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

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

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.