MC Crosby

By adelyn-1800, 17 January, 2024
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Meghan Crosby, also known as MC (she/they), is a global playwright, performer, and choreographer. They received a certificate in playwriting from the University of Glasgow in 2013. That same year, their dance-infused play Sleeping Soldiers received four stars at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival and was a semi-finalist for Amnesty International’s Freedom of Expression Award. Their dystopian play S-T-I-T-C-H was a finalist for the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting in 2014. A worldwide writer and teacher, MC’s work has been produced alongside their theatre courses in New York City, Scotland, China, Singapore, Indonesia, and Madagascar. They are currently based in Singapore. With over fifteen plays staged in New York, other NYC playwriting highlights include Imprint (2015), Little Feet Big Dreams (2017), Hear Them Roar (2018), A Woman in Your Life (2018), Clique (2019), Um…Om (2019), Patty (2020), Prom Dress (2020), and Arcade Gym (2021). More than ten of MC’s plays and poems have been published by Smith and Kraus, Faces of America, Fresh Words, Masque and Spectacle Magazine, Literature Today, and other media sources. MC was a finalist for the Playwrights’ Center 2020-21 McKnight National Residency and Commission. In 2020, they won the Kaufman Playwriting Award for their play Um…Om. MC uses their own unique style of “movement theatre” to create socially conscious art addressing gender and Queer identity, body image, global mindedness, and the destigmatization of rape and sexual assault.

Photography by Court Renna

Last Updated: January 2024

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crosbymeghan@gmail.com
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