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Megan J Riedl is a nationally recognised spoken word performer, collaborative theatre-maker, expert world-builder and master facilitator. Megan was awarded Queensland Poetry’s 2021 XYZ Innovation in Spoken Word Prize, and the Bob McKinnon Memorial Prize at Clunes Booktown Poetry Slam, 2025. Megan was an Australian Poetry Slam Victorian State Finalist for three years running, and a finalist for the 2019 Melbourne Spoken Word Prize. Megan’s poetry has been commissioned by Creative City Ballarat, CresFEST, the Ballarat Greens and Let’s Talk Peace, Ballarat and was one of two chosen artists for the inaugural Seedpod Ballarat residency program with Punctum Inc.
Megan has performed spoken word across the state, from Eureka Centre to Fed Square and exhibited work from the Immigration Museum to a vending machine at Geelong Library. She has writing, directing and producing credits with independent and community theatre companies across Victoria and is a regular dramaturg and facilitator for Melbourne Writer’s Theatre. An Arts Management graduate and alumni of Leadership Ballarat’s Leaders Program 2017, Megan was the Executive Assistant for Ballarat Arts Foundation for two years and has previously held board positions with Ballarat National Theatre, Ballarat Writers Inc and Spark Theatre. Before focusing on her creative practice, Megan worked as a creative health promotion facilitator, an administrator at a circus training institution, an actor’s agency receptionist, and a Secondary school teacher. Megan lives on stolen Wadawurrung land in Ballarat, VIC, Australia, with her two children, cat Mishka and dog Mook.
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