b.1980

Megan Mazarick (she/her) is a performer, choreographer, teacher, and mother. She received both her BFA (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and MFA (Temple University) in dance. As a choreographer, she makes work that is humorous, political, theatrical, and personal, often including text, improvisation, and love of fantasy.  Her choreography has been presented most frequently in Philadelphia (Live Arts Festival, nEW Festival, Philadelphia Dance Projects, PARD, Cannonball Festival, etc.) and New York City (Movement Research at Judson Church, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, Dance New Amsterdam, etc). She has toured throughout the USA (San Francisco, Minneapolis, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Maine, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia) as part of various dance festivals and events.  She has also shown work internationally at Atlas Festival’s Raw Materials Improvised Performance Series (Guanajuato, Mexico), Budapest’s Trafo Theatre, Bulgaria's BlackBox Theater and Dance Festival, Singapore Fringe Festival,  Zawirowania International Choreography Competition (Warsaw, Poland), Zielony Jazdow Festival (Warsaw, Poland), Gdansk Solo Dance Festival (Gdansk, Poland), By Chance Festival (Cairo, Egypt), and Contemporary Dance Night (Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt).  Most recently, she received the Audience Award for her piece, old swan, at the 2022 Gdansk Solo Dance Contest in Poland and was chosen as a 2024 Resident Artist for the Gdansk Dance Festival. She was a 2025 DanceVisions Resident Choreographer for the Performance Garage in Philadelphia and a MAP Grant Recipient for 2025-2026. As a performer she has worked with David Gordon, Susan Rethorst, Keith Thompson, Marianela Boan, Merian Soto, Blackbox Dance Theatre, and Anonymous Bodies.  She has taught at multiple universities and is an Assistant Professor at Rider University.