Megan Choritz is a South African born playwright, actor, writer, director, and improviser who lives in Cape Town and shares her home with Marsha the Most cat. She has spent all of her life making things up.
Megan graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1986 and worked as an actress before starting her own improvisation troupe in Cape Town. She has written and co-written numerous plays and musicals, performed and directed theatre, and she improvises and teaches improv. She also writes short stories, poems and children’s stories. Her plays The Tent, Drive with Me and Clouds Like Waves have achieved critical acclaim. Lost Property, her debut novel, was incredibly well received, and made the Sunday Times long list in 2024.
Megan is a member of South African Jews for a Free Palestine, and Mothers 4 Gaza, and is involved in pro-Palestinian and local activism.
