Meredith Bean McMath Complete Resume
ARTICLES "Putting the Lyric in Loudoun Lyric Opera," Valley Homes and Style, spring 2010 Blue Ridge Leader (BRLeader.com), fall 2009
"More than meets the eye," TravelMole.com, June 2009 "Family Trees," élan Magazine, February 2008 "Out of the Ordinary," The Piedmont Virginian, winter 2008 "Willing to Jump," élan Magazine, April 2007 "Rose-Colored Glasses," élan Magazine, April 2006 "Earth and Iron: The Master Singers of Virginia," Loudoun Arts Advance, spring issue, 2006 "For the Jurascheks, Theatre is a Family Affair," The Blue Ridge Leader, 10/5/05 "What You Waiting For? Make a Movie!" Reel Life with Jane e-zine, September 2005 "Of Life and Reinvention," élan Magazine, March 2005 "Live! It's the Tally Ho Radio Show!," Blue Ridge Leader, 12/6/02 "Couple Honored as Foster Parents," Washington Post, Loudoun Extra, 12/30/01 "Town Ignited by Prospect of Quiet Fourth," Washington Post, Loudoun Extra, 10/28/01 "For Historic School, a New Life," Washington Post, Loudoun Extra, 9/27/01 "Stretching to a New Level: For Young Dancer, Years of Hard Work Start to Pay Off," "A New Performing Arts Center," Middleburg Life, July 2001 "He's Been Framed," The Blue Ridge Leader, March 17, 2000 "When Valued Customers are Valued Friends," Middleburg Life, August 1999 "Come Meet the Neighbors at PORCHES," Middleburg Life, March 1999 "... And a Straight Jacket for the Editor," Citizen's Companion, Oct/Nov issue, 1997 "Bringing Back an Age of Innocence: Loudoun's Radio Revival," Loudoun Times-Mirror, 10/15/97 "All for the Union!" Middleburg Life, March 1997 "Civil War Music for Reenactors," Civil War Lady Magazine, No. 15, fall 1995 "The Spirit of a House," Loudoun Times-Mirror, October 26, 1994 "The Restorer's Apprentice," Loudoun Times-Mirror, 1988
ARTS MANAGEMENT 1998 to present - Artistic Director, Run, Rabbit, Run Productions, Inc. Writes and produces living history plays and other productions whose past clients include the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, the National Park Museum at Ford’s Theatre, National Fish & Wildlife Training Center, The Newseum at Rosslyn,The National Trust’s Oatlands Plantation, and The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley. 2008-2009 - Program Director of Round Hill Arts Center. Oversaw and evaluated all programs and events, marketing and promotions, co-managed website, created and managed class schedules, oversaw Exhibits, and managed the Gallery and Gift Shop, its staff and volunteers. 2004-2008 - Founding Artistic Director of Aurora Studio Theatre, Inc., a non-profit theatre company. Produced all productions, classes, workshops and events, produced majority of marketing and promotion effort including the creation and maintenance of an extensive website, wrote grants, managed budgets and staff of volunteers for a schedule which included two to three main stage productions and several classes a year.
AWARDS / HONORS 2010 - Honored as one of six Loudoun County women featured in the "Women with Vision" Exhibit at Franklin Park Performing Arts Center May 28 - June 13 Marquis 2006-2007 Who's Who of American Women 2005 - Volunteer of the Year, Hillsboro Community Association 2003 - August - First Prize, Ten-Minute Play Competition, Source Theatre, Washington, D.C. for Sticks & Stones 2002 - League of Women Voters of Loudoun County: awarded to those who have made a significant contribution to advancing the awareness of women's history 2000 - Nominated for a Virginia's Governor's Arts Award 1998 - Honored by the Hillsboro Community Association for inspiring young people to the study of American history 1996 - A recipient of The Loudoun History Award, presented by the Advisory Commission of The Thomas Balch Library of Leesburg, Virginia to those "who have made a significant contribution to Loudoun History"
BOOKS
The "Celebrating the American Woman" historic fiction series, Servant Publications, Ann Arbor (out of print):
BOOK ON TAPE: Pella's Angel Audio Version (2002, ISBN 0-9724158-1-5)
COLUMNIST / EDITOR Managing Editor, LoudounPerformingArts.com "The Good Neighbor" Columnist, Loudoun ART Magazine (1998-2001, semi-monthly)
DIRECTOR / WRITER FILMS & DOCUMENTARIES Currently in post-production: screenwriter/director/co-editor of Waterford's War - full-length film produced by The Lincoln Preservation Foundation, Cinematography by Peter Buck. 2007 - Walking for Water ten minute promotional video for the non-profit Wisdom Springs, Inc. Screenplay by Meredith Bean McMath. Cinematography and Editing by Nate Juraschek. 2004 - Scriptwriter, "George Christopher Schultz: Son, Friend, Sailor" - Waterford Productions, Inc., LLC. 1998 to present - Co-Founder, co-Producer: RUN, RABBIT, RUN PRODUCTIONS, INC., a history video production company devoted to bringing history to life. RRR has created the following videos for Virginia cable stations, schools and libraries, creating:
1994 - "Between Hawk & Buzzard: Loudoun County and the Civil War" (see living history productions below) - Videotaped by Cablevision of Loudoun and shown on cable channels in Fairfax and Loudoun County, Virginia and Frederick, Maryland.
