Click here for Meghan's theatre resume. Meghan is an actor / singer / musician based out of New York, Boston and San Francisco where she lives with her husband, CK, and their loving kitty-cats.
Meghan originated the role of Hannah, a dada performance/photo montage artist in THE BLUE FLOWER by award-winning composer/lyricist/book writer Jim Bauer with art direction/conception/co-book writing by Ruth Bauer which she developed in New York in residence at the HERE Arts Center, ASCAP, the Merkin Concert Hall at Lincoln Center, and at The Theatre at St. Clement’s as part of the 2004 New York Musical Theatre Festival. She was a part of The New Works Festival at Perry-Mansfield in Steamboat Springs, CO under the guidance of Stephen Schwartz, and in a 2008 production of The Blue Flower running at the West End Theater produced by the Prospect Theater. She will reprise her signature role in the upcoming production at A.R.T., the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge this December 2010 - January 2011.
Since 2007, Meghan is also a street/subway artist and and can be spotted in NYC subway stations, Harvard Square, Newbury Street & Faneuil Hall as the underground insect-goddess of DAGMAR, the free-folk art-rock opera duo, with music written by and performed with composer Jim Bauer. She also busks solo with banjolele and ukelele as Amity Rose, playing vintage standards for a New Depression Era. Both she and Jim Bauer are members of Music Under New York, the Times Square Alliance "Best of the Buskers" Program and the Faneuil Hall Marketplace Street Performer Program. In 2008, Meghan found herself face-to-face with Liam Gallagher of OASIS, teaching him her tambourine technique when DAGMAR was hired by BBH Advertising/Warner Bros. Music to participate in an innovative promotional release of the OASIS album "Dig Out Your Soul" which utilized NYC street/subway musicians, playing cover versions of 4 of the tracks as a teaser before the album was released. The event was captured in a 17-minute documentary by The Malloy Brothers (videos for White Stripes, Weezer, Vampire Weekend, Black-Eyed Peas...) called "Dig Out Your Soul In the Streets" which won an Innovation Award at the UK Music Awards & a Titanium Lion at Cannes.
In 2009, Meghan appeared at Joe's Pub in with Spottiswoode & His Enemies in a concert reading of ABOVE HELL's KITCHEN, loosely based on Don Giovanni. She also sang the wonderful epic-scale role of Isabella Archer, a Victorian widow who finds love, horimono tattoos & nirvana in Japan, in a dynamic workshop staged reading of TOKIO CONFIDENTIAL music, lyrics and book by Eric Schorr and directed by Kameron Steele. Meghan played Giulietta Trapani, the Italian sculptress in ASPECTS OF LOVE at the Media Theatre, a role which earned her a 2006 Barrymore Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical. She returned to the Media to play Alice Beane aboard the TITANIC. Other theatrical credits include Agave in THE ROCKAE (The Prospect Theater Company), a workshop of LAND OF DREAMS (a dance/experimental theatre piece directed/choreographed by Charles Moulton), and a NY International Fringe Festival appearance as Mrs. Hammer with Kristen Schaal (of "Flight of the Concords") in IN SEARCH OF STANLEY HAMMER. She was Mrs. Cratchit and a host of other characters in A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Lucille Lortel, directed by David Armstrong, music by Dick Gallagher & lyrics by Mark Waldrop.
Meghan holds an AB in Theatre from Smith College, where she also studied voice with Karen Smith-Emerson. She continued her stage training in London with faculty from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the Royal Shakespeare Company. She has studied Viewpoints with Anne Bogart at SITI Company and advanced scene study with Wynn Handman.