About
Megan is an actor, singer, dancer based in New York City. You can most often find her on stage performing, drinking coffee, practicing yoga, or spending time outdoors. Originally from Montana, she spent a lot of time hiking, camping, skiing, biking, and geocaching.
After high school, she moved to the Windy City to continue working on her love for performing at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. There, she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BFA in Musical Theatre – Dance.
Some of her favorite credits include Mean Girls 1st National Tour (Karen U/S), The Prom 1st National Tour (Emma U/S), Dames at Sea (Ruby), Crazy for You, Anything Goes (Chastity), and Miss Misunderstood.
Karen Smith (Megan Grosso) is wonderful.
Linda Hodges
Broadway World
Megan Grosso is also wonderfully comical as their blithely dim-witted friend Karen.
Sam Hurwitt
The Mercury News
Fey has done us the favor of adding to the lexicon, giving us a slew of new material in the musical’s book that includes an almost wholesale rewriting of the character of Karen Smith – played last night by the brilliant Megan Grosso, stepping into the role from the ensemble but displaying some serious comedic chops in the vein of Julie Haggerty. I would say, in terms of new additions to the script, highlights mostly belong to Karen.
Jay Barmann
SFIST
Some of the evening’s best laughs come from the underplayed mean girl, Karen (Megan Grosso filling in for Morgan Ashley Bryant), who is a lot smarter than she thinks.
Chad Jones
Chad Jones’ Theater Dogs
Understudy Megan Grosso as the dim Karen was super funny. There wasn’t a moment where you didn’t have a smile watching her.
Lance Carter
Daily Actor
Understudy Megan Grosso was perfection as Karen, the self-described ‘dumb’ Plastic who sleeps around.
Pam Kragen
The San Diego Union-Tribune
For Tuesday night’s performance we are met with the Understudy for Emma, and Mr. Hawkins. From the first moment she steps onto the stage, Megan Grosso is a standout. Her first solo in “Just Breathe” captures our heart as her vocal power shines through and we travel along through the plight of her journey. Megan is top-notch here and should be commended for her performance.
Drew Eberhard
Broadway World
As each plastic gets her solo, their singing, dancing and acting are consistent with their characterization – Grosso in particular stands out with her over-enunciation of syllables and never-ending smiles… Grosso’s song about Halloween, “Sexy,’ is hilariously in-tune with the character of Karen. Aided by her long blonde locks and ability to perform charismatic idiocy, Grosso’s showing is stellar not only because of her vocals or dancing, but because of her acting chops. Karen is brought to life in a way that rivals Amanda Seyfried’s original film performance due to Grosso’s optimistic and reliably bubbly demeanor – and the occasional brilliant fourth-wall-breaking one-liner.
Katherine Shok
The Daily Californian
‘You Happened,’ featuring Grosso and West and the ensemble, is touching and teenaged…The show’s anchors, Grosso, Balan, and Wetzel, are splendid throughout. Grosso’s ‘Just Breathe’ and ‘Unruly Heart’ reveal what the real stakes are for a teen coming out.
Paul Lamar
The Daily Gazette
‘The Prom’s heart may belong to Broadway but its soul belongs to Emma (played – and very effectively, I might add – on the night I saw ‘The Prom’ by Kaden Kearney’s understudy Megan Grosso); and Kalyn West in a heart-wrenching performance as Emma’s secret girlfriend, Alyssa. Their memorable duet, ‘Dance With You,’ is filled with grace, love, hope.
Jeffrey Borak
The Berkshire Eagle