Meropi Peponides (co-creator) is a theater maker, dramaturg, curator, podcast producer, writer, and co-founder of Radical Evolution. She served as a co-creative director of the 2026 and 2025 Under the Radar Festivals, and was producer and then co-director at Soho Rep from 2014 – 2023. She has been co-creating and producing theatre for 20 years with a focus on devised ensemble work, new plays, site-specific work and community-based performance. Her work explores cross-cultural affinity and seeks to disrupt cultural hierarchies by drawing inspiration from BIPOC and nonwestern traditions. Upcoming with Radical Evolution: Hunger (working title, commission from Soho Rep), and season two of Performing the Revolution. Select fellowