Heather Meyer is a playwright, humor writer, and performer. Her work has been seen on Reductress.com, The Belladonna Comedy, The Cooper Review, Emphasis, The Brave New Workshop, and stages across the country. She is also a writer for the animated children's show, Uma and Devan: Namaste. Heather has been commissioned to write plays for Theatre Pro Rata (The Convent of Pleasure), Swandive Theater (Ms. Julie: No Strindbergs Attached), Clarke Univeristy (Otherworld), DalekoArts (The Piano: A Midwest Haunting) and the Bakken Museum (The Greatest Shadow Show).
Heather uses theatre and comedy to enlighten, enliven, educate, and entertain. Frequent themes in her work are unsuspecting historical subjects, the modern west, corporate environments, women’s issues, wordplay, and her formative years in her home state of North Dakota which was before oil was discovered there, so it wasn't famous for anything other than Louis L'Amour and 1995 number one MLB draft pick Darin Erstad (I went to high school with his lower draft pick brother).
Heather has been artist-in-residence at the Akumal Artist Residency in Akumal, Mexico, National Winter Playwrights Retreat in Creede, CO, and Proof Public in Minneapolis, MN.
She is the creator of the annual sketch comedy game show, Women's History Month: The Historical Comedybration (with fabulous prizes) which has run every March in Minneapolis since 2013. She made the short film Zombie Sweater out of spite. She is a founding member of the Twin Cities Playwright Cabal, a collective of female-identified playwrights increasing the visibility of new work in Minnesota.
You can frequently find her performing throughout the Twin Cities. She's a company member of the Theater of Public Policy and a founding member of the TC Playwrights Cabal. She's studied at The Second City, Brave New Workshop, and has an MFA in Playwriting and an MA in Sustainable Design. She teaches comedy writing and improv in Minneapolis.
She likes doing experimental baking as Cooking Heather and taking life advice from her cat.