MEREDITH BEAN McMATH is a published author, prize-winning playwright and award-winning historian.  A Masters candidate in Arts Administration at Shenandoah University, she is the Director of Run, Rabbit, Run Productions, Inc. and Managing Editor of LoudounPerformingArts.com. Her career includes video documentaries, contemporary and historical plays, historic fiction novels and articles, and past arts management positions as Founder and Artistic Director of the nonprofit Aurora Studio Theatre, Inc. and Program Director of The Round Hill Arts Center. 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. 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, and her freelance articles have appeared in magazines and newspapers including The Piedmont Virginian, élan Magazine and The Washington Post Loudoun Extra. She's served 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 Director of Run, Rabbit, Run Productions, Inc. and Run Rabbit Run Theatre, McMath creates theatre arts and arts education opportunities for communities, theatres, museums, libraries and educational organizations. Currently writing her thesis towards completion of her MS in Arts Administration from Shenandoah University, McMath recently served an internship with the Office of Membership and Development of The Weinberg Center for the Arts in Frederick, Maryland, where she wrote press releases, created brochures and posters, and compiled artists' information. She is the editor of LoudounPerformingArts.com which provides a connecting point and resource for patrons, producers and performers.  While the Program Director of Round Hill Arts Center(200-2009), 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, often provides arts management consultatations to area nonprofits, and served on the 2010 Region IVb Grants Panel for the Virginia Commission  for the Arts. 

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.  Her play Case 22 appeared at the 2010 Capital Fringe Festival and was designated a "Must See" production by DC Theatre Scene.  Her light musical Romance from Broadway to Lincoln Center, will be produced August 21 and 22, 2010 by Loudoun Lyric Opera at Franklin Park Performing and Visual Arts Center, Purcellville, Virginia.  In December, 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.  In 2007, 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.  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 in 2003 and $15,000 toward the Waterford Capital Campaign in 2000.  Loudoun County Public Schools commissioned McMath to write a play celebrating Black History Month in 2003, and since that time The Drinking Gourd: Songs and Stories of the Underground Railroad has been produced from Texas to The Philippines.

RUN, RABBIT, RUN PRODUCTIONS, Inc.

Founded in 1998, Run, Rabbit, Run Productions to bring story to life through a variety of media. Co-founder and writer/producer Meredith Bean Mcmath has created productions ranging in scope from a 1943-style live radio show to an 1855 abolitionist fundraiser and she has been commissioned to create programs for 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, McMath has 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 inclusion in the May-June 2010 Franklin Park Performing Arts Center "Women with Vision" Art Exhibit.  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 Administration 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  and arts management in Sydney and Cairns, Australia  through Shenandoah University's Global Experiential Learning  program.

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