Meg is also a company member of Austin-based RUDE MECHS theatre collective (www.rudemechs.com), and served as the co-director of their outreach program, GRRL ACTION, 2008-2010. Meg originated the role of Annabellee in RUDE MECHS’ Western operetta I've Never Been So Happy, winner of the NEA’s Distinguished New Play Development Award, with music by Peter Stopschinski and book by Kirk Lynn. I’ve Never Been So Happy was presented at ARENA STAGE in Washington, DC in January 2011 as part of the #New Play Festival and by Center Theatre Group at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in LA in October 2011. Meg is also a dancer 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.
As a community-engaged artist, Meg creates and performs original multi-media works that explore issues of place, memory, history, and social justice. In December 2010, Meg completed a residency at the Contemporary Arts Center in Troy, NY (CAC - Woodside) and her newest work July Fly, a performance layering places and spaces through movement and video, was presented as a part of Troy Night Out in November 2010. MegAnneMaud , a performance mapping multiple histories through video and dance, was created as part of her 2009 residency at CAC - Woodside and later presented as a Rude Fusion co-production at The Off Center in Austin. To correlate with Chat/piles, Meg's piece dealing with the history of mining at the Tar Creek Superfund Site in Northeastern Oklahoma, Meg was awarded an Oklahoma Arts Council grant to lead autobiographical writing workshops with high school students that culminated in a reading as part of the 2009 Tar Creek Conference.
For
Women and Their Work, Meg coordinated Learning Through the Arts, a
professional development program that helped teachers integrate more
arts-based lesson plans to core curriculum at Presidential Meadows
Elementary in Manor, Texas. Meg
has 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
for the Humanities Institute, and a guest curator, choreographer and
director for the Harry Ransom Center.
Meg leads autobiographical performance workshops for teen girls, and directed of the Pioneer Valley Grrls Theatre Project, a program of Servicenet, and Grrl Action Boston, a Rude Mechs' satellite project. Meg also taught autobiographical writing and performance for pre-teen girls in the Expressive Arts Therapy department at the Northeast Center for Youth and Families.
Meg received her MFA in Performance as Public Practice from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007.
