QUALITY MEATS*
a theatre company
Quality Meats is a company founded by two directors who create their work in radical response to each other. Rooted in international collaboration, our repertory of work ranges from re-imagined classics to devised new pieces with an emphasis on ensemble creation and physical imagination. It celebrates the forceful collision of the stories and theatrical cultures of their diverse artists. Founded in 2005, the company is made up of a porous collective of theatre artists, cooks, wanderers, circus folk and flamenco dancers who have thus far come from Australia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Canada, Singapore and the U.S.
*(we used to be theatrewagon)
Born and raised on the north shore of Puerto Rico, Javier attended public schools and was a member of the Boy Scouts of America for ten years. At the University of Puerto Rico, he studied French, Postmodern Dance and Theater. Trained mostly as an actor and dancer, he developed a particular interest in the process of making theater through the use of the body and its relation to objects, paying special attention to the collision between stage imagery and words. While in college, Javier had the opportunity to meet and study with Argentinean director Rubén Pires and the Ecuadorian Group Malayerba, two of his major influences. Studying under Rosa Luisa Márquez, he worked as a teacher in several elementary schools and communities. At twenty-two he directed his first play, La edad de la ciruela, which had a significant impact on PR’s theater community due to the clandestine nature of the event. Only thirty-five people were allowed each night into the performance, which took place in a condemned theater where restoration had stopped for five years. At twenty-three Javier moved to NY to obtain his MFA in Directing. He is the author of four original plays and adaptations. email him at javier@qualitymeats.org
Born and raised in the island-city-state of Singapore, Meiyin attended an all-girls school for ten years. She fled the city to attend Yale University where she read Political Science and did theatre. She is currently associate producer of Under The Radar Festival at the Public Theater. New York – Sarah Kane’s Cleansed, the first full length production in New York; M4M (an adaptation of Measure for Measure); Rehearsal Vanya (site specific) ; Dead Letter Office (HERE Arts Center, chashama Trifecta Festival) Scratch/Medea (NY Fringe Festival 2008); A Lover’s Discourse; Mother Courage; Ivanov, Bullet for Unaccompanied Heart at the Theater of the Riverside Church, Theater Row, Barrow Group, among others. She has also worked at Classic Stage Company, INTAR, ART, Long Beach Opera. In Singapore – Postcards from Persephone (Best Director, Best Script finalist for National Life! Awards and voted favorite performer by inkpot.com; Betrayal (with Indian film legend Shabana Azmi at Singapore Repertory Theatre); Meiyin was featured in the national news as the top emerging female director to watch. She has assisted Robert Woodruff, Rinde Eckert, Eduardo Machado and Lisa Peterson. As a writer, Meiyin’s work has been produced and recognized by Hewlett Packard, Singapore Youth Festival and Singapore National Arts Council. Meiyin is an alumni of the Women’s Project Directors Lab and was the associate artist of Singapore Repertory Theatre and the founder of Livid Room, the first feminist theatre company in Singapore. Columbia M.F.A,.email her at meiyin@qualitymeats.org
MEIYIN WANG
co artistic director
JAVIERANTONIO GONZALEZ
co artistic director
