BIO

Meredith L. King makes words and sounds collide on the stage, including work as a playwright, performer, lyricist, and composer.  Meredith is currently an artist and creative producer with Maelstrom Collaborative Arts in Cleveland, Ohio where her artistic work includes creating original work for Short Form, Bricolage, Saturnalia, Inferno and The Wandering.  Her credits include work with Blindspot Collective,Women’s Theatre Festival’s Occupy the Stage , Cleveland Public Theatre’s Entry Point & Station Hope Programs and Talespinner Children’s Theatre’s PLAYground. As a director, performer and musician, Meredith has worked with Round House Theatre’s Heyday Players, dog & pony dc, eXtreme eXchange, The Hegira and African Continuum Theatre, including participating in the Kennedy Center’s Page to Stage Festival. Meredith received a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A from Yale University. She has worked professionally as an arts administrator, teacher and community organizer on the national level.  Meredith creates work focused on people who live at the intersections; those who are simultaneously hypervisible and invisible, but whose stories rarely make it to the stage. Meredith is passionate about theatre that brings the personal into the public and serves as a catalyst for connection and community building. 

INSPIRED BY

Celestial bodies, fatness, neurodiversity, spectral figures and things we can't explain, African American culture, families(chosen and blood), ancestry, emotional legacies and generational trauma, queerness

EXPLORING:

An 11 year old multi-racial girl discovers that her family has been keeping a 400-year old black woman in their basement. Do both her moms know? Why is this woman there? Why doesn't she try to leave? How is this woman connected to extreme weather conditions around the nation and her mother's political campaign? How does this discovery impact the girl's own unexplainable abilities?

INSPIRATION FOR PROJECT:

Henry Louis Gates' PBS series "Black in Latin America"; changing US demographics; African orishas; things we don't understand.