Meagan Holdeman

Originally from northern Colorado, Meagan studied technical theatre at Colorado Mesa University with a focus on sound. She freelanced in theatres throughout the Denver area for several years, mixing shows at Town Hall Arts Center, the PACE Center, and Aurora Fox and being a stagehand and audio technician for Lone Tree Arts Center, Newman Center for the Performing Arts, and PACE. She spent summers working out of town; Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Berkshire Theatre Group (MA) and Pacific Conservatory Theatre (CA) before heading out on tour as the Assistant Audio for the First National Tour of Bandstand, which is what she was doing when the pandemic hit in 2020.

 

For years she'd been practicing zero-waste habits in her personal life; the practice of reducing the amount of stuff you put in the trash on a daily basis; she already considered herself an environmentalist. On tour, many of those habits fell by the wayside as a shocking number of venues didn't even have recycling bins. So in 2020 while sitting on her mom's couch, unemployed, with no idea when theatre might return, she applied to graduate school thinking she was no longer willing to let environmentalism be the secondary focus of her life. She came back to life with classes to keep her company during the shutdown and she found herself a new path. During a class that asked "what impact do you want to have on your community?" she discovered the Broadway Green Alliance, Climate Change Theatre Action, Arts & Climate Initiative, and Julie's Bicycle and decided her master plan would be environmental theatre.

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In December 2021 she produced a Climate Change Theatre Action production called A Future We Create at Town Hall Arts Center as a fundraiser for Denver Actors Fund and announced her plans to start a chapter of the Broadway Green Alliance called Greener Theatre Colorado and in April 2022 she partnered with Colorado Theatre Guild to host a community discussion to get her chapter started.

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She is now working full time as an audio engineer at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company, she is finishing up her Master of Arts in Conservation Biology at the end of 2023 and is working with an incredible group of humans to write a strategic plan for Greener Theatre Colorado.