You Must Wear a Hat
by C. "Meaks" Meaker
Tuesday and Weeks make hats on the Great Barrier Reef waiting for the world to end.
A play for two and a rabbit puppet.
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Currently Seeking Co-Production Support
Coming Soon 2024!
A play for two and a rabbit puppet.
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Currently Seeking Co-Production Support
Coming Soon 2024!
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
Reading, Hub Theatre, 2019
Reading, Kitchen Dog Theater, 2019
Reading, University of Iowa New Play Festival, 2018
Workshop, NNPN/Kennedy Center MFA Workshop, 2018
University, University of Iowa Workshop Production, 2018
Finalist, Leah Ryan FEWW, 2019
Semi-Finalist, O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, 2019
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
C. “Meaks” Meaker (they/she) is a playwright and screenwriter whose work often explores queerness, feminism, and the end of the world. Their plays have been performed and developed across the United States, including the Kennedy Center, Seattle Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, Annex Theatre in Seattle, and About Face in Chicago. They are a Stranger Award Genius Nominee (That’swhatshesaid), and Gregory Award Outstanding New Play Nominee (The Lost Girls). Their play That’swhatshesaid garnered international attention for using the female dialogue and stage directions of the most-produced plays in America (reported by Theatre Communications Group in American Theatre Magazine) as its inspiration and source material. They are a former Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center, an alumna of Seattle Repertory Theatre’s Writers Group, and former Walter E. Dakin Fellow at Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
Their nonfiction won the Editor’s Prize at Porter House Review (2023). They received an MFA in Playwriting from University of Iowa’s Playwrights Workshop. Instagram: @cmeaksmeaker / Twitter: @cmeak
C. “Meaks” Meaker (they/she) is a playwright and screenwriter whose work often explores queerness, feminism, and the end of the world. Their plays have been performed and developed across the United States, including the Kennedy Center, Seattle Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, Annex Theatre in Seattle, and About Face in Chicago. They are a Stranger Award Genius Nominee (That’swhatshesaid), and Gregory Award Outstanding New Play Nominee (The Lost Girls). Their play That’swhatshesaid garnered international attention for using the female dialogue and stage directions of the most-produced plays in America (reported by Theatre Communications Group in American Theatre Magazine) as its inspiration and source material. They are a former Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center, an alumna of Seattle Repertory Theatre’s Writers Group, and former Walter E. Dakin Fellow at Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
Their nonfiction won the Editor’s Prize at Porter House Review (2023). They received an MFA in Playwriting from University of Iowa’s Playwrights Workshop. Instagram: @cmeaksmeaker / Twitter: @cmeak