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER 2010, July - Writer/Director Case 22 at the 2010 Capital Fringe Festival. 2009, October - co-writer/co-producer, "Haunted Schoolhouse," at Hillsboro, Virginia's Old Stone School community center to raise funds for The Hillsboro Community Association and the Drama Club of Loudoun Valley High School. 2009, June 6 - "Shakespeare in Song and Sonnet" produced through Run, Rabbit, Run Productions, Inc. with The Loudoun Lyric Opera. Round Hill Arts Center, Round Hill, Virginia. 2004 - 2008 - Producer of all Aurora Studio Theatre, Inc. theatre performances, library programs and classes. 2006, 2003 & 1997, December - An 1850s Christmas - Producer, living history presentation of song, dance, and parlor games in conjunction with Hillsboro's Christmas Tour of Homes, Hillsboro, Virginia. 2006, November - Director, Arms and the Highlander, an adaptation written by McMath of George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man, produced by Aurora Studio Theatre, Inc. at Hillsboro's Old Stone School Theatre, Hillsboro, VA. 2006, April - May - Director, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, produced by Aurora Studio Theatre, Inc. at Hillsboro's Old Stone School Theatre, Hillsboro, VA and Loudoun Country Day School, Leesburg, Virginia. 2004, November - Wrote and directed original adaptation of Alcott's LITTLE WOMEN, produced by Aurora Studio Theatre, Inc. at Hillsboro's Old Stone School Theatre, Hillsboro, VA. 2004, spring - Youth Theatre Co-director, 8th Grade Class production A Midsummer Night's Dream, Loudoun Country Day School, Leesburg, VA. 2003, October - Director, ALL FOR THE UNION in Confederate Virginia! Civil War drama produced as a fundraiser for The Lincoln Preservation Foundation, Lincoln, VA. 2003, June - Director, "The Hangar Dance USO Show," Leesburg Airport, Leesburg, VA - to benefit the Commemorative Air Force, National Capitol Squadron. 2003, spring - Youth Theatre Director, 7th Grade Class production Romeo & Juliet, Loudoun Country Day School. 2002, December to 2003, May - Producer/Director, "The Tally Ho Radio Show," a 1940s-style live radio show presented at The Tally Ho Theatre, Leesburg, Virginia, in conjunction with WAGE Radio; shows featured a comedian show host, a cappella music by "The Swingin' Smithley Sisters," a Vox Pox-style interview with a WW II soldier "about to ship out," and full cast, live radio theatre presentations ofA Christmas Carol, Arsenic & Old Lace and the1936 radio comedy Nickelodeon. 2002, May - An Afternoon with the Caldwells, 1855 - The Abolitionist Fundraiser; Wrote, produced and directed the re-creation of an Abolitionist Fundraiser for the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's "May Fair" celebration of the "Within These Walls" Exhibit. 2001, August - Co-producer, Rachel Carson: A Writer's Odyssey, a narrated dramatic readings of Carson's works. Presented at The Rachel Carson Conference, National Fish and Wildlife Training Center, Shepherdstown, WV. 2001, June - Waterford's War - Wrote, produced and directed the narrated living history of Civil War Quaker Journalists for The Newseum, Rosslyn, Virginia. Commissioned by The Newseum in conjunction with their "War Stories" exhibit. 2000-2001 - By Lamplight & Campfire: Music of the Civil War - Wrote, produced and directed the narrated history of Civil War music. Songs sung by vocalists in period dress. (Performed at Hillsboro Community Association's 2000 Annual Meeting, Oatlands Plantation "2001 Winter Lecture Series" and Hill Playhouse, Middleburg, Virginia in May of 2001). 