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Meghan Brown
PlaywritingMeghan Brown writes about dangerous women. Her work has been produced or developed at institutions including Lincoln Center, Portland Center Stage, Victory Gardens, Pittsburgh CLO, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Getty Villa. She has written over a dozen full-length plays and musicals, including The Tasters, What Happened While Hero Was Dead, The Pliant Girls (Ovation Award winner, current Helen Hayes Award nominee), Cowboy Elektra (music by Z. Lupetin), EMMA: No One But Herself (music by Sarah Taylor Ellis), and These Girls Have Demons (music by Sarah Taylor Ellis). She wrote the libretto for The Discord Altar (OperaWorks), a musically-improvised, community-based opera focused on the Los Angeles housing crisis, and lyrics for Untuned Ears Hear Nothing But Discord (music by Ben Toth), a one-woman song cycle produced at Lincoln Center with Tony Award-winner Lindsay Mendez as Emma Goldman. She was a founding member of Los Angeles theater collective The Temblors, and spent five years as the resident playwright of Fugitive Kind Theater. Meghan’s current projects include astronaut murder mystery play A Seam (developed in the Geffen Playhouse Writers Room 2020/21), conspiracy theory suspense play Bigfoot (EST/Sloan commission 2023), and German-language musical Hedy. Meghan has multiple film projects in development, and was a co-writer of the Buzzfeed/Lionsgate movie F Marry Kill (2025).
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