Megan Rippey (she/her)
Actor, Writer
Megan “Reagan” Rippey (she/her) is an actor, performance artist, stripper, activist, writer, and union organizer. Originally from Baltimore, with a BA in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies from St. Mary’s College of Maryland, she completed her thesis on Performance & Spectatorship in the Red Light District while studying Gender Identity and Sexuality in Amsterdam. She also holds an MFA in Acting from the California Institute of the Arts and is an accredited film actor as well as an AEA Union theatre artist. In tandem with her professional acting career, she has been stripping in clubs for over 17 years. She worked as a dancer at Jumbos Clown Room for over ten years until she was fired for participating in a [failed] union campaign. When the clubs in Los Angeles shut down in 2020 she co-founded the Cyber Clown Girls Show, a dancer-operated virtual entertainment experience that empowered out-of-work dancers to perform from home on their own terms, make money to support themselves during the shutdown, and donate to meaningful causes (over $50,000 was donated to non-profits, mutual aid and other orgs). She has been featured in the LA Times, LA Weekly, Inside the Issues with Alex Cohen, & Mother Jones for her work with the Cyber Clown Girls. In 2021 she co-founded the Stripper Co-op, a hybrid virtual and in-person pop-up strip show in Los Angeles, which aims to “seize the means of seduction,” drawing inspiration from the worker-owned Lusty Lady in 1990s San Francisco. In 2022-2023 she was one of the leaders in the successful campaign to unionize the club Star Garden in North Hollywood with the theatre union Actors Equity, thereby originating Equity Strippers NoHo, the first stripper union of this century. She is currently very pregnant and unable to work, and thus wrote this show!
