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 Edinburgh Fringe, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Getty Villa.

She was a co-writer of the Lionsgate / Buzzfeed Studios comedy-thriller F*** Marry Kill, starring Lucy Hale, which was released theatrically in 2025. (Check out the trailer here, or stream now on Hulu!) Her second film, Public Relations, is currently in pre-production.

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, astronaut murder mystery play A Seam (developed in the Geffen Playhouse Writers’ Room), sex tragicomedy What Happened While Hero Was Dead, and supernatural feminist rage musical These Girls Have Demons. 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 plays are frequently performed at universities around the country, from the American Conservatory Theater MFA program to the University of Florida and everywhere in between.

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, developed in Washington DC, Orlando, Brooklyn, NYC, Los Angeles, and London).