Meredith Bartmon
Meredith Bartmon is a Florida based dramaturg and actor.
I am currently the Dramaturgy and Casting Apprentice at Asolo Rep in Sarasota, Fl. I aim to hone my skill as a production and development dramaturg and develop my ability as a Literary Manager so I can better serve the storytelling moving forward in my career.
I've also taken on the position of LMDA VP for Florida. My...
Meredith Bartmon is a Florida based dramaturg and actor.
I am currently the Dramaturgy and Casting Apprentice at Asolo Rep in Sarasota, Fl. I aim to hone my skill as a production and development dramaturg and develop my ability as a Literary Manager so I can better serve the storytelling moving forward in my career.
I've also taken on the position of LMDA VP for Florida. My primary goal in this position is to develop the nueral network of new play develoment and literary work in Florida in order to establish Florida as a primary incubator for the new American canon and make more space for dramaturgy work in professional theatre in the state.
Previous dramaturgy credits include Zoetic Stage's inaugural Finstrom Festival of New Work in Miami, Urbanite Theatre's Modern Works Festival in Sarasota, Mad Cow Theatre's Women's Voices Festival in Orlando, the Playwright's Development Program in Miami, FIU's The Greenhouse, FAU Theatre Lab's New Works Festival in Boca Raton, a world premiere production at Perseverance Theatre in Alaska, the New Year/New Play Festival and Young Playwrights Festival at Palm Beach Dramaworks (West Palm Beach), and the Young Playwrights Festival at Florida Stage (Manalapan).
Recently, I've been working with playwright Tamara Kissane on a new musical in development. I have also provided freelance dramaturgical feedback for various scripts in development, worked with digital new play development initiatives across the state of Florida as well as volunteered for fundraisers. I'm committed to being a conduit for stories around climate change, society and community, and compelling storytellers. It is the responsibility of the dramaturg to use our skills to build empathy, be curious, create connections and notice.
I'm a member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America, Actors Equity Association, and UK Equity. I obtained an MA in Acting from East 15 Acting School in London and a BFA in Music Theatre from New World School of the Arts in Miami. I participated in the American Theatre Wing’s college-to-career intensive, SpringboardNYC, in Manhattan in the summer of 2008.
All recommendations on this page are plays for which I have provided dramaturgy. I hope you will better understand my voice and aesthetic as a dramaturg while reading these recs (and I hope you will also read these plays.) I went into the pandemic with the goals to make space for marginalized voices and gain agency over the kind of stories I wanted to see exist. As the upheaval continues my goals find new pathways like: challenging the boundaries of 'the rules' of theatre making forms; telling stories of our time for the sake of contemporary artists and audiences and the ones who come after; investigating the new conceptualization of global and local; calling in gatekeepers to lay down their gates; interrogating authenticity and activating advocacy; maintaining steady forward pressure on the urge to snap back; and...
My big pipe dream goal (putting it into the universe) is script development at Pixar.