Megan Rivkin
About Megan
Megan Rivkin is a playwright and educator based in New York, originally from Lincolnshire, Illinois. She received her M.F.A. in Playwriting from Columbia University, where she also served as a Teaching Consultant and Lead Teaching Fellow at the Center for Teaching and Learning. Rivkin is currently part of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and is developing two new musicals: Caleb Needs A Kidney (with composer/lyricist Caleb Martin-Rosenthal), and a musical adaptation of The Odyssey, for which she is writing the book in collaboration with composer/lyricist Jacob Ben-Shmuel. Her plays explore identity, technology, ethics, and complicated relationships through comedy. Recent works include Bar Play (222 Speakeasy, Providence Fringe), Do You Party? (Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival), Timmy (Columbia), and babybird (Providence Fringe). Rivkin is returning to Interlochen in the fall as the Academy’s 2025-2026 Writer-in-Residence.
M.F.A., Playwriting - Columbia University