Megan Gogerty
Playwright/Comedian
Workshops: 1. Stand-up Comedy Writing Fundamentals. 2. Own Your Own Story.
Megan Gogerty is a playwright and comedian. A recipient of the Cloris Leachman Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement, 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 “FEAST” was named as a Critic’s Pick by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. 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 Foro Lucerna 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” premiered at Actors Express in Atlanta and 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 short play “Super Hot Raven” and “Raven II: The Ravening” is published in the anthology “The Best American Short Plays of 2015” by Applause Books.
Other plays include: “Housebroken” (Riverside Theatre, Hollins University) and “Save Me, Dolly Parton” (Riverside Theatre, Synchronicity Theatre; named among Best Plays in Atlanta by Creative Loafing). Megan was a Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellow, a WordBRIDGE alum, and she earned her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin.
Megan currently teaches playwriting and comedy studies at the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop and is a regularly returning visiting faculty for the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University.
Learn more about Megan: https://www.megangogerty.com/
Workshops
“Stand-up Comedy Writing Fundamentals.” How do comedians write jokes, and is it different from other kinds of writing? (Spoiler: yes!) This hands-on and friendly workshop can get you thinking about joke writing and will help you appreciate the writing chops of professional stand-up comedians.
“Own Your Own Story.” Everyone has a story to tell. Learn storytelling techniques, structural approaches, and developing a sense of audience to bring your autobiographical or semi-autobiographical story to life.