MEREDITH BEAN McMATH is a published author, prize-winning playwright and award-winning historian.  A Masters candidate in Arts Management at Shenandoah University, she is the co-founder of Run, Rabbit, Run Productions, Inc., Managing Editor of LoudounPerformingArts.com, and the former Founding Artistic Director of Aurora Studio Theatre, Inc. Her creative work includes video documentaries, contemporary and historical plays, historic fiction novels and articles.  McMath's living history productions have been commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, the National Trust's Oatlands Plantation, The Newseum (Rosslyn), and many other museums, history organizations, libraries and schools. Her Run, Rabbit, Run history videos have appeared on The History Channel and in Virginia classrooms.

WRITER & MARKETING DIRECTOR
McMath is the Managing Editor of LoudounPerformingArts.com, writes the StoryRoot Blog, and her freelance articles have appeared in magazines and newspapers such as The Piedmont Virginian, élan Magazine and The Washington Post Loudoun Extra. She has acted as publicist or marketing director for a variety of organizations, including Cranial Tap, Inc., community theatre companies, a movie house, radio shows, a restaurant and several non-profit organizations.  Servant Publications published her three historic fiction novels as the "Celebrating the American Woman" series.

ARTS MANAGEMENT

As editor of LoudounPerformingArts.com, McMath provides a connecting point for patrons, producers and performers, and an information resource for non-profit managers and directors.  While Program Director of Round Hill Arts Center from 2008 to 2009, McMath created the Center's roster of art and music programs, directed all marketing and promotion, managed events, showcases and workshops, wrote grants and managed the Center's gallery and gift shop.  As Artistic Director and Producer of Aurora Studio Theatre, Inc. (2004-2008) McMath created the schedule of shows, classes and events, managed each production, and occasionally directed and taught.  She currently serves as Vice President of The Loudoun Lyric Opera Company .

PLAYWRIGHT

McMath's 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.  McMath wrote a stage adaptation of Libbie Harrover's The Several Secrets of Will Monroe, commissioned by Ken Elston and the Gray Ghost Theatre Company.  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 from Texas to The Philippines.    Her play Case 22 will appear at the July 8-25, 2010 Capital Fringe Festival, and her light musical Romance from Broadway to Lincoln Center, will be produced August 20-22, 2010 by Loudoun Lyric Opera at Franklin Park Performing and Visual Arts Center, Purcellville, Virginia.  December 3-19, Run Rabbit Run Theatre will present Meredith Bean McMath and Diane El-Shafey's Once Upon A CHRISTMAS CAROL, a musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale at The Old Stone School Theatre in Hillsboro, VA.

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.  She is currently in production on her independent film, Waterford's War, produced in conjunction with Waterford Productions, LLC.

HONORS & ASSOCIATIONS

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. Her play, "Sticks and Stones" took first prize in the 2003 Source Theatre play competition.  She serves on the Boards of both The Hillsboro Community Association and The Loudoun Lyric Opera and is a member of the Hillsboro Planning Commission.

EDUCATION

Currently pursuing a Master of Science in Arts Management at Shenandoah University, McMath is a graduate of The College of William and Mary (B.A. History; member Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society). In May 09, she studied Eco-tourism in Sydney and Cairns, Australia  through Shenandoah University's Global Experiential Learning  program.

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