Meredith Bartmon

Hello! My name is Meredith Bartmon and I am a recent transplant from South Florida to Central New Jersey. I'm thrilled to be the new Artistic and Casting Assistant at McCarter Theatre in Princeton.

I also recently completed a season in the Literary and Casting department at Asolo Rep in Sarasota, Fl. In this position, I served as production dramaturg and/or dramaturgy assistant for the season. I supported engagement programming and materials such as lobby displays, program articles and facilitating talkbacks. I also assisted in the organization and facilitation of all local casting, supported season planning (IE festival coverage and play reports), and assisted in producing Asolo's Ground Floor new play commission.

Previous dramaturgy credits include Zoetic Stage's inaugural Finstrom...

Hello! My name is Meredith Bartmon and I am a recent transplant from South Florida to Central New Jersey. I'm thrilled to be the new Artistic and Casting Assistant at McCarter Theatre in Princeton.

I also recently completed a season in the Literary and Casting department at Asolo Rep in Sarasota, Fl. In this position, I served as production dramaturg and/or dramaturgy assistant for the season. I supported engagement programming and materials such as lobby displays, program articles and facilitating talkbacks. I also assisted in the organization and facilitation of all local casting, supported season planning (IE festival coverage and play reports), and assisted in producing Asolo's Ground Floor new play commission.

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, etc.

All recommendations on this page are plays for which I have provided dramaturgy and/or facilitated talkbacks. I hope you will better understand my voice and aesthetic as an artist while reading these recs (and I hope you will also read these plays!)

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  • A gleefully dark comedy about the power of women in typically male professions - and no it's not the profession you're thinking of. Therapy has the suspenseful energy of a true crime podcast and the characters are great fun to play. Jena is an excellent emerging playwright and I look forward to following her work.

    A gleefully dark comedy about the power of women in typically male professions - and no it's not the profession you're thinking of. Therapy has the suspenseful energy of a true crime podcast and the characters are great fun to play. Jena is an excellent emerging playwright and I look forward to following her work.

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    Sweeney Todd with bees. The Apiary is unsettling in its observation of the human condition, thought provoking in its vision of the near future, and beautiful in its theatrical vision. Audiences at the Urbanite Theatre Modern Works Festival were deeply moved and completely entranced by the story and characters. I can't wait to see this play fully realized. It's an incredible opportunity for creative design work.

    Sweeney Todd with bees. The Apiary is unsettling in its observation of the human condition, thought provoking in its vision of the near future, and beautiful in its theatrical vision. Audiences at the Urbanite Theatre Modern Works Festival were deeply moved and completely entranced by the story and characters. I can't wait to see this play fully realized. It's an incredible opportunity for creative design work.

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    In this vibrant portrait, the art collector becomes a curator of the blooming color of Etta Cone's inner life. Rose explores Etta’s permanent state of urgent becoming and challenges ideas of patriarchy through bodily freedom. Rose's Cone sisters didn’t put their art on a pedestal to never be touched – they use it, they wear it, they drape themselves in it. A woman is also more than something to be marveled at. Rose's characters are sensual beings. They do not break easily and ‘if it breaks, it breaks.” Better to break by living than to die on a pedestal.

    In this vibrant portrait, the art collector becomes a curator of the blooming color of Etta Cone's inner life. Rose explores Etta’s permanent state of urgent becoming and challenges ideas of patriarchy through bodily freedom. Rose's Cone sisters didn’t put their art on a pedestal to never be touched – they use it, they wear it, they drape themselves in it. A woman is also more than something to be marveled at. Rose's characters are sensual beings. They do not break easily and ‘if it breaks, it breaks.” Better to break by living than to die on a pedestal.

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    The atmosphere of this character driven drama surrounding the release of Robert Altman's film Nashville reminds me of some of Sam Shepard's plays which put American culture in the 70s under a lens. Independent, ambitious and grand Pauline and Bob are wonderfully unlikable but you still root for them because they feel like underdogs in this vivid rendering of 1975 NYC and Hollywood. I find the generational relationship between mother and daughter an especially vibrant and resonant aspect of the play. Their climactic fight is full of emotionally impactful and insightful family trauma.

    The atmosphere of this character driven drama surrounding the release of Robert Altman's film Nashville reminds me of some of Sam Shepard's plays which put American culture in the 70s under a lens. Independent, ambitious and grand Pauline and Bob are wonderfully unlikable but you still root for them because they feel like underdogs in this vivid rendering of 1975 NYC and Hollywood. I find the generational relationship between mother and daughter an especially vibrant and resonant aspect of the play. Their climactic fight is full of emotionally impactful and insightful family trauma.

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    The 19th Amendment was a Thunderclap - one of the biggest democratizing events in US history. But now our Democracy hangs by a thread. This wonderfully theatrical, super funny short play explores how different generations of women grapple with the responsibility of civic engagement. Mom Rachel wants to build on the equity won by suffragists while teenager Alice believes voting is an illusion of power weaponized to comfort society into believing we live in a representative democracy and the only way to respond is to disengage. Between Gen X and Gen Z, American democracy hangs in the balance. 

    The 19th Amendment was a Thunderclap - one of the biggest democratizing events in US history. But now our Democracy hangs by a thread. This wonderfully theatrical, super funny short play explores how different generations of women grapple with the responsibility of civic engagement. Mom Rachel wants to build on the equity won by suffragists while teenager Alice believes voting is an illusion of power weaponized to comfort society into believing we live in a representative democracy and the only way to respond is to disengage. Between Gen X and Gen Z, American democracy hangs in the balance. 

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