Megan Stalter is addictive. Try being around her for more than an hour and not adopting her mannerisms and her cadence—or feeling an infectious sense of joy that can only come from someone who is deeply and totally in the groove. Meg approaches everything she does, including our work together on Too Much, as if asking, How can we make this more joyful? Even if it’s a dark scene in a script, or a hard conversation, she injects it with her love of life and her belief in our interconnectedness, in our humanity. She wants people to walk away—from her comedy or her company—feeling better than when she found them. She can’t help but succeed. I love a lot about Meg—her talent, her wisdom, her wicked weirdness—but what I love most is her commitment to finding the pleasure in what she does and giving pleasure to the people she does it with, and for. I’m sorry if that sounds a little wrong, but Meg would want it that way.
Dunham is an Emmy-nominated director, writer, and actor