Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Megan Murtha

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: NEW YORK
MacDowell Fellowships: 2015, 2017

Megan Murtha is a theater maker (playwright, director, composer, curator, performer) whose work has been performed at The Tank, Classic Stage Company, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, The Bushwick Starr, BAX, and inside a 1999 Cadillac DeVille. Her most recent show, We're Imploding: A Toy Theatre Double-Feature, performed at The Tank last fall, was a continuation of her toy theater puppet collaboration with visual artist Mark Fox. She is a two-time MacDowell Fellow, a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow, and has been a visiting artist at Bucknell University and St. Mary's College of Maryland where she led object theatre workshops, a medium she has been working in since 2014. Her original music compositions have appeared in her theater work since 2015, as well as in the stand-alone show, Songs of Go and Pending, performed by her Healing Choir at Uncanny Valley in Brooklyn (2017). She teaches writing at New York University.


Studios

Calderwood

Megan Murtha worked in the Calderwood studio.

In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…

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