​Published author, prize-winning playwright, freelance writer, award-winning historian, old-home renovator, and critically-acclaimed theater and documentary director and producer.

I'm retired, but my stories and theatrical works are here for anyone to read or produce. Drop me a line any time at meredith.mcmath@gmail.com

​Most recent freelance article, spring 2023. This is about my Grandmother, Virginia Hay - an amazing fashion designer.

BLOG POSTS

WRITING

• The Professional Daydreamer
• What Would Mark Twain Do?
• Why Do We Write?

LOVE

• Time Enough
• A Valentine's Story
• A Wedding to Remember - written by Maxine Hay Bean, 1924-2014

HISTORY

• Out of the Ordinary: Life in Hillsboro, Virginia
• And a Straight Jacket for the Editor: Three Pro-Union Women Journalists Living in Confederate Virginia
• Death Threats and Desegregation: L. Lee Bean, Junior's Role in the Vote to Integrate Arlington, Virginia Public Schools
• How to Grow A Mountain Man
• Growing Another Mountain Man
• Holly-what?​​
• A Hard History: Confederate Virginia's Only Union Troop
• The Hay School of Fashion: a Pinterest Tribute to My Grandmother, Virginia Hay

LIFE

• The Mouse is Dry! and Other Little Tales from the Country
• Peculiar Politics in Small Town Virginia
• The Broken Brain
• A Perfect Stranger Walks Across America​​
• A Window into Focal Seizures

THEATRE

• Starting a Directing Career at Age 5
• From Documentaries to Theatre Companies
• Art vs Control
• How to Catch a Christmas Spirit
• If "All the World's a Stage", Theatre is the Best of All Worlds
• They Loved Us In Altoona
  
• Great Theatre Asks Important Questions and Tries to Answer Them
• Bringing Out an Actor's Best
• Making Romance from Broadway to Lincoln Center
• Casting About: How to Enjoy an Audition
• Professional Audition Technique
• Advice to Actors from Mark Twain
• Ten Things to Know Before Taking A Shakespeare Acting Class Taught by a Very Important Instructor Who Has Worked with the Globe Theatre ForLordsSake
• Run Rabbit Run: 10 Years of Successful Pretending