Meredith Yanchak attended Duquesne University where she received her Bachelors of Arts in Theatre Arts. At Duquesne, she served as the president of the Duquesne University Red Masquers and participated in a myriad of productions as an actor, director, technician, and playwright. She was also a member of the Duquesne University Chamber Singers.
She received her Masters of Arts in Theatre Education from Emerson College in 2008.
(Go Lions.)
She has toured as an actor with CLIMB Theatre, Inc. in Minneapolis, MN and has worked in various roles with PrimeStage Theatre, Little Lake Theatre, The Summer Company, Temple Civic Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre's Young Company, and Montclair State University's TheatreFest.
Her original plays have been produced across the country and published with Next Stage Press. She is a member of Texas Educational Theatre Association and the Dramatists Guild.
If you ask around, you'll also discover that she loves improvisational comedy, Converse sneakers, Doc Martens, ridiculous earrings, cats, Pittsburgh, the original Star Wars trilogy, artichokes, Mel Brooks movies, pumpkin cheesecake, traveling with her husband, and making long lists of seemingly unrelated things while writing in the third person.
She also dislikes bananas.