College of Performing Arts Faculty

Profile

Meredith Lynsey Schade is a commercial and non-profit producer with two decades in the theatre industry.  She is the founder of Rebel Theatricals, a commercial production company producing both on and off-Broadway. Most recently, she was the Managing Director of Barrington Stage Company. Prior to this, she was the Producing Director of HERE Arts Center, producer of the PROTOTYPE Festival. She produced the world premiere of Taylor Mac and Matt Ray's The Hang . Other credits include the Broadway productions of The Inheritance; Hadestown; Network; What the Constitution Means to Me; The Glass Menagerie; A Doll’s House Part 2; Hello Dolly; The Front Page; Spring Awakening; Bridges of Madison County; and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony Award). Off-Broadway: Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe (New World Stages); Uncle Vanya with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Saarsgaard, The Forest with Diane Wiest, and Venus in Fur (Classic Stage Company). As one of the founders of the non-profit company The Vicious Circle, she has produced the international Gun Control Theatre Action Week; the two-year, international, 17-play cycle by Erik Ehn titled Soulographie (including its two week marathon of performances at La Mama); and the developed the devised play Unnatural Acts (Classic Stage Company). The former Executive Director of ArtWallah, she also founded the e-play periodical StageReads and has worked in various capacities with Classic Stage Company, Ars Nova, Dee Gee Theatricals, the Center for New Performance, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, and on a number of independent films. 

Degrees Held

MFA, Producing, California Institute of the Arts
BFA, Design & Technical Theatre, University of Connecticut

Awards And Honors

2020 Tony Award, Best New Play - The Inheritance

2019 Tony Award, Best New Musical - Hadestown

2013 Tony Award, Best New Play - Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike