Meg Taranto

Meg (she/they) is a performer, theatre maker, writer, director and dramaturg working across stage and screen in Naarm (Melbourne), whose practice is fuelled by a love of language, the natural world, play, liveness and the nexuses of ideas. They like to blend forms and make audiences feel located at the meeting places of art and science, the tangible and the invisible, built versus natural environments, aural and visual forms, the comic and the dramatic.

In 2021 Meg completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) where they were awarded the Patricia Kennedy scholarship for outstanding achievement in performance. Whilst at VCA she devised work for Otello…What’s Changed? (dir. Robert Draffin), Sleep Faster! Show Cat! (dir. Emma Hall), Robert Mueller’s Day Off (dir. Jason Maling) Low Hanging Fruit (dir. Company 2021), created the participatory work Who Are You to Me? (2019) for the DISCORD879 festival and alongside the other members of Water Closette Company devised their graduating work B**CH. 

Meg also directed Our Father by Lucy Holz (Melbourne Fringe, 2019) and acted as dramaturg on Ned Kelly the Big Gay Musical (dir. Kaine!). She will assist direct An Uncertain Time (dir. Sarah Austin, Arts Centre Melbourne) in mid 2023. She has performed in short films Touie, (dir. Mattie Mcleod) Never the Bride (dir. Mattie Mcleod) and Even the Dinosaurs Were Young (2021) which she also co-wrote and co-directed. Additionally, Meg has been published in Voiceworks magazine and wrote their first play The Magpie in 2021. With every project Meg hopes to use the vitality of storytelling to make the world a more empathetic place.

Productions with Fever103: Climbers (2023)