Founders

Sarah-Violet Bliss is a writer and performer from Brooklyn, New York. She started playwriting and acting at St. Ann's School and continued to pursue creative activities at Oberlin College. Back in New York, she writes and acts for Exit Art Gallery as an ensemble member appearing in the film Confessions of the Face, and performance pieces The Canon Dialogues, and Brainwaves. She has also worked at The Ensemble Studio theater performing in short plays by Young Blood playwrights such as Shoe In, Magician Ben Versus the Wizard, and Mattie. But 4th Meal Productions is where she dedicates most of her creative energy writing, acting, and producing. The company has produced her plays Dorm Stories and The Box and is currently working on her webseries The Gifted Girls.

Liza Dickinson is a High Honors in Acting graduate from Oberlin College's theater department and a graduate of the British American Drama Academy's "Midsummer In Oxford – Shakespeare Intensive" program. New York Performance credits include the collaborative project Bound Shadow (Matthew Ozawa productions), Kafka's A Report to the Academy (Brooklyn Lyceum) and Sarah-Violet Bliss' Dorm Stories (4th Meal Productions.) She will also soon be seen in 4th Meal's new youtube series, Gifted Girls alongside her four co-founders. She has also acted in the Boston area, appearing in productions of Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Jewish Wife. While at Oberlin she acted in many productions, including Stop Kiss, A Bright Room Called Day, Top Girls, Dancing at Lughnasa and Suddenly Last Summer. She was also the recipient of the Catherin Reilly Scholarship and the James McLaughlin Memorial Prize for Theater Majors. Liza is extremely proud to be working alongside her fellow 4th Meal members.

Maggie Keenan-Bolger is a Detroit native and a graduate from Oberlin College where she earned her BA in Theater and Gender and Women's Studies. Maggie has performed in a number of shows in New York including BROADWAY: The Wizard of Oz (with Rosanne Barr) TOURING: The Will Rogers Follies and A Music Man. REGIONAL: Bound Shadow (Boy). Favorite roles at Oberlin include Dancing at Lughnasa (Rose), Tales from Ovid (Bacchus, Itys, Arachne), Songs for A New World (Woman 1), The Fantasticks (Huckelbee) and From the Inside, Out which she created and performed in. Maggie has been a member of SAG, AFTRA and Actor's Equity for over 10 years. 4th Meal presented a revised version of her play, From the Inside, Out in August 2008 at the New York International Fringe Festival.

Lizzie McAdam graduated from Oberlin College, 2006 with a BA in theater. She currently teaches 5th and 6th grade at P.S. 184 in Brooklyn. While at Oberlin, Lizzie was the co-chair for both the Oberlin Student Theater Association and the Oberlin Musical Theater Association. She was also an active member of the SPACE committee, which worked to find performance spaces for student-run productions. Lizzie ran publicity for West Side Story, The Crane Wife and Streamers. She also coordinated the 24 Hour Theater Event sponsored by OSTA in 2005. Favorite Oberlin credits include: Tales from Ovid (Philomela, Semele, Lirope, Chorus, female Tiresias) dir. Matthew Ozawa, and Elephants (Karen) dir. Sarah Violet Bliss. NY credits: Bound Shadow (Matthew Ozawa Productions) as the Mother, Woman in the Moon and Corinthian Maid and From the Inside, Out.

Marielle Solan is an actress and photographer who graduated from Oberlin College in 2006. She has worked in the Production Management office of the Manhattan Theatre Club and as a Production Assistant for Disney's The Little Mermaid on Broadway. Her NY acting credits include: Tales from the Wind and the Sun (Metropolitan Playhouse), Bound Shadow and The Gifted Girls, which she also edits. Her Oberlin acting credits include: Romeo and Juliet (Nurse), A Bright Room Called Day (Die Alte), Top Girls (Angie/Dull Ghret), and Tales from Ovid (Myrha). Her photography can be found at mariellesolan.com.