MEREDITH BEAN McMATH is the Program Director of the Round Hill Arts Center, a Masters candidate in Arts Management at Shenandoah University, published author, prize-winning playwright and award-winning historian. She is also a co-founder of Run, Rabbit, Run Productions, Inc. and the former Founding Artistic Director of Aurora Studio Theatre, Inc.  She holds extensive experience in production management, marketing and press. Creative work includes video documentaries, contemporary and historical plays, historic fiction novels and articles.  McMath's living history plays have been commissioned by organizations which include the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, The Newseum, and the National Trust's Oatlands Plantation, and Run, Rabbit, Run history videos have appeared on The History Channel and in Virginia classrooms.

ARTS MANAGEMENT

As Program Director of Round Hill Arts Center, McMath creates the Center's roster of art and music programs, directs marketing and promotion, manages events, showcases and workshops, writes grants and manages the Center's gallery and gift shop.  While the Founding Artistic Director of Aurora Studio Theatre, Inc., McMath created the yearly schedule of shows, classes and events, produced every stage production, and occasionally directed and taught, such as the 2008 "Royals and Rustics: A High School Student's Guide to Shakespeare" with professional actor Bolton Marsh for Loudoun County Public Libraries with a grant from The Virginia Commission for the Arts).  

WRITER
Creator of "The Good Neighbor" column for the former Loudoun Art Magazine, McMath has also freelanced for a variety of magazines and newspapers including The Piedmont Virginian, Elan Magazine and The Washington Post Loudoun Extra, has acted as publicist for a variety of organizations, including local theatre companies, a movie house, community theatre organizations and a restaurant, and is a successful grant writer.  In 1995, Servant Publications began publishing her three historic fiction novels as the "Celebrating the American Woman" series.  Her most recent work, Pella's Angel, published by Goose Creek Productions is  one of Loudoun County Library's  2008 picks for the "Book in a Bag" book club discussion kits.

PLAYWRIGHT

McMath's most recent work, a stage adaptation of Libbie Harrovers's book, The Several Secrets of Will Monroe, commissioned by Gray Ghost Theatre Company, received a dramatic reading in August of 2007 directed by Rick Davis, Artistic Director of Theatre of the First Amendment, GMU and the play is slated to be the first professional production at the new performing art center at the Manassas campus of George Mason University.  In 2003, McMath's Civil War play ALL FOR THE UNION in Confederate Virginia! raised $10,000 toward the restoration of historic Grace Church in Lincoln, Virgina, and in that same year Loudoun County Public Schools commissioned McMath to write a play celebrating Black History Month. Since then The Drinking Gourd: Songs and Stories of the Underground Railroad has been produced as far west as Texas and as far east as The Philippines.  Her modern plays have been produced in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C. and North Carolina, and her ten-minute play, Sticks & Stones, took first prize in Washington D.C.'s Source Theatre 2003 Ten-Minute Play Competition.

RUN, RABBIT, RUN PRODUCTIONS, Inc.

In 1998, McMath and award-winning historian Joni Lynn Crane founded Run, Rabbit, Run Productions to bring story to life through a variety of media. McMath's productions, which range in scope from a 1943 live radio show to an 1855 abolitionist fundraiser, have led to commissions from institutions such as The Newseum and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.  Her Civil War Music program has has been produced for over twenty years in a variety of settings, including a Lincoln's Birthday Celebration at Ford's Theatre.  McMath wrote and produced an eight-minute promotional video "Walking for Water" on behalf of Wisdom Springs, Inc.

HONORS & EDUCATION

In addition to The Loudoun History Award, she's received a number of honors including a League of Women Voters of Loudoun County award for "Significant Contribution to Advancing the Awareness of Women's History" and is listed in the 2006-2007 Marquis Who's Who of American Women. She's a member of the Washington, D.C. chapter of Women in Film and Video, an Associate Member of The Dramatists Guild of America and serves on the Board of Directors of The Hillsboro Community Association.

A graduate of The College of William and Mary (B.A. History; member Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society), she is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Arts Management at Shenandoah University.

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