Barbara Meek

Previous Trinity Rep Roles
This is Ms. Meek’s 102nd production with Trinity Rep. Highlights include Fences, Boesman and Lena, Peer Gynt, The Shadow Box, The Threepenny Opera, The Sly Fox, The Taming of the Shrew, The Dresser, Bus Stop, Passion Play, Tartuffe, The Visit, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Camino Real, Italian American Reconciliation, The Cherry Orchard, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, From the Mississippi Delta, Once In A Lifetime, sixteen roles in Fires in the Mirror (here and on multi-state tour), Into the Woods, Romeo and Juliet, The Music Man, Having Our Say (Best Actress, Outer Critics Circle Award), A Christmas Carol, Master Class, My Fair Lady, The New England Sonata, Wit, Nickel and Dimed, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Henriad, Suddenly Last Summer, Cyrano de Bergerac; Firs, Cherry Orchard; Stage Manager, Our Town; Ana, The Clean House.


2007-2008 Season
Slade, Lily Littlepaugh, All the King’s Men; Duchess of York, Richard III.

Other Theaters
Ms. Meek played the role of Sadie in the European premiere of Having Our Say at Vienna's English Theatre in Austria. She recently appeared in the world premiere of A Lesson Before Dying by Romulus Linney at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Ms. Meek has also performed at Hilberry Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Cleveland Play House, Loretto-Hilton, Hampton Playhouse, O'Neill Center and Brandeis University Theatre.

Film
Second Sight with Bronson Pinchot.

Television
Brother to Dragons, The House of Mirth, and Life Among the Lowly for PBS; See How She Runs with Joanne Woodward; Jimmy B. and Andre with Susan Clark and Alex Karras. She co-starred on Archie Bunker's Place on CBS and in Melba on ABC, and for five seasons starred in Big Brother Jake on the Family Channel.

Other
Ms. Meek received the Bannister History Maker’s Award, the Foundation for Repertory Theatre Award, the Wayne State University Arts Achievement Award in Theatre, and, in 1998, was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Arts Degree from the University of Rhode Island. She received the 2002 Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence from the Boston Theatre Critics Association and the 2004 Rhode Island Pell Award. She is the proud mother of Leslie Matuko Molson.