MEREDITH BEAN McMATH

MS, Arts Administration

McMath is the Director of Run, Rabbit, Run Productions, Inc. and Run Rabbit Run Theatre. A published author, prize-winning playwright and award-winning historian, her works include video documentaries, contemporary and historical plays, historic fiction novels, and freelance articles.  Her living history productions have been commissioned by history organizations, libraries, schools and civic organizations and museums such as the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, the National Trust's Oatlands Plantation, The Newseum and The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley. Run, Rabbit, Run history videos have appeared on The History Channel and in Virginia classrooms. She holds a BA in History from The College of William and Mary and a Master of Science in Arts Management from Shenandoah University.

ARTS MANAGEMENT

McMath holds over 30 years of arts programming and production management experience. She's a formerProgram Director for The Round Hill Arts Center and founding Artistic Director of the former nonprofit Aurora Studio Theatre, and has served on the boards of the The Loudoun Museum, the Loudoun Arts Council, Not Just Shakespeare, Inc. and The Growing Stage, as well as managed the former website resource LoudounPerformingArts.com. She has served on the Region IVb Grants Panel for the Virginia Commission for the Arts and acted as an arts management onsultant to several area arts organizations. Current board service includes the Hillsboro Community Association, the Hillsboro Planning Commission, and Loudoun Lyric Opera. Expertise includes arts education and public programming, programming development and evaluation, public events, cost-benefit analyses, marketing and social networking, grant writing, website ehancement and graphic arts. She holds an MS in Arts Management from Shenandoah University.

PLAYWRIGHT

McMath's plays range from modern dramas to historical plays and adaptations. Sticks & Stones took first prize in Washington D.C.'s Source Theatre 2003 Ten-Minute Play Competition and Case 22 appeared at the 2010 Capital Fringe Festival where it was designated a "Must See" by DC Theatre Scene. She's written living history programs and plays for museums, history organzations, libraries, schools and theatre groups. Highlights from these commissioned works include Romance from Broadway to Lincoln Center - a light musical written and produced in 2010 for Loudoun Lyric Opera at Franklin Park Arts Center, Purcellville, Virginia; An Afternoon with the Caldwells: The Abolitionist Fundraiser - a living history performance written and produced for the National Museum of American History; and The Drinking Gourd: Songs and Stories of the Underground Railroad - a musical written for Loudoun Public Schools to be performed by Elementary School Students in honor of Black History Month.  McMath's original Civil War play ALL FOR THE UNION in Confederate Virginia! raised $10,000 toward the restoration of historic Grace Church in Lincoln, Virgina in 2003 and $15,000 toward the Waterford Capital Campaign in 2000.

RUN, RABBIT, RUN PRODUCTIONS, inc.

McMath co-founded Run, Rabbit, Run Production, Inc. with Joni Lynn Crane in 1998 in order to bring history and story to life through a variety of media.  McMath's Living History programs have ranged from a 1943-style live radio show to an 1855 abolitionist fundraiser; her video work promotional spots and historical documentaries; and her educational programs cover topics such as VIrginia and Loudoun Civil War History, American Social History, fiction writing, theatre, Shakespeare, play writing and journalism. Former clients include The Newseum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, The National Trust's Oatlands Plantation and the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley.  McMath's Civil War Music program has been produced for over 20 years in a variety of venues, including a National Park Service Lincoln's Birthday Celebration at Ford's Theatre, and she wrote and produced the eight-minute promotional video "Walking for Water" on behalf of the nonprofit Wisdom Springs, Inc.

HONORS & ASSOCIATIONS

In 2010, McMath was one of four women chosen for the first annual Franklin Park Arts Center Women With Vision Exhibit, presented inconjunction with Virginia's 2010 "Minds Wide Open" celebration of women in the arts.

Women with Vision video on McMath

presented as part of Franklin Park Arts Center's

2010 Women with Vision Exhibit

McMath's play, Sticks and Stones, took first prize in the 2003 Source Theatre play competition.  Upon receiving her graduate degree in Arts Managment in 2011, McMath was honored with the Shenandoah Conservatory Arts Administration  Award for outstanding graduate work.   She is the recipient of The Loudoun History Award and has been honored by both the League of Women Voters of Loudoun County and the Hillsboro Community Association for inspiring the study of women's history. 

EDUCATION

• Shenandoah University (2011) GPA: 4.0+
  • Master of Science, Arts Management.  Relevant areas of study: Contemporary Trends in Arts Management, Marketing, Financial Management of the Nonprofit Enterprise, Production Management Accounting; Arts Management Policy and Practice.
  • Thesis: "The Relationship between Successes and Failures of the Federal Theatre Project and its Management by Director Hallie Flanagan."
  • Award: Recipient of the 2011 Arts Administration Graduate Student Award for superlative graduate student work
  • Marketing and Developement Internship: Weinberg Center for the Arts, Frederick, MD (2010)
  • Eco-Tourism and Arts Marketing Study, Australia, Global Experiential Learning Program, Shenandoah University (2009)
• The College of William and Mary (1979)
  • BA, History
  • Secondary Teaching Certificate, Social Studies
  • Honors: Member, Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society
• Cambridge University Christ's College Study Program, Cambridge, England (summer 1978)

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