I am a writer with a background in theatre and performance. My plays have been produced in theatres across the UK, such as Soho Theatre, The Traverse, The Tobacco Factory, The Tron Theatre and Sherman Cymru. I have also made numerous immersive performances for non-theatre spaces, including a network of crypts, a toilet cubicle, a multi-storey car-park, a roof-top and a basketball court.
I am interested in the mess, contradiction and discomfort of life, in all its beauty, joy, complication and pain. I try to find the fault lines in the familiar, in the hope of relearning the broken world around us, our relationship with it, and with each other. I try to look things in the eye. This is a time of emergency.
I live in Wales, where I was born.
Megan Barker
A very special voice… Blisteringly good…
Pithy, poetic, melodic, intense…
It’s clear why Barker’s plays propel folk into collaring their chums and telling them ‘you must see this.’ She has an ongoing heightened awareness of what that tingle factor feels like... Edgy, poetic and grotesque; funny yet bleakly brutal. (Feature, The Herald)
I am a writer from Wales with a background in theatre and performance. My plays have been produced in theatres across the UK and abroad. I have also made numerous immersive performances for mundane or neglected public spaces, including a network of crypts, a toilet cubicle, a multi-storey car-park, a roof-top and a basketball court.