MEG ARANEO (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based theatre maker and scholar whose work focuses on the intersection of performance and the history of neurological impairments. Meg embraces interdisciplinary work that places practice in conversation with histories and theories of performance. She has worked collaboratively with performing artists from across the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. She has appeared in such works as Mosca [Fly] by Fabio Rubiano, The Pelican by August Strindberg, Woyzeck by George Buchner, and a stage adaption of Akira Kurosawa’s iconic film Rashomon. She recently collaborated with jazz musician, poet, and visual artist Oliver Lake and composer Rob Reddy on the multi-disciplinary performance piece Interruption! that was presented at BRIC Arts Media in Brooklyn. In spring 2024, she was awarded an artist residency at the Catwalk Institute in Catskill, NY. Her upcoming original play, Salomania, will premiere in spring 2025.

Meg has written on contemporary theatre as well as published several performance and book reviews. She has presented papers at leading academic conferences, including those of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, American Society of Theatre Research, Modernist Studies Association, and International Federation for Theatre Research.

Currently, Meg is an Instructor of Drama at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Associate Producer of Programs at the Martin E. Segal Center. In 2016, she co-founded with Rob Reddy Citizen Arts and Education. In 2023, she launched The Nest, Citizen Arts’s program for emerging performing and visual artists.

Meg holds a BA in Political Science from Johns Hopkins, an MFA in Acting from Carnegie Mellon and a Ph.D. in Theatre Studies from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.