Meghan Gardiner

Meghan is a Vancouver based actor and playwright, who has written ten professionally produced plays. Her first play Dissolve premiered at the Vancouver Fringe Festival in 2003 and is still touring to this day. The success of that piece inspired a CBC funded documentary of the same name, garnering Meghan a screenwriting nod at the 2010 Leo Awards, as well as a residency at Green Thumb Theatre. This resulted in Blind Spot, which toured B.C. for two years and Role Call, which garnered Meghan the Sydney Risk Award for Outstanding Emerging Playwright at the 2012 Jessie awards. Wanting to venture into screenwriting, Meghan then wrote and performed in Stalled, a short film that visited 54 film festivals in 2013 alone. She was nominated for both performance and screenwriting at the Leo Awards that year. Meghan was then commissioned to write a piece on sex trafficking for Shameless Hussy Productions in Vancouver, which resulted in Love Bomb. It premiered in 2015, is still being performed throughout the country, and was recently optioned by Jadis Productions to be adapted into a screenplay. Meghan premiered We Three with Carousel Theatre in 2018 and Gross Misconduct in 2019 at the Gateway Theatre, co-produced by SpeakEasy Theatre. She is currently working on two commissions: The Gift Exchange with Carousel Theatre and In The Crease with the Arts Club. As an actor, Meghan is grateful to be a staple of Vancouver’s theatre community, and happily ventures onto film sets whenever the opportunity arises.