Meg Washington

Writer | Composer

Meg Washington is a singer, performer, songwriter, composer for screen and stage and, more recently, she has become a screenwriter. She is also a platinum-selling and ARIA award winning musician with extensive performing and song-writing experience ranging across musical styles from jazz to radio pop. 

As a writer and composer, Meg is currently in development with a production company and broadcaster to adapt the ABC podcast series CrossBread, for which she was a co-writer and composer, into a comedy television series. Meg along with her podcast co-writers won the 2021 Audio AWGIE for CrossBread. She has also written the songs and co-written the story for a new screen musical, The Deb, commissioned by Rebel Wilson’s production company Camp Sugar, in conjunction with Unigram and AI.

For the stage, Meg is currently under commission from Opera Queensland to write a new opera based on the Georgia Blain novel Between a Wolf and a Dog.

With artistic partner Nick Waterman, under their production company Speech & Drama Pictures, she is adapting the memoir Madness by Kate Richards into a television series with two major Australian production companies. Meg and Nick, with their production company are co-producing with Warner Bros Australia the feature film How to Make Gravy, based on the iconic Paul Kelly song, with them both co-writing, Megan as composer and Nick directing.  

Meg has composed the music for a number of screen projects including Warwick Thornton’s The Beach, David Wenham’s Ellipsis (2017) and Shannon Murphy’s Eaglehawk (2016). In 2022 she composed the music for season 2 of Fisk, co-created by and starring Kitty Flanagan, for Porchlight Films and the ABC, for which she was recently nominated for the 2024 AACTA Award for Best Original Score in Television, along with Daniel O’Brien.

As an actor, Meg is the voice of Calypso on the popular children’s TV show Bluey. She also starred in the musical thriller The Boy Castaways, directed by Michael Kantor, which premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival in 2013. 

In 2014, Meg delivered a TEDx talk about living with a stutter, yet being able to fluently sing. Her talk was selected by TED for its global platform, and has been viewed over 2 million times.

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