Author
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Book Writer of Musicals & Operas
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Playwright
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Theatre Manager, Producer & Director
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Program & Documentary Writer & Producer
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Theatre Reviews & Awards
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Meredith McMath is an author, award-winning historian and playwright, a critically acclaimed theatre director and the Managing Director of Run Rabbit Run Productions, Inc. Her works include historic fiction novels, history books and essays, stage dramas and comedies, opera librettos and history documentaries. She holds a BA in History from The College of William and Mary, a Masters in Arts Administration from Shenandoah Conservatory and over 35 years of arts management experience. |
Meredith Bean McMath
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McMath history books, novels, plays, musicals, and documentaries
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AUTHOR
McMath's historic fiction novels are known for strong female characters, creative plots and humor and fascinating historic detail. Non-fiction works include history books and articles, such as her essay on freed slave Zilpha Davis (See Essence of a People II) which won a Loudoun County Black History Award. She also co-wrote The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Legacy of Lincoln. Her StoryRoot Blog covers everything from writing to romance, and her freelance articles have appeared in The Washington Post Loudoun Extra, Loudoun Magazine, The Piedmont Virginian, Loudoun Times-Mirror, Middleburg Life, Blue Ridge Leader, Loudoun Art Magazine and Leesburg Lifestyle Magazine. |
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PLAYWRIGHT and LIBRETTIST
McMath has won acclaim for several of her works, including NORTON: A Civil War Opera (Music by Composer David E. Chåvez; concept and libretto by McMath), Case 22 (2010 Capital Fringe Festival) and All for the Union (2019 Capital Fringe Festival). Her 10-minute play Sticks and Stones took First Prize in the professional Source Theatre Competition and another, Blind Date, was a finalist in The Oxford 10-Minute Play Competition. She's also written the book adaptations for the critically acclaimed musical Once Upon A Christmas Carol and A Musical Little Women (Both with music by Diane El-Shafey and accompaniment by Carma Jones), and stage play adaptations of the comedies Mark Twain's Diaries of Adam and Eve and Arms and the Highlander. |
ARMS AND THE HIGHLANDER, McMath's adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's ARMS AND THE MAN
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DOCUMENTARY and HISTORY PROGRAM PRODUCER
As a writer, director and co-producer of history documentaries and public programs, McMath's works have been commissioned by museums and preservation organizations which include The National Museum of American History, the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, The Waterford Foundation, the Lincoln Preservation Foundation and the Loudoun Arts Council. In addition, she's been Marketing Director for several arts organizations, nonprofits and theatre companies - The Loudoun Lyric Opera Company, The Round Hill Arts Center, The Loudoun Museum and Arts for All Loudoun - and has served on the Board of Directors of multiple museums, nonprofit arts organizations and theatre companies. |
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"Meredith Bean McMath flourishes at a time when only one in five U.S. plays have a female playwright."
- Diane Helentjaris, Survival Secrets of a Southern Woman Playwright
"My evocative conversation with Meredith reminded me of the adage given to actors using the Acting Stanislavski method. It states that, while performing, they should listen and respond, not just memorize their lines and speak from rote. Meredith lives Method Acting in a real-life expressive discourse..."
- Nancy Wyatt of My Persuasive Presentations on Run Rabbit Run Theatre
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On History...
Written by Maxine Bean (1924-2014) |
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EDUCATION
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HONORS & AWARDS HISTORIAN
PLAYWRIGHT & THEATRE DIRECTOR
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