actor

AEA, SAGe, MFA

Meridith C. Grundei (she/her) is a New York-based actor, improviser, director, educator, and producer with a passion for devised work, non-linear storytelling and out-of-the-box thinking across stage and screen, though she can be found playing an overly concerned parent in a commercial or two.

Her credits span across television, film, theatre, and voiceover work, with award-winning directors and producers around the country-she’s won some nice awards herself. She could elaborate on it all here, or you could just peek her resume below.

Meridith has trained with some pretty awesome people (peek resume), cutting her improv teeth at IO Chicago and becoming an Associate Faculty Member at Second City Chicago. With an M.F.A. in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University, she is an Associate Artist with Local Theater Company (Boulder, CO) and travels the country teaching and performing improv as a guest and adjunct teacher.

Meridith’s most recent acting credits include: BANISHED with CoLab Arts, The Father Project (in development), Memory Home with HB Studio and numerous readings and short films.

film

commercial

stage

The Three Faces of Dr. Crippin

Sweet & Lucky | Third Rail Projects & DCPA

Messenger #1

The Taming of The Shrew | CSF

Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play

things people have said...

"But it’s Grundei’s performance, specifically her emotionally naked wail near the play’s end that finally breaks through the play’s thick crust of ice. It’s a stunning moment, one that expresses in purest human form the pain of the story."

Mark CollinsThe Daily Camera, Boulder

The whole production is original and very entertaining, but it's Meridith C. Grundei — small, graceful, dark, pouty and vivacious — who brings the stage to life every time she enters as Cora. Her strange little jumps and off-key singing when Cora performs (while audience members exclaim, "She's truly dreadful") are one of the evening's high points. And so is her murder, which seriously pisses her off.

Juliet WittmanThe WESTWORD

"The Grundeis are couple of unconventional artists, and nothing if not an unconventional couple. Meridith is a director and Gary a composer, but both are performers to the bone, and neither is confined to a single discipline.

John Moore2017 True West Award