CREATING CHANGE through THEATRE - FILM - PHOTOGRAPHY - ART - PERFORMANCE

WRITER DIRECTOR PRODUCER

ANN P MEREDITH

SWORDFISH PRODUCTIONS PICTURES & THEATRICAL

NEW YORK - LOS ANGELES

PLAYWRIGHT RESUME

Playwright Ann P Meredith's unprecedented writing focuses on giving a compassionate

and realistic face and voice to Lesbians and Lesbian culture, addressing issues most often ignored

by the general public.

Plays

2020- Forgotten Angels, Lesbian Nurses in The Vietnam War

2020- ‘O'- The O Ring Challenger Disaster and Murder of Christa McCauliffe & Judith Resnik

2020-SPECIAL - Sexual Harassment, Rape and Sexual Assault

2019- THE FORGOTTEN-Child Torture, Incarceration, Experimentation, Interrogation, The Tank NYC

2019-TRIANGLES- LGBT Victims and Witnesses of The Holocaust

Leslie Lohman Museum of Lesbian & Gay Art SOHO

1996-STRAP ‘EM DOWN- The World of Drag Kings, SOMA Gallery San Francisco, 1 Act

1995-International Lesbian March- NGO Forum, Huairou, China.

1993-REACHING COMMON GROUND-I Did Not Come to Africa to Die

Luo Tribe Ruma Village, Kisimu, PaYaPa Arts Center Nairobi, Kenya

1989-STARVING MY MOTHER TO SLEEP, Pedophilia and Family Values, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento

1988-THE BALANCE OF AGING, Turning 40, Katz Studio, Berkeley, 1 Act

1987-UNTIL THAT LAST BREATH! The Global Face of Lesbians/Women with HIV/AIDS

SOMA Gallery, San Francisco, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC, 1 Act

1986-The Re-Definition of Home-An End to the Legacy of Poverty, Hotel 309, NYC, 1 Act

1985- Tall in the Saddle- Lesbian Cowgirls of the International Gay Rodeo Association IGRA

1980-And No One Heard Me Scream, The Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, Dixon Place NYC

Affiliations

Adjunct Professor NYU, The New School for Social Research, Queer Caucus for Art-College Art Association, The Feminist Art Institute.

Memberships

The Honor Roll Playwrights -Lesbian, Bi, Trans, Women of a Color over 40, Episcopal Actors Guild, The League of Professional Theatre Women.

Awards

Fringe Festival-Best Play, Best Director-Ann, Four Best Actor Audience Awards - SPECIAL 1 Act Semi/Finalist- Broadway Showcase NY New Work Theatre Festival, Duke Theatre- SPECIAL 1 Act

The League of Professional Theatre Women Judith's Room Selection, The Tank NYC,

Lila Wallace Reader's Digest International Fellowship, Nelson B Delavan Foundation Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Creative Time Inc, Pettus Crowe Foundation, Zellerbach Family Fund, the LJ and Mary C Skaggs Foundation, Change Inc., The Haven Foundation, The Rainbow Fund.

Permanent Collections

The Library of Congress, The Smithsonian Institution-Museum of American History, New York and San Francisco Public Library's.

Ann's fifty year career body of work is housed at The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women Harvard University expanding their global data base on Lesbian and LGBTQIA+ content.

Social Media

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/annp.meredith.3

Twitter: @annpmeredith

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/specialfilmgmail.comapm7/?hl=en

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ann-p-meredith-5bb56124

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

Ann’s work merits attention...

provocative, political and self expressive.

A strong minded and dedicated artist Ann makes art that is up front and easily conveyed to a wide audience as her message deals with contemporary issues completely relevant to the world we live in.

Ann’s work is often both subtle and acute, a contrast to the intensity of their meaning. Her work stimulates discussion about subjects, which are too often ignored or avoided by the general public.

-Agnes Gund, President Emerita Museum of Modern Art New York

The first images one sees when entering the Museum are Ann ’s black and white photographs of HIV positive women and children.

Most arresting was Eleana y Rosa, the Ellipse at the White House, Washington, DC which depicts a gaunt, exhausted-looking young girl in the embrace of her mother, who crouches beside her.

We need to see these images of HIV-Positive women of color in Meredith’s work.

-Eric Sutphin

Art Critic

Art in America

The exhibition is particularly valuable for revisiting the Art of Ann P Meredith who early on, traveled the United States documenting the lives of women living with HIV/AIDS.

-Holland Cotter

Art Critic

The New York Times

Ann P. Meredith’s work is both innovative and important. I have known and respected Ann for many years and continue to be impressed by both her artistic vision and the quality of her scholarship. Ann’s work has distinguished her and gained the attention and respect of her peers.

-Marcia Tucker Director Emerita

The New Museum of Contemporary Art

New York

Ann is exceptionally talented. Her Art in particular has had a great impact on the world at large as she has engaged some of the most urgent and at times overlooked situations in our society.

Her documentary on women who suffered with AIDS was instrumental in focusing our attention for the first time on this particular segment of the AIDS pandemic.

-Lowery Stokes Sims Director Emerita and Trustee The Studio Museum in Harlem, Curator Emerita Museum of Arts and Design, Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, Associate Curator Emerita 20th Century Art The Metropolitan Museum

I experience Ann and her Art as a force for Good. She pursues her dreams and commitments; she is an inspiration. Her unflinching courage and innate sense of finding the essence of people are remarkable.

-Marcia V. Mayo, Director

The Fund to Preserve Diplomatic Treasures Abroad

Art in Embassies

U.S. Department of State

Washington, D. C.

Ann is someone whose work I hold in high esteem. Ms. Meredith’s hybrid form of expression produces vivid and powerful works that often discomfort the viewer.

I value the unique combination of aesthetic, personal and socio-political elements that Ann brings to bear in her work.

This particular power is found only in art of the highest caliber and ambition.

-Andy Grundberg

Professor, Dean

Associate Provost Emeritus

Corcoran College of Art and Design

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Washington, D. C.

On every subject she touches...

Ann P Meredith's courageous lens shines the white hot light of Truth.

...Many of which others fear to face.

-Edith P Mayo

Curator Emeritas

Women & Political History

National Museum of American Art

The Smithsonian Institution

Ann brings a heartwarming empathy and sensibility to all of her work.

She cares for people and has the capacity of establishing a rapport with them that adds much to the import of whatever story she pursues.

Ann is a dedicated and intelligent Artist.

-Ruth Lester

Curatorial Associate Emerita International Center of Photography

ICP

New York

WRITER DIRECTOR PRODUCER

PLAY...THE FORGOTTEN-Child Torture, Incarceration, Experimentation

PLAY... SPECIAL-Sexual Harassment, Rape and Sexual Assault

PLAY..."O"-The Murder of Christa McAulliffe and Judith Resnik, N.A.S.A.'s Challenger Disaster

PLAYS... SACRIFICE USAF/FORGOTTEN ANGELS-Lesbian Nurses in the Vietnam War

PLAY... TRIANGLES-Witnesses of the Holocaust

PLAY...AND NO ONE HEARD ME SCREAM

PLAYWRIGHT RESUME

FILM-TWO DAYS IN JANUARY

FILM-TRIANGLES - Witnesses of the Holocaust

FILM-OUR RIGHT TO MARRY - Our Right To Love

FILM-STRAP 'EM DOWN! The World of Drag Kings

FILM-TALL IN THE SADDLE -Cowgirls, Ranch & Rodeo Gals

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

I A WITNESS

TALL IN THE SADDLE

LES CABINES

WOMEN MINING

BILLIONAIRE'S BEACH-MALIBU

SCULPTURE - PAPER BODIES

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