Meg received her MFA in Performance as Public Practice from the University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance in 2007, and is a company member of Austin-based Rude Mechs. There she served as the co-director of their education program, Grrl Action, from 2008 to 2010, advancing girls’ self-efficacy and resilience through original solo performance works. Meg originated the role of Annabellee in Rude Mechs’ operetta I’ve Never Been So Happy, winner of the NEA’s Distinguished New Play Development Award. It was presented at Arena Stage in Washington, DC in January 2011 as part of the New Play Festival and by the Center Theatre Group at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in LA in October 2011. Meg is also a dancer and performed for several years with The Meeting Point (chr. Julie Nathanielsz), whose Working the Line performance at the 2011 Fusebox Festival was awarded Best Short Work by the Austin Critics Circle. For Women and Their Work in Austin, Meg coordinated Learning Through the Arts, a professional development program that helped teachers integrate more arts-based lesson plans to core curriculum. Meg taught acting and theatre history at Texas A&M University and The University of Texas at Austin, where she also served as a consultant and workshop facilitator for the Living Newspaper project of the Humanities Institute, and a guest curator, choreographer and director for the Harry Ransom Center.

As a community-engaged artist, Meg creates and performs multi-media performance works that explore issues of place, memory, history, and social justice. Her most recent project, Veja Doolitte: Live in Concert, directed by Susie Schutt, was presented in 2013-2014 at The Wilbury Group as part their new play development program, and at the RISD Museum, as part of Local Acts Exhibit, during a week of performance she curated titled Story-lines. Other performers during this week included Katie Pearl, Nicole Maynard, Kelly Seigh, Stephanie Turner, and Melody Ruffin-Ward.

Email Meg at: meg@mantonavenueproject.org