:Draft:Megan Monaghan Rivas

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{{Short description|Dramaturg, Playwright, Academic Leader}}

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| name = Megan Monaghan Rivas

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| occupation = New Play Dramaturg, Playwright, Academic and Artistic Leader

| education = Emory University {{small|(BA)}}
University of Texas at Austin {{small|(MFA)}}}}

Megan Monaghan Rivas is a new play dramaturg, playwright, and academic leader. She is the Head of Dramatic Arts at the University of Connecticut and the Artistic Director of Connecticut Repertory Theatre.{{Cite web|url=https://www.americantheatre.org/2021/09/01/uconn-names-megan-monaghan-rivas-to-dual-leadership-role/|title=UConn Names Megan Monaghan Rivas to Dual Leadership Role|date=September 2021 }} Previous to this she served as Interim Head of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, where she also served as Associate Professor of Dramaturgy from 2013-2021.{{Cite web|url=https://drama.cmu.edu/news/new-leadership-at-the-school-of-drama/|title=New Leadership at the School of Drama}} Megan served as Associate Artistic Director at the Lark Play Development Center in New York City, and previously served as literary manager of South Coast Repertory, the Alliance Theatre, Frontera @ Hyde Park Theatre, and The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, MN.

She worked as a freelance dramaturg for the New Harmony Project,{{Cite web|url=https://www.newharmonyproject.org/2022|title=2002 Company of New Harmony Project|date=May 2022}} the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, TheatreSquared, Cleveland Public Theatre/Teatro Público de Cleveland,{{Cite web|url=https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2014-2015/johanna-facing-forward/|title=From the Dramaturg… (and what is a “dramaturg” anyway?)…|date=May 2015}} Quantum Theatre,{{Cite web|url=https://www.quantumtheatre.com/mellon-park-fits-adaptation-of-17th-century-dramedy/|title=Mellon Park fits adaptation of 17th-century dramedy|date=August 2016}} and Actors Express Theatre. Her professional affiliations include Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) where she served a term on the Board, Theatre Communications Group (TCG), Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), and NoPassport. In 2002 Megan was the recipient of the Elliott Hayes Prize in Dramaturgy.{{Cite web|url=chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://core.ac.uk/download/345769095.pdf|title=LMDA New & Noteworthy, December 2019 |date=December 2019}}