Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Megan Hayes knew from an early age that entertainment would be her calling. Megan spent most of her youth either playing superhero in her Wonder Woman Underoos or looking like a boy in a dress.

At 15, she discovered that the laughter of an audience was a euphoric drug when she performed in a school production of The Pajama Game. That performance sealed her fate — to devote her life to acting. After high school, Megan attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, all the while wondering, "What am I doing in the middle of Amish farms?" After her freshman year at Kenyon, she transferred to the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where she studied in the Experimental Theatre Wing.

After graduating with honors with a degree in Acting, Megan began writing and performing her own work. She founded Southern Belle Productions (SBP), a company dedicated to giving a voice to emerging artists. SBP produced a short film, several one-act plays, and Megan's full-length play "Opelika", which had two sold-out runs in New York. Despite her love for New York and everything it offered, Megan decided to return to Atlanta, which was a great decision given that her film and television career began there.

While continuing to participate in countless theater projects, Megan landed roles in the HBO series Eastbound & Down, the film What to Expect When You're Expecting, the IFC thriller +1 from The Last House on the Left director Dennis Iliadis, as well as numerous commercials and television episodes. However, by a stroke of luck, the second film in The Hunger Games trilogy — Catching Fire — was filmed in Atlanta. Megan landed the role of Morphling, a tribute from District 6.