Mar 18 2025 71 mins 1
Playwright Megan Gogerty streamed into the Playwright's Spotlight right before the opening of her one-woman show and reimagining of the story of Beowulf. It's a fascinating episode with tons of wisdom to take in, unpack, and apply. We discuss one-person adaptations and letting the play be itself, the importance of intuition, the use of two ideas that collide, and knowing what the question is. We delve into the structure of a one-person vs multi-actor piece, the structure of a one-person show, the audience as another character, smaller markets and selling widgets, who you vs who knows you, accessibility, gatekeeping, and asking for permission, and the role of the audience and making them ask questions. The more this podcast grow, the more every episode offers something new. Megan delivers. Enjoy. AND, if you're in the LA area be sure to catch the West Coast premiere of her production FEAST at The Count's Den through April 6th through the ticket link below -
https://events.immersiveartcollective.org/events/immersiveartcollective/1511665
Megan Gogerty is a playwright and comedian. Her solo show Lady Macbeth and her Pal, Megan played at 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. She was a Playwright’s Center Jerome Fellow, A WordBRIDGE alum, and 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.
For tickets to FEAST through April 6th, 2025, visit - https://events.immersiveartcollective.org/events/immersiveartcollective/1511665
To watch the video format of this episode, visit - https://youtu.be/ZJBqlXMom-8
Links to resources mentioned in this episode -
Know Theatre of Cincinnati - https://www.knowtheatre.com
Walking Shadow Theatre Company - https://www.walkingshadow.org
Lenaea High School Theatre Festival - https://www.lenaea.org
Moving Arts - https://movingarts.org
Original Works Publishing - https://www.originalworksonline.com
New Play Exchange - http://newplayexchange.org
Website and Socials for Megan Gogerty -
Website - www.megangogerty.com
BlueSky - @megangogerty
TikTok - @megangogerty
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IG - @alakardrake
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