Meghan R. Ross

Meghan Ross is a New York-born, Jersey-raised, Austin-based writer, director, producer, comedian, and activist who loves to create comedy that has as much heart as humor while making social issues more accessible than miserable. She studied business at Boston University and trained at the UCB Theatre, completing the Advanced Sketch and Improv programs, if any of that matters to you. She’s currently in development for her feature directorial debut, THE DECISION, with co-writer Shruti Saran. The script was a finalist for the Sundance Development Track 2024 and the 1497 Features Lab 2024.

As a director, she’s part of the Blackmagic Collective Emerging Filmmaker Initiative and as a screenwriter, she’s part of The Tasajillo Residency and Rideback Rise Circle. She was also selected for the Women at Sundance Adobe Fellowship, Sundance Episodic Lab, NewNarratives grant from NewFilmmakers LA & Warner Bros. Discovery’s OneFifty, and Table Read My Screenplay: Park City’s Top 10 Finalists for her half-hour comedy Here to Make Friends (also her personal tagline). With their support (and support from viewers like you) she turned it into a short film proof of concept (which you can kindly ask her to send).

Her other half-hour comedy, Jezebel Saves the World, received numerous accolades from script competitions, if that’s also important to you. You can request to read that script here. Her previous shorts premiered on The New Yorker and made their Best of 2020 list: If You Ever Hurt My Daughter, I Swear to God I’ll Let Her Navigate Her Own Emotional Growth featuring narration by Jon Hamm (nominated for The Webby Awards), and Finally a Female Presidential Candidate Likable Enough For Men featuring narration by Rachel Bloom.

From 2015-2020, she hosted, wrote, and produced That Time of the Month, an award-winning late night show with an all-women-and-non-binary lineup, featured in NYMag’s Vulture, Time Out New York, Austin’s NPR station KUT, and partnered with Amazon Studios film Late Night by Mindy Kaling. Her writing has been published in VICE, Reductress, The Toast, IFC, TV Without Pity, Slackjaw, and more. She frequently hosts and performs at events for progressive causes, was a lead organizer for Swing Left Austin, and is currently on the board of directors for the LBJ Library’s Future Forum.