Meghan Brown writes about dangerous women. She is an award-winning playwright, librettist/lyricist, and screenwriter based in California. Meghan has written over a dozen full-length plays and musicals that have been performed or developed at institutions across the United States, including Lincoln Center, Ensemble Studio Theater, Geffen Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Victory Gardens Theater, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Getty Villa.

She is a co-writer of the Lionsgate / Buzzfeed Studios comedy-thriller F*** Marry Kill, which will be released fall 2024 and has multiple film projects in active development.

Current theater projects include The Tasters (Kilroy’s List, nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn award, developed at JAW: A Playwrights’ Festival, and Victory Garden’s IGNITION festival), Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project commission BIGFOOT (upcoming NYC reading June 2024 as part of EST’s First Light festival), astronaut murder mystery play A Seam (developed in the Geffen Playhouse Writers’ Room), sex tragicomedy Much Ado About Nothing riff What Happened While Hero Was Dead, supernatural feminist rage musical These Girls Have Demons, and Hedy, a spectacle-forward German-language musical about Hedy Lamarr. She is currently a story consultant and script writer for the theatrical fire show The Calling by Flambeaux Fire.

Meghan wrote the lyrics for the 15-minute song cycle Untuned Ears Hear Nothing but Discord. Described as “a perfect theatrical moment” by Ira Glass, the piece premiered at Lincoln Center as part of In Need of Music: The Songs of Ben Toth with Lindsay Mendez (Wicked, Dogfight) as Emma Goldman. Watch the video here.

Her Ovation Award-winning play The Pliant Girls is frequently performed at universities around the country, from the American Conservatory Theater MFA program to the University of Florida and everywhere in between. The first ever high school version production at Notre Dame High School swept the 2024 CETA awards, earning it the distinction of that year’s best high school production in California.

She wrote the libretto for Operaworks’ community-based improvisational opera The Discord Altar, and the book and lyrics for Emma: No One But Herself with composer Sarah Taylor Ellis (available via Uproar Theatrics, performed in Washington DC, Orlando, Brooklyn, NYC, Los Angeles, and London).

She is repped by UTA and Curate Management.