ABOUT MEGAN

Megan Bellwoar is a Barrymore Award nominated and critically praised actor and director. Her work has been seen at most theatres in the Philadelphia area – Arden Theatre Company, Walnut Street Theatre, Lantern Theatre Company, Inis Nua, Act II Playhouse, New Light Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, Quintessence Theatre Group, Hedgerow Theatre, and People’s Light, among others. For 25 years she was a director and teacher at Abington Friends School, nurturing her students to award-winning performances and crafting a program that was highly regarded in the independent school community. Since retiring from teaching she has engaged full-time with her freelance career as an actor and director.

 

She is drawn to work that is visually arresting, linguistically musical, and asks big questions of its artists and audiences; and her own work has been said to reflect this. As a director she loves the opportunities presented by “enabling constraints” – whether that be budget, space, cast size, or the text itself. She loves nothing more than collaborating with actors in crafting character and performance.

 

As a performer, her work has been described as “luminous,” “forthright,” “nuanced,” and “intelligent.” Mostly she just likes being in a room with other passionate people and playing with a script.

ABOUT MEGAN

Megan Bellwoar is a Barrymore Award nominated and critically praised actor and director. Her work has been seen at most theatres in the Philadelphia area – Arden Theatre Company, Walnut Street Theatre, Lantern Theatre Company, Inis Nua, Act II Playhouse, New Light Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, Quintessence Theatre Group, Hedgerow Theatre, and People’s Light, among others. For 25 years she was a director and teacher at Abington Friends School, nurturing her students to award-winning performances and crafting a program that was highly regarded in the independent school community. Since retiring from teaching she has engaged full-time with her freelance career as an actor and director.

She is drawn to work that is visually arresting, linguistically musical, and asks big questions of its artists and audiences; and her own work has been said to reflect this. As a director she loves the opportunities presented by “enabling constraints” – whether that be budget, space, cast size, or the text itself. She loves nothing more than collaborating with actors in crafting character and performance.

As a performer, her work has been described as “luminous,” “forthright,” “nuanced,” and “intelligent.” Mostly she just likes being in a room with other passionate people and playing with a script.

what they say

  • Ghostwriter: "It's uncanny how much meaning the sound of the keys conveys as Myra (played by the superb actress Megan Bellwoar) types away. She plays her machine as another might play a piano: passionately, evocatively, touching each key precisely. When Bellwoar hits a period, it's more than a full stop; it's a major character."

    Broad Street Review

  • LION IN WINTER/Commonwealth Classic Theatre: "Bellwoar is a nuanced mixture of passionate revenge and slick intelligence. She is a mountainous performer and gives the most cunning and wickedly delicious characterization to Queen Eleanor... Megan Bellwoar brings the level of the entire production up ten-fold."

    DC Theatre Arts

  • BEAUTY QUEEN/Lantern Theater: "In Bellwoar’s and Martello’s nuanced performances, the devious intentions lurking behind benign, everyday behavior are hilariously and chillingly revealed. At some points, Mag might particularly stir our sympathy, since Maureen is so often impatient with her whining — but then Martello reveals the wheels turning slyly in the old woman’s head as she concocts another passive-aggressive attack. So then maybe we feel more for Maureen, whose impatience is understandable — until we see how she purposely provokes her mother. The actresses and their characters are evenly matched, all the more so because neither fights for anything but the other’s continued misery."

    City Paper