Mae Ziglin Meidav is Artistic Director and founder of Brookside Repertory Theatre is the recipient of the California Arts Council Playwrights Fellowship, 1991-92, granted for Delicate Pin Stripes and Other Tales, a two-act solo performance script. Full-length plays include: Island Heat, the first production of Brookside Repertory Theatre; Basha Rubenchek from Minsk, Comrade of Petaluma, recipient of a grant from California Living History Center; and Flying Out of Formation. Meidav’s produced short plays include: Speak Softly and Carry A Big Computer part of Brookside Rep’s winning production of Best Collected Shorts at the 2003 SF Fringe Festival; Chanukah Is Not the Jewish Christmas, and McNally and the Ghost of Christmas Past performed at Brookside Rep’s Holiday Shorts; and Joseph and Potiphor’s Wife at the 2006 SF Fringe Festival. Fully staged solo performances include: The Physics of Bodies in Motion; The Interview, Or, Would You Consider Saudi Arabia; To Have and To Hold; Bessie, Peshie; The Butcher; Ejecting a Jeep from an Airplane; My Zayde, Or, Never Turn The Pickle Barrel Sour. Selected for the San Francisco 2000 Solo Mio Festival, Meidav performed When You’re Down, You’re Up: A Guide to an American Yiddish Family. Meidav, a native of St. Louis, earned academic degrees in mathematics and physics from Washington University and University of Missouri, an M.A. degree and Ph.D in sociology from University of California, Riverside. She taught sociology at St. John’s University, Queens, New York, held a Visiting Scholar position at University of California, Berkeley.
