Megan Terry came to international prominence in the 1960s as a playwright with the Open Theatre and as the author of Viet Rock (1966), America's first play about the Vietnam War. She is a prolific wri...
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Megan Terry is a social-activist playwright best known for her highly topical plays that incorporate song, storytelling, spectacle, and improvisation. Since the mid 1950s she has created more than six...
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In the following essay, Terry discusses her passion for writing and her everyday, artistic life.
I was bused to the theatre at the age of seven. There was a program, sponsored by the Junior League, to...
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In the following interview, Betsko and Koenig cover an array of topics including how Terry describes her creative process to the message the author would like to convey to the world.
Megan Terry was b...
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In the following lecture, Terry discusses her life in theater, focusing on the need of individuals to give of themselves in order to make a difference in the world.
I think it's more fun to thi...
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In the following interview, Terry discusses her play Turn Your Headlights On.
In 1969 Jo Ann Schmidman, a young actress, founded a theatre in Nebraska amid the rolling plains of middle America. She na...
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Below, Londré provides a brief overview of Terry's career followed by a 1989 interview covering an array of topics.
From her days as a founding member of the Open Theatre in New York (19...
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In the following excerpt, Marranca and Dasgupta critique Terry's career, focusing on the author's use of various styles.
Megan Terry began her theatrical career in the mid-fifties in Sea...
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In the following excerpt, Keyssar explores Terry's extraordinary impact on feminist theater, contending that her work does not invite radical revolution but instead calls attention to the power...
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In the following essay, Klein concentrates on the meaning and power of the language in Terry's musicals.
American King's English for Queens is the most clearly articulated of Megan Terry...
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In the following essay, Schlueter discusses how Terry's transformational drama acknowledges the extent to which the self is shaped by modern culture.
In order “to make it,” we nee...
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In the following essay, Babnich provides an in-depth discussion of Terry's Family Talk, including an interview with the author.
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For the last ten years Megan Terry, playwright in residence at ...
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In the following essay, Breslauer and Keyssar examine Terry's Mollie Bailey's Traveling Family Circus, a play that shows people how to make a difference in their world.
When Megan Terry ...
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Megan Terry
