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In The Theatre

Maggie Munday is a playwright who writes about relationships unexpectedly forming and changing when people who seem dissimilar find themselves in a space together, whether in line for an indie rock concert or on a religious pilgrimage. In addition to playwriting, Maggie Munday also works on musical theatre projects as a librettist and lyricist.

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Walk Along​​

A New Musical

Book and Lyrics by Maggie Munday Odom, Music by Casey Weisman
Full length, Drama​

Two American siblings, Blake and Dawn, walk the Camino de Santiago to grieve and honor the memory of their late younger sister, June, but in order to finish the five-hundred-mile Catholic pilgrimage together, they must reconcile their disparate beliefs and their different understandings of what it means to be a family. An airy, ambient folk score accompanies them throughout their journey, as blisters form, storms brew, and memories from their past resurface. Walk Along is a story of siblings grappling with going different directions and remembering to love each other, despite their differences, in order to heal.

Development History:

  • Northwestern University Department of Religious Studies, Theta Alpha Kappa Award for Most Innovative Research, June 2026 

  • Production, Arts Alliance & WAVE Special Event, Presented by Department of Performance Studies & Office of Undergraduate Research, with support from Department of Religious Studies, Northwestern University, dir. Quinn Kennedy, January 2026

  • Conference Presentation, Institute for Pilgrimage Studies Symposium at William and Mary, November 2025

  • Academic Year Undergraduate Research Grant, Northwestern Office of Undergraduate Research

  • Informal Workshop Reading, Northwestern University, dir. Talia Hartman-Sigall, January 2025​

For more information:

Walk Along Show Website

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meanwhile the sun

One act play, Drama​

Azalea, an internet blogger in search of some “inspo,” knocks on the door of poet Mary Oliver. Her pesky questions unearth Mary’s memories of her life and love with photographer Molly Malone Cook. meanwhile the sun imagines moments in Mary Oliver’s life, dancing from her time at Steepletop to her years at Blackwater Pond to her last years in Hobe Sound, interspersed with Azalea’s enthusiastic blog posts on www.MyWildAndPreciousLife.Com. A love letter to Mary Oliver’s work and world that asks: what it means to be vulnerable as an artist? What does it mean to let the world in?

Development History:

  • Production, WAVE Productions Director’s Fest, Northwestern University, dir. Marcus Dowd, April 2025​

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foragers: or, what will live on

10 minute play, Drama​

Norma and Ethel live and love together in the Western North Carolina mountains. Ethel is determined to be recognized and laureled by the North American Mycological Association with the Mushroom Discovery Award for the pair’s efforts as amateur citizen scientists. Norma isn’t so sure. One rainy day, Ethel discovers what she believes to be a never-before-catalogued species of fungi, sparking a struggle between relationship and recognition. Informed by the fields of queer ecology and queer mycology, foragers is a celebration of the worlds we make and discover together. Alongside Norma and Ethel, we wonder: is love enough of a legacy to leave behind?

Development History:

  • Production, Vertigo Productions 10 Minute Play Festival, Northwestern University, dir. Ani Lawit, April 2025​

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I WOULD DO ANYTHING 4 U!

Full length play, Drama​tic comedy

Early one sticky sweet summer morning, four young superfans of the indie rock musician Mango Fortuna meet waiting in line for her concert. Set partly in this line and partly in the online realm of stan Twitter, this whirlwind of a play is an unfiltered celebration of queer girlhood in all its raunchy fan-fiction-smut absurdity and its deeply-earnest glory. In a world where the internet brings out the worst and truest parts of us, and where fandom can both hide hurts and also be a means to heal,  I WOULD DO ANYTHING 4 U! is an anthem to the obsession and community of fangirl-dom.

Development History:

  • Staged Reading, Vertigo Productions Winter Reading Series, Northwestern University, dir. Haley Groth, February 2025​

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Awards:

  • Honorable Mention, Dartmouth College Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards, 2024

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Other Dramatic Works

Bad Habit

Short film, Drama

A nun and a stripper, both struggling with depression and loneliness, meet on the rooftop of a parking garage. An allegorical tale about the many versions of ourselves that somehow coexist and that are all okay as they are.

  • Max Saines Short Film Grant Winner, Studio 22 Productions, dir. Jankhna Sura, 2024

The Surly Bonds of Earth

One act play, Drama

A teen perspective on the 1986 Challenger disaster.

  • Staged Reading, Le Jardin Academy, dir. RKevin Doyle, 2022

  • Production, The Kinkaid School, dir. Ainsley Powers, 2022

  • Staged Reading, Columbia Basin College, dir. Shea King, 2022

  • Production, The Blank Theatre Young Playwrights Festival, dir. Michael Matthews, 2020

  • Winner, The Blank Theatre Young Playwrights Festival, 2020

EVERY FIFTEEN MINUTES: #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence

Interstitial material for anthology

Commissioned by the #ENOUGH project to write interstellar material connecting the winners of the 2022 youth playwriting contest.

Big

10 minute play, Drama

A proclamation of body acceptance and empowerment through spoken word poetry.

  • Podcast Production, Writopia Lab Worldwide Plays Festival, dir. David Blasher, 2020

  • Top Finalist, “Big,” Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Young Playwrights Festival, 2020

  • 1st Place High School Division, “Big,” Writopia Lab Worldwide Plays Festival, 2020

Touch Screen

Full length play, Drama

Intertwined vignettes reflecting on coming-of-age and falling in love during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Production, TJ Stage at Governor Thomas Johnson High School, dir. Kristen M. Ion, 2021

  • Production, Grove School Theatre, dir. Emily Hope Webster, 2020

  • Semifinalist, The Blank Theatre Young Playwrights Festival, 2021

Praying to Oreos

Full length play, Drama

A questioning of morality and faith in the midst of chronic pain

  • Best Youth Play Runner-Up, Playbuilders of Hawai’i Play Festival, 2020

Thoughts on the Size of the Universe

One act play, Drama

 A rooftop conversation on girlhood, love, and our place in the cosmos

  • Production, O’ahu Fringe Festival, self-directed, 2019

  • Semifinalist, The Blank Theatre Young Playwrights Festival, 2019

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Photos: Juliet Allan, Kate Pollot, Claude Wei Zhang, Tone Jackson

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