. Her artistic output was recently described as, “delightfully random.”
Her theatre credits:
Megan’s music-play LOVE JERRY was produced in the New York Musical Theatre Festival in 2008 as part of their Next Link Project series. It earned four NYMF Awards for Excellence – more than any other show in the festival – including Excellence in Writing (Book). It also earned three Talkin’ Broadway Summer Theatre Citations including Outstanding New Musical. In 2004 it toured England with Dartington College of the Arts before receiving its world premiere at Actors Express Theatre in Atlanta in 2006, where it was the target of a letter-writing campaign by the American Family Association. It garnered five Atlanta Suzi Bass Award nominations including Best Musical. A finalist of the Alliance Theatre’s KENDEDA Playwriting Competition, its production at UT-Austin earned seven B. Iden Payne Award nominations including Outstanding Original Script and Score, and five Austin Critic’s Table Award nominations including Best New Play.
Megan’s ten-minute play RUMPLE SCHMUMPLE premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC with ACTF where she was the winner of Atlanta’s Dad’s Garage Theatre Company 10-Minute Play Residency Award. RUMPLE SCHMUMPLE is included in Dramatic Publishing Co.’s 2005 anthology, THIRTY-FIVE IN TEN.
Other plays include: SIG GOTTA DO (Synchronicity’s SheWRITES Festival, Pasadena Playhouse Hothouse Series), HOBO SEASON (PlayLabs national finalist), BAD PANDA (WordBRIDGE 2008 Boomerang Playright; Syzygy Theatre/LA Writers Center reading series), and HILLARY CLINTON GOT ME PREGNANT (Riverside Theatre, Synchronicity Performance Group). She earned her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin. Megan has been a Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellow and was a grateful recipient of the James A. Michener Playwriting Scholarship and the Ellsworth P. and Virginia Conkle Endowed Scholarship for Drama.
What’s she really like?
Megan likes pineapple on pizza. Her favorite color used to be red but is now turquoise, which represents a general mellowing of her temperament. She has an extensive but by no means definitive collection of Dolly Parton albums; a charming personality; a sunny disposition only occasionally interrupted by bouts of moral outrage; a washtub bass, which she plays when provoked; a great fondness for Steve Martin, Chris Rock, and other great thinkers of our time. She enjoys the occasional Italian cream soda and writing about herself in the third person. If she had a choice between a wild, all-night orgy of disco-tacular sexy fun, or sitting on her couch reading Entertainment Weekly and eating peanut M&Ms, she’d probably choose the second thing.
