MEG GILBERT is an NYC born and raised theater director, writer, educator, arts administrator, community organizer, project manager, and many-hat-wearer who relocated to Sarasota, FL in 2017. With over a decade of experience in the professional theater, Meg is currently a producer for NYC based company Parity Productions, working to promote female, trans and gender expansive artists; teaches public speaking for Cornell University; is a teaching Artist for the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall & Florida Studio Theatre; and is the Social Media Manager for the League of Professional Theatre Women. Prior to that, she served as Literary Associate at Florida Studio Theatre, where she supported community outreach programs and New Play Development, managed the office on a day-to-day basis, as well as directing blackbox, TYA and staged reading productions. Meg was the Assistant Director for The Suffragist Project: Celebrating 100 Years of the Woman’s Right to Vote, a two year bi-county artistic endeavor to bring programming on women's rights to the Sarasota/Manatee community that reached thousands of participants.