Chipmunk'd

by Megan Gogerty

When comedian Megan Gogerty gets bit by a chipmunk, it sets off an increasingly alarming chain of calamities, causing her to wrestle with the question: what do we do when we don't know what's coming?

Starring: Heidi Hacker as Megan Gogerty

Written by: Megan Gogerty

Directed by: Natalie Thomas

BIOS

Megan Gogerty is a playwright and comedian. Her solo show Lady Macbeth and Her Pal, Megan played the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and won the Audience Pick of the Fringe at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Her play Bad Panda (Theatre Without Borders, Beijing; Iron Crow Theatre Co.; WordBRIDGE Boomerang Playwright honoree) is published by Original Works Publishing and was translated into Spanish for a five-month run at Del Teatro Milan in Mexico City. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution listed her solo show Hillary Clinton Got Me Pregnant in their yearly Top Ten Best Plays. Megan’s musical drama Love Jerry was produced in the New York Musical Theatre Festival where it won three Talkin’ Broadway Citations and four NYMF Excellence Awards including Excellence in Writing (Book). Her ten-minute play Rumple Schmumple (Dramatic Pub.) was a Kennedy Center/National ACTF honoree. Other plays include: Housebroken (Riverside Theatre, Hollins University); Save Me, Dolly Parton (Riverside Theatre, Synchronicity Theatre; named among Best Plays in Atlanta by Creative Loafing). Her musical tribute album to the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer is widely available online. Megan was a Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellow, a WordBRIDGE alum, and she earned her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin. She currently teaches playwriting at the University of Iowa and is a regularly returning visiting faculty for the Playwright's Lab at Hollins University.

Heidi Hecker is very happy to be appearing in this tour de force which is Chipmunked! She can be seen cooking up mischief in Zero Day on Netflix, shamelessly judging people on Law & Order and suffering an untimely death in FBI: Most Wanted. She also recently appeared in the world premiere of A Dance Above the Grave at Theater LATEA in the NY Theater Festival. Her recent training includes The Barrow Group with Lee Brock and Seth Barrish as well as at MN Studios with Matt Newton. Big thanks to Dale and her kids for all their support as well as her reps at Adunni Rose and Stalwart Talent. And a big Thank You to Natalie for inviting me to the party!

Natalie Thomas (Director) is a Brooklyn-based Director & Theatermaker. She has directed works appearing at Theater for the New City (Persephone Palmer Steps Out, Caitlyn Waltermire), Queens Short Play Festival (The List, Director – Finalist), Curious New Voices Festival (Accidental, Jina Valdez), and the Rat NYC (The List, Eleanor Evans-Wickberg). She has worked in production roles on shows appearing at Curious Theatre Company (The Secretary, John Kyle Schmidt), The Public Theater (Human Error, Eric Pfeffinger), Chain Theatre (Hope Springs Internal, Eleanor Evans-Wickberg) and various works at Visionbox Studio, and is the current Production Administator for the Glimmerglass Musical Theatre & Opera Festival in Cooperstown, NY.She has trained at the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Center, and received her BA in Theater Studies from Bennington College.