Megan Hasse grew up on a horse farm in northern Virginia and now resides in New York City. She most recently joined the cast of Fiddler On The Roof at the Olney Theatre Center as a Swing. Other highlights from this year include a reading of the new play A Cherry Tree at The Producer’s Club in NYC (Bluejeans/Annie) and the Argyle Theatre’s West Side Story (Minnie, Somewhere Soloist). She also recorded new music by the composer Rosalind Reiss - you can listen to a sample HERE. You can find her teaching Yoga at NEW YORK YOGA and taking walks with her senior English Bulldog, Lulu.
Megan has performed at regional theaters such as the Mac-Haydn Theatre, Shenandoah Music Theatre, New Paradigm Theatre, and Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre. Her first staged concert reading was The Million Pound Bank Note, based on the Mark Twain story by the same name. This revival of the 1980s musical written by Barbara Reiss took place at the state-of-the-art concert venue at the Wesport Library in Westport, CT.
She also spent six months at sea onboard the Oceania Marina as Production Singer/Dancer where she created and performed a solo cabaret, “Songs from the Silver Screen”. She has performed with Reba McEntire at the Kennedy F. Center in Washington, DC in “An Evening of Achievement” (featured vocalist; “This Is Me” and “I Have A Dream”).
Megan trained at Montclair State University where she received a BFA in Musical Theatre. Favorite MSU credits include Company (April), Triumph of Love (Princess Leonide), West Side Story (Velma; "Somewhere" Soloist), and HAIR (Tribe; "Hare Krishna" Soloist).
Megan is also an experienced cellist and has played in the pit at MSU (The Threepenny Opera; The Last Five Years), Mac-Haydn Theatre (Hello, Dolly!), and Off-Broadway (Romeo and Juliet at The Gym at Judson).
Her brother, Dan Hasse, is a NYC-based director/teacher. You can view his work HERE.
"The true standout in the show is Megan Hasse as Sophie. Her beautiful, strong and obviously polished voice is ready for any Broadway assignment."
- The Winchester Star
"Megan Hasse as Gloria Thorpe, the reporter, shines."
- Berkshire On Stage
"The big delight in the role of Gloria Thorpe is Megan Hasse who blows the audience away with her Merman-like vocalising"
- Berkshire Bright Focus
"When Hasse sings 'The Name of the Game' and 'I Have a Dream' her voice is blindingly beautiful, really carrying the melody of these numbers with grace."
- TheatreBloom
"Megan Hasse gives the often dullsville ingénue role of Hope verve and particularity."
- The Columbia Paper