1997 - Having a Ball: Ballroom Costume, Etiquette and Dance in the Midst of the Rebellion, wrote, produced and directed for the final presentation of McMath'sElizabeth Carter Lecture Series at The National Trust's Oatlands Plantation, Leesburg, Virginia. ("Having a Ball" became the basis of a documentary video which aired several times on the History Channel. The presentation was most recently presented at The National Conference of the Romance Writers of America, Washington, D.C., 2002). 1994 - Between Hawk & Buzzard: Loudoun County and the Civil War - Wrote, produced and directed this living history program which presented dramatic readings of original Civil War letters and diaries within a narrated overview of Loudoun County Civil War History for The Loudoun Museum's 25th Anniversary Program (Presented January 21-22, 1994 in Leesburg, VA. Revised version presented at Loudoun Country Day School, May 2003). 1997 to 1999 - Associate Producer for Studio Two, a live radio theatre program featured on WAGE Radio (AM 1200), Leesburg, Virginia. 1996-1997 - Associate Producer for Brunswick, Maryland's WTRI Radio's "Sunday Afternoon Armchair Theatre". 1995 - The Union Ball - Co-writer (with Brian Boucher) and Producer for The Loudoun Museum, Leesburg, VA; presented for the public May 13 at St. James Episcopal Church, Leesburg, VA to benefit The Loudoun Museum. Directed by Claudine Gilarski, Cathy Bieberick and Meredith Bean McMath. 1979 - A Tale of a Tavern - Wrote, produced and directed for The Dranesville Tavern Museum, Fairfax County Park Authority; produced August 4 at The Dranesville Tavern Museum, Dranesville, VA.
EDUCATION 2008 to present - Graduate student at Shenandoah University pursuing an MS in Arts Management
FURTHER EDUCATION Jan-May 2010 - Internship with the Office of Marketing and Development, Weinberg Center for the Arts, Frederick, Maryland May 2009 - Shenandoah University Global Learning Experience Program on Eco-Tourism and Arts Management, Cairns and Sydney, Australia 2005 - Michael Kinghorn's Playwrights' Workshop, The Artists' Center, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. 2003 - Martin Blank's "Playwriting to Production," The Writers' Center, Bethesda, MD 1998 - Madeleine L'Engle Writers' Retreat, Kanuga Conference Center, Hendersonville, NC 1988 - The Art of Gold Leaf - William Adair Gold Leaf Studios, Washington, D.C. 1979 - Internship, Gadsby Tavern Museum, Alexandria, Virginia 1978 - Christ's College, Cambridge University - College of William & Mary Summer Abroad Program
LECTURER / TEACHER July 2009 - Produced and taught storyboarding and film during the Round Hill Arts Center Claymation Film Camp for age 9-13, Round Hill, Virginia. April - May 2008, Saturdays - Producing and co-teaching "Royals and Rustics: A High School Student's Guide to Shakespeare" at four Loudoun County, Virginia public libraries. Featuring presentations from professional actor Bolton Marsh and scene studies by actors Carolyn Christensen and Ben Huntington, the program is presented by Aurora Studio Theatre with support from Loudoun County Public Libraries and The Virginia Commission for the Arts. June 2006 - June 2007 - Drama Coach for Footprints School of Performing Arts through Rossi Entertainment. 2006 - Jan./Feb. - Crash Course for Young Playwrights, an Aurora Studio Theatre seminar conducted in conjunction with Franklin Park Performing an Visual Arts Center, Round Hill, Virginia. 2003-2004 - Basic Drama/Drama Club, Loudoun Country Day School, Leesburg, Virginia. 2003 - Adjunct Professor, Patrick Henry College - Writing Practicums, Purcellville, VA. 2003 - Taught/Directed 7th Grade class production of Romeo & Juliet, Loudoun Country Day School, Leesburg, VA. 1998 - Elderhostel Summer Session, "Virginia's Civil War Women," Foxcroft, Middleburg, VA. 1997 - The Elizabeth Carter Lecture Series, Oatlands Plantation, Leesburg, VA. 1980-81 - Teacher, George Mason Junior/Senior High School, Falls Church, VA.
2010, March - Producer "Life in a Border County: The Civil War Women of Loudoun County" Living History presentation with 7 actors, narrated by McMath; Women's History Month Celebration, Purcellville Library. 2008, May - Four actors portraying characters brought to life from oil paintings for "Galleries at Night: Lights, Camera, Art!," The Museum of the Shendandoah Valley, Winchester, Virginia. 2006, January & 2005, July - Vignette's from Waterford's War, Lincoln Elementary School, Lincoln, Virginia. 2005, July - Waterford's War Vignette, The Loudoun Museum Civil War Camp, Aldie Mill, Aldie, Virginia (a Civil War-era Quaker family telling the story of life in Waterford, Virginia during the Civil War is interrupted by a visit from Confederate renegade John Mobberly). 2002, May - An Afternoon with the Caldwells, 1855 - The Abolitionist Fundraiser; Wrote, produced and directed the re-creation of an Abolitionist Fundraiser for the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's "May Fair" celebration of the "Within These Walls" Exhibit. 2001, June - Waterford's War - Wrote, produced and directed the narrated living history of Civil War Quaker Journalists for The Newseum, Arlington, Virginia. Commissioned by The Newseum in conjunction with their "War Stories" exhibit. 2000-2001 - By Lamplight & Campfire: Music of the Civil War - Wrote, produced and directed the narrated history of Civil War music. Songs sung by vocalists in period dress. (Performed at Hillsboro Community Association's 2000 Annual Meeting, Oatlands Plantation "2001 Winter Lecture Series," Hill Playhouse, Middleburg, Virginia in May of 2001 and for a number of historical organizations and Civil War Roundtables). 1997 - Having a Ball: Ballroom Costume, Etiquette and Dance in the Midst of the Rebellion, wrote, produced and directed for the final presentation of McMath's Elizabeth Carter Lecture Series at The National Trust's Oatlands Plantation, Leesburg, Virginia. ("Having a Ball" became the basis of a documentary video which aired several times on the History Channel. The presentation was most recently presented at The National Conference of the Romance Writers of America, Washington, D.C., 2002). 1994 - Between Hawk & Buzzard: Loudoun County and the Civil War - Wrote, produced and directed this living history program which presented dramatic readings of original Civil War letters and diaries within a narrated overview of Loudoun County Civil War History for The Loudoun Museum's 25th Anniversary Program (Presented January 21-22, 1994 in Leesburg, VA. Revised version presented at Loudoun Country Day School, May 2003). 1982 - "A History of Civil War Music" - solo performance presented at Ford's Theatre in conjunction with a Lincoln's Birthday Celebration for local schools, National Park Service. 1979 - A Tale of a Tavern - Wrote, produced and directed for The Dranesville Tavern Museum, Fairfax County Park Authority; produced August 4 at The Dranesville Tavern Museum, Dranesville, VA.
MARKETING / PUBLICIST 2009 to present - Marketing Assistance & Website Management, Loudoun Lyric Opera 1998 to present - Director of Marketing, Run, Rabbit, Run Productions, Inc. 2009, July-Sept. - Marketing Director, Cranial Tap, Inc. 2008 - 2009 - Director of Marketing while Program Director, Round Hill Arts Center, Round Hill, VA 2004 - 2008 - Director of Marketing while Artistic Director, Aurora Studio Theatre, Inc., Purcellville, Virginia 2008, April - Publicist, "Hard Stories to Tell," Winchester Little Theatre to benefit The Laurel Center, Winchester, Virginia
Fall 2005 - Pubilcist, PORCHES: An American Musical for Hill Playhouse, Middleburg, Virginia Fall 2003 - Publicist, All for the Union on behalf of The Lincoln Preservation Foundation Spring 2003 - Publicist, The Tally Ho Theatre (Special Events) 2002-2003 Season - Publicist, The Tally Ho Radio Show 2001-2002 - Director of Marketing, The Not Just Shakespeare Theatre Company 2001-2002 - Publicist, The Hillsboro Concert Series, Hillsboro Community Association 1998-99 - Publicist, Hill Playhouse, Middleburg, Virginia 1997-98 - Publicist, The Growing Stage, Purcellville, Virginia
