Biography
Megan Mostyn-Brown. Plays include: Girl, The Secret Lives of Losers, Going After Alice, Lizards, Objects Are Closer Than They Appear, The Bends, Nora Gets a Boyfriend, Nancy Blue: Girl Detective and The Rest of Your Life. Productions: The Guthrie Theater, The Cherry Lane Theater, Union Station Theater, Carelton College, NYC International Fringe Festival, MadCat Theater, The 52nd Street Project and The Actor's Theater of Louisville apprentice program. Workshops: New York Stage and Film, The Women's Project, LAByrinth Theater Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Public Theater, The Warehouse Theater, New Georges, Barrington Stage Company, The Old Vic/ New Voices New York Exchange, The Tribeca Theater Festival, Duke University and The HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, CO. Cherry Lane Mentor Project (mentor: Theresa Rebeck).
Honorable mention: Herrick Theater Foundation New Play Competition. Inaugural winner: Leah Ryan FEWW award. Recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan commission.
Girl was turned into a sound play by Coyote Rep and is available as a podcast on I-Tunes. Girl, The Secret Lives of Losers and Lizards are published by Samuel French. Her short play for teens The Woods are for Suckers and Chumps is published in the 2011 edition Shorter, Faster, Funnier.
Member of LAByrinth Theater Company and the 2010-2011 P73 Writers Lab. Former member of Women's Project Playwrights LAB and a guest playwright at New River Dramatists, The Orchard Project, The Royal Court Theatre, The Rockefeller Foundation and the 24/7 Lab.
She is a graduate of Northwestern University.
