Megan Brewer

I am a migrant, neurodivergent, queer, London-based theatre director and producer originally from Seattle, WA, USA. I have trained and worked in multiple countries, including the United Kingdom, United States, and Russia.

I primarily enjoy devised pieces, new plays, and adaptations, though I spent the beginning of my career in Shakespeare and musical theatre. Most of the work I do is ensemble-based and highly collaborative. Lately, I've been foraying into audio pieces and multimedia and am interested in pursuing other forms of performance in addition to traditionally structured theatre.

I believe theatre is inherently political and prioritize work that uplifts and amplifies underrepresented voices without overriding them with my own. I am also the co-founder of Halfpace Theatre, a migrant-led company dedicated to new and devised work by underrepresented artists.

You can check out some of my previous work at megancbrewer.com and Halfpace Theatre's work at halfpacetheatre.com

Credits

- UPCOMING WORK -

DIRECTOR, Intransigent Lines, Box of Tricks, 1 week (workshop), 2024

- PREVIOUS CREDITS -

DIRECTOR, Transit (devised), The Space Theatre, 1 week, 2023

DIRECTOR, Intransigent Lines, Bloomsbury Festival, 1 day (reading), 2023

DIRECTOR, The Society for New Cuisine, Underbelly Cowgate @ Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 3.5 weeks, 2023

DIRECTOR, fester 2.0 (devised), Bridge House Theatre, 3 week R&D with 2 showings, 2022 (ACE funded)

DIRECTOR, Bluebeard (devised), Halfpace Theatre / Blue Elephant Theatre, 1 week R&D with 1 showing, 2021

DIRECTOR, Hill Behind the Hill, Tristan Bates Theatre, 1 week, 2021

DIRECTOR, fester (devised), Halfpace Theatre / The Cockpit, 1 week, 2021

DIRECTOR, where the heart is (devised), Digital/Audio Anthology, 2021

CO-DIRECTOR, Given, Formed, Found (devised), Theatre Mémé, 1 week (workshop), 2020

DIRECTOR, The Devil and the Shoemaker (adaptation), GITIS Theatre / Russian Seasons (Moscow, Russia), 1 week, 2020

CO-DIRECTOR, Borders, Objects, and Crossings (devised), East 15 Creative Lab, 1 night (workshop), 2020

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Top Girls, East 15 Acting School, 1 week (digital/Zoom), 2020

DIRECTOR, Phoenix Rising (devised), Littlewood Studio, 1 night, 2019

DIRECTOR, An Evening With Edgar Allen Poe, NW Playwrights Alliance, Tour, 2019 - present

DIRECTOR, Watson & Sherlock, ACT Theatre Young Playwrights Festival, 1 week, 2019

DIRECTOR, Two Heads of a Hydra, NowHereThis, 1 night (workshop)

DIRECTOR, Legally Blonde, Seattle Musical Theatre, 3 weeks, 2018

DIRECTOR, As You Like It, REBATEnsemble, 3 weeks, 2018

DIRECTOR, We Should Be Women (devised), NowHereThis, 1 week, 2018

DIRECTOR, Peter Pan, Kitsap Forest Theater, 2 weeks, 2018

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Industry, 5th Avenue Theater NextFest, 1 week, 2018

DIRECTOR, I Spy with My Little Eye, Horse in Motion IRL: Instagram Fest, 1 week, 2018

DIRECTOR, feed\back (devised), NowHereThis, 2 weeks, 2017

DIRECTOR, Kiss Me, Kate, Seattle Musical Theatre, 3 weeks, 2017

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Coriolanus: Fight Like a Bitch, Rebel Kat Productions, 5 weeks, 2017

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Annie, Seattle Musical Theatre, 3 weeks, 2017

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Sweeney Todd, Seattle Musical Theatre, 3 weeks, 2016

DIRECTOR, Hamlet (adapted), Undergraduate Theater Society, 2 weeks, 2016

DIRECTOR, Urinetown, Stage Notes, 2 weeks, 2016

Plus additional workshops & R&Ds as director & producer.

Training

Master of Fine Arts (with Distinction), Theatre Directing: East 15 Acting School (2021)

Bachelor of Arts, Drama: University of Washington (2016) (Seattle, WA)

Russian Seasons & Innopraktika School, Theatre Session (Moscow, Russia)

GITIS Directing Intensive: Stanislavskian Analysis & Meyerhold’s Biomechanics (Moscow, Russia)

Shakespeare Intensive: Seattle Public Theater

Other courses and workshops include puppetry, stage combat, movement, choreography, lighting design, sound design, and others.