Circle and Square Creative

Director, Producer, Small Is All Founder
Meredyth Pederson CooperMeredyth has more than a decade of experience creating theatre for multiple generations to enjoy together. Meredyth’s career in non-profit theatre includes experience as a teaching artist, training facilitator, program administrator, stage manager, and director. Meredyth has an MFA in Drama and Theatre for Youth and Communities from the University of Texas at Austin and a BA in Theatre from American University in Washington, DC. Meredyth lives in Raleigh with her husband and three-year-old child.

Aggregate Theatre Producing Artistic Director
Matthew HagerMatthew is a theatre artist who loves to perform, write, and produce works that get people of all ages excited about theatre. He started Aggregate in 2017 with the mission of developing the next generation of theatre lovers in the Triangle, and since then, Aggregate has created and produced a variety of shows for youth and adults alike. Matthew is so happy for Aggregate to be partnering with Meredyth and Small Is All to support bringing this fun and touching show to the youngest theatre audiences. Matthew also spends a lot of his time teaching acting and voice for the Alli Mae Carnes Studio, touring and directing shows for young actors, and being a crazy theatre dad for his amazing performing shih tzu named Piper. Infinite love to Alli.
Original Creative Team
Circle and Square was originally devised by Rhonda Bell, JaneMarie Erikson, Elizabeth Ingram, Jeremy Kisling, and Meredyth Pederson Cooper for Lexington Children’s Theatre. Produced with permission from Lexington Children’s Theatre.