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Playwright. Comedian. Delightful person.

Megan Gogerty

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Chipmunk'd

A new solo show

Sep 9 - Oct 2, 2022
Riverside Theatre
Iowa City, IA

1 W. 60 min.

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When comedian Megan Gogerty gets bit by a chipmunk, it sets off an increasingly alarming chain of events. A sexy comedy about existential dread, our hero asks: What do we do when we don't know what's coming? 

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The TetheR

A Pandemic play

A play for an audience of one household, performed on your lawn or sidewalk.

FEAST.

1 W. Run time: 60 min.

An immersive, visceral theatre experience where mythology crashes into pop culture, FEAST. reimagines an ancient myth as a cautionary tale against the rising forces of authoritarianism.

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VIRTUAL VERSION ALSO AVAILABLE

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PLAYS

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SCRIPT

Lady Macbeth and Her Pal, Megan

Lady Macbeth is a tragic figure of powerful darkness, and Megan is the human equivalent of a golden retriever. Award winning solo comedy.

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Bad Panda

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.

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Save Me, Dolly Parton

She's read all the books. Bookmarked all the blogs. She should totally have this parenting thing down. 

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ABOUT

ABOUT MEGAN

Megan Gogerty is a playwright and comedian. Named Best Comedian of the CRANDIC by Little Village, 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: FEAST. (Riverside Theatre, Know Theatre of Cincinnati); 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.

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