Meredith L. King is a playwright, director, composer, and performing artist based in Cleveland, Ohio. Her credits as a playwright include work with Maelstrom Collaborative Arts (Short Form),Cleveland Public Theatre’s Entry Point New Play Development Program (Saturated Fat and Bipolar Mixtape) & Station Hope Programs (Under/Stand), Talespinner Children’s Theatre’s PLAYground (The Garden of In-Between), and eXtreme eXchange (The Dating Game: A Health Care Play). As a director, performer and musician, Meredith has worked with Round House Theatre’s Heyday Players, dog & pony dc, 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 and teacher as well as working as a community organizer on the national level. Meredith served a three-year term as a judge for Washington, DC’s regional theatre awards, The Helen Hayes Awards, and has also served six years as a reader/judge for the Source Theatre Festival. Recently, Meredith served as a reader/judge for the Marilyn Bianchi Kids Playwriting Festival at Dobama Theatre in Cleveland, OH and the Young Playwrights Fest at Pegasus Theatre in Chicago, IL, in addition to teaching poetry with Literary Cleveland. Meredith frequently creates work focused on people who live at the intersections, 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.