A graduate of The College of William and Mary, McMath is a Loudoun County, Virginia writer, published author, award-winning historian and prize winning playwright. Her works include modern and historical plays, historic fiction novels, living history productions, and documentaries. She's currently editing the independent film of her screenplay Waterford's War with Cinematographer Peter Buck of Waterford Productions. Waterford's War is being produced by the non-profit Lincoln Preservation Foundation to benefit the restoration of Lincoln, Virginia's historic Grace Church. The film is slated to premiere in the spring of 2008.   Her recent adaptation of Libbie Harrover Johnson's Civil War tale The Several Secrets of Will Monroe will receive a staged reading Saturday, August 18, 2007 at the Mary Louise Jackson Amphitheatre, Manassas, VA. Commissioned by The Gray Ghost Theatre Company, it tells the tale of young Will Monroe, who lived through both battles of Manasses, faced the challenges of war and conscience, and grew from youth to man.

McMath (at left) on the set of her independent
film WATERFORD'S WAR, Clermont Estate, summer
2005.  Actors (L to R) Lindsay Long, Abigail Seymour,
Donna Dodderidge, Morgan El-Shafey and Michelle
Hixon. (Asst. Director Nancy Griffith not visible).

McMath is the Founding Artistic Director of Aurora Studio Theatre, Inc., which was created in 2004 to provide quality entertainment, classes and other drama programs to Loudoun County residents. McMath wrote and directed Aurora's 2004 premiere performance of Alcott's LITTLE WOMEN, directed the spring 2006 production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella with Musical Director Diane El-Shafey, and wrote and directed the November 2006 production of Arms and the Highlander, McMath's Colonial American adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

In November of 2003, McMath directed her Civil War play ALL FOR THE UNION in Confederate Virginia! for The Lincoln Preservation Foundation, which raisen $10,000 toward the restoration of historic Grace Church. In December 2002 Loudoun County Public Schools commissioned McMath to write a play celebrating Black History Month to be acted by 4th and 5th grade students, and The Drinking Gourd: Songs and Stories of the Underground Railroad was produced at Hillsboro and Lovettsville Elementary Schools in February 2004. Her stage 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.

Former "Good Neighbor" columnist for Loudoun Art Magazine, McMath has freelanced for a variety of publications including Elan Magazine and The Washington Post Loudoun Extra. In 1995, she became a published author of historic fiction with her "Celebrating the American Woman" series through Servant Publications. In 2001, her Civil War novel Pella's Angel, was published by Goose Creek Productions of Leesburg, Virginia, and McMath created an audio version the next year.  She acted as historical consultant and editor to Pamela Oldham's work, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Legacy of Lincoln, pubished in the fall of 2005.

In 1998, McMath and Joni Lynn Crane founded Run, Rabbit, Run Productions to bring story and history to life through a variety of media. Their history videos have appeared on The History Channel and in Virginia classrooms. McMath's living history productions and plays, 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's former museum career included The Loudoun Museum of Leesburg, Virginia (Board Member), the Office of Public and Academic Programs of The National Museum of American History (Intern Coordinator and creator of the weekly Public Event Information sheet), Docent and Program Coordinator for Fairfax County Park Authority's Dranesville Tavern Museum, and an internship with Gadsby's Tavern Museum of Alexandria, Virginia, where she wrote a short biography of the early 19th century actress Ann Merry Warren.

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, The Virginia Production Alliance, an Associate Member of The Dramatists Guild of America and serves on the Board of Directors of The Hillsboro Community Association.

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