2010, August - Romance from Broadway to Lincoln Center, a light opera written on behalf ofThe Loudoun Lyric Opera, produced by LLO August 21-22, Franklin Park Performing Arts Center, Purcellville, VA. 2010, July - Case 22 produced by Run Rabbit Run Theatre at the 2010 Capital Fringe Festival, Washington, D.C. 2007 - The Several Secrets of Will Monroe, an original adaptation of Libbie Harrover Johnson's The Several Secrets of Will Monroe commissioned by The Gray Ghost Theatre Company, Manassas, Virginia. Received a staged reading August 17, 2007, directed by Rick Davis, Artistic Director of Theatre of the First Amendment, George Mason University. 2007, February - Co-writer Snow White and the Seven Grumpy Old Men with Bob Rosenberg. Music by Diane El-Shafey. Produced by Carver Radio Theatre at The Round Hill Center, Virginia. 2006, November - Arms and the Highlander, an original adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man, produced by Aurora Studio Theatre, Inc. at Hillsboro's Old Stone School Theatre, Hillsboro, VA. 2004, November - Alcott's LITTLE WOMEN, an original adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, produced by Aurora Studio Theatre, Inc. at Hillsboro's Old Stone School Theatre, Hillsboro, VA. 2004, January - The Drinking Gourd: Songs and Stories from the Underground Railroad, produced at Lincoln Elementary School and Hillsboro Elementary School in February as a celebration of Black History Month. Directed by Music Teacher Amy McCafferty. 2003, October - ALL FOR THE UNION in Confederate Virginia! Civil War drama produced as a fundraiser for The Lincoln Preservation Foundation, Lincoln, VA. 2003, August - Sticks & Stones, Source Theatre 10-Minute Play Competition, WDC. Directed by Charles Upton (First Prize Winner). 2001, February - Bill the Bard: An Evening of Shakespeare - Selections of the best of The Bard of Avonlea, with narration written by Meredith Bean McMath. Directed by Tim Jon. 2000 - The Waterford News: Message from the Underground - An historic drama based on true stories from Civil War Loudoun County, Virginia. Directed by Sara Gomez. Performed to benefit The Waterford Foundation's Capital Campaign. 1999 - PORCHES: An American Musical, Musical Drama based on the World War II-era civilian history of Altoona, PA: book by Meredith Bean McMath, original story and music by Tom Sweitzer. Directed by Tom Sweitzer. April production: Hill Playhouse, Middleburg, Virginia. October production: The Mishler Regional Theatre in Altoona, Pennsylvania and again at Middleburg, Virginia. 1997 - The Waterford Girls - Produced by The Growing Stage Theatre Company, Inc. of Loudoun County. Directed by Dolly Stevens.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS / BOARD SERVICE
SHORT STORIES / ESSAYS 2002 - "Zilpha Davis," Essay Three of Essence of a People: 1995 - "A Yankee in the Well," The Loudoun Pamphlet; A Monthly Magazine of Arts and People. No. 17, October.
SPEAKER Provide talks and presentations on the subject of history, writing and play writing to schools, museums and educational organizations, including public and private schools, local and national museums, writing associations, seminars and book clubs, women's groups, civic groups, history groups, and national organizations such as Girl Scouts of America.
TECHNICAL SKILLS Web design (Contribute), Blogging (WordPress, Marketing and Presentation (Pages, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Power Point, Keynote), Networking (Constant Contact, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, YouTube), Accounting/Retail (QuickBooks), Photography/Film (digital photography, Kodak zi6 with instant YouTube content, XL1 Canon Digital Video Camera, iPhoto, iMovie), Desktop Publishing (Pages, Microsoft Word). Other skills: successful grant writer, prize-winning playwright, researcher.
WEBMASTER / CONTENT PROVIDER LoudounLyricOpera.com (content provider) Storyroot.com (webmaster) Waterford's War (webmaster) Cranial Tap, Inc. (former content provider)
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE 2010, spring - Marketing and Development Internship, Weinberg Center for the Arts, Frederick, Maryland 1988-1989 - Apprentice, Stonehedge Restoration , Hillsboro, Virginia 1986-87 - Independent Sign Maker 1984-86 - Data Processor, Airline Tariff Publishing Company, Dulles, Virginia 1983-84 - Adminstrative Aide / Newsletter Layout, Institute on Religion and Democracy, Washington, D.C. 1981-83 - Intern Coordinator and Assistant to the Director, Office of Public & Academic Programs, 1980-81 - Teacher, George Mason Junior/Senior High School, Falls Church, VA 1979-80 - Intern, Gadsby's Tavern Museum 1979 - Interpreter and Public Program Coordinator, Dranesville Tavern Museum, Fairfax County Park Authority
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