“Considerable charm” - Vulture.com

Megan Patsel is a Los Angeles based comedian known for her short film The Weird Cousin (2020) and stage musical “Trey the Play.”

In 2014 Patsel graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a B.A. in Theatre Arts and moved to New York City to study at the Upright Citizens Brigade. In 2015 she was tapped to join the writer’s room of one of the theatre’s most longstanding sketch shows, “The Livia Scott Sketch Program.”

With producing partner Mary Beth Barone, Patsel has written and directed over 20 sketches, shorts and stage productions from 2015 on, including the 2017 film Mary Beth’s Sex Tape. In 2019 she wrote a jukebox musical “Trey the Play” and directed workshops of the production in New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

Following the premiere of her latest short, The Weird Cousin, Patsel is polishing her pilot “Girl Dad,” penning a feature film, and is currently seeking representation.

FILM & TV WORK

COMEDY

The Weird Cousin (2020)

Stuck indefinitely in her childhood home, surrounded by joyful younger cousins and a more successful younger sister, aspiring musician Megan becomes fixated on her place in the family, be it as a black-sheep or not.

Official Selection: Los Angeles International Short Film Festival (December 2020)

Finalist: Best Mobile Short

Finalist: Best Web or New Media

Official Selection: NoBudge.com (January 2021)

Trey the Play (2019 -)

A jukebox musical by Megan Patsel, based on the music from the 2007 album, “Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus.”

Trey the Play takes place in a time, at a school. Vague? You’ll get used to it-- this school isn’t like other schools! This school has a formal ban on drama, forbidding all students from any sort of juicy gossip, romance, or bickering that they'd like to participate in.

Mary Beth’s Sex Tape (2017)

Mary Beth is a hard-working comedian with little notoriety to show for it. At this point, she’s willing to leak her own sex tape in order to get famous. With the help of her well-intentioned but misguided agent Smith (Michael Cruz Kayne), Mary Beth hires a provocative sex writer (Tea Hacic) and an enthusiastic but incompetent student director (Megan Patsel). Together, they set out to script, cast, and film the world’s first ever stand-up comedy sex tape.

Official Selection: NoBudge.com (August 2018)