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I am Megan Choritz, an actor, playwright, theatre director, writer and improviser living in Woodstock. I have spent my life imagining and performing or creating performances for stage.

In September last year I swallowed my nerves and put out a call on Facebook to my theatre community and friends. For the duration of the pandemic, we had been locked down, cancelled, restricted, shut out, kept out and unconsidered. I was done. I explained that I couldn’t stand the ‘death of theatre’ narrative anymore and that I wanted to do something to move, or at least

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