Megan Garbayo

New Media

Megan is a graduate of Emerson College with a B.A. in Visual Media Arts. She is a second generation Cuban American and studied Japanese for 4 years in high school and college. She currently produces and writes commercials, builds websites, and manages social media campaigns for Lara Media Services. She has extensive media production and creative development experience, with credits ranging from screenwriter to producer to assistant director.

She studied factual television production at the BBC in London, England. While abroad, she worked on attachment for The 5:19 Show as a research assistant and writer (and sometimes donned a penguin costume and gave “penguinterviews” with pop stars). In 2009, she was honored as a finalist at Austin Film Festival screenwriting competition. In 2011, she wrote and directed a 48 Hour Film Project that went on to screen in the “Best of 48 Hour Film Project Portland” showcase, where it won “Best use of Genre”.

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