Maggie Cregan is a playwright based in Cleveland, Ohio, whose work often features dark humor, difficult women, and themes of modern American life. Her short play Line Cooks like Baby Birds will run in the Santa Cruz Actors' Theatre's short play festival Eight 10s @ 8:00 in Jan–Feb 2026 and will be published in the December 2025 issue of The Coachella Review. Her play The Station ran in the SheNYC theater festival in the summer of 2024. The Station also received Pittsburgh Public Theater’s 2023 New Play Award. Maggie is pursuing opportunities to produce her work both on stage and on screen.
The Station
Gas station cashier Davina must take desperate measures when an alien conspiracy theory starts wreaking havoc in her small town. As a practicing hypochondriac and an adulterous born-again Christian, Davina entertains a few delusions of her own. But she can only watch incredulously and argue fruitlessly as the strongest person she knows, her foster mother, starts painting over windows and drinking piss.
With her relationships with her foster mother, foster sister, and (secret) boyfriend all hanging in the balance, Davina resolves to track down the mastermind behind the mysterious posts… and then must decide what to do with the culprit.
Leonora from 5:00 to 5:11
As a "bag lady" subjects her fellow subway riders to her personal philosophy and perfectly reasonable requests for a knife, a snapshot emerges of life on the fringes.
Line Cooks Like Baby Birds
Their son has committed a horrifying crime...at least, one of them thinks so.
The Foleys
Five gatherings -- two weddings, an engagement party, a burial (not a funeral), and Thanksgiving -- chart the rise and fall of five close-knit, lying, scrappy, wealthy siblings, whose father confesses to running a Ponzi scheme amid the Wall Street crash of 2008.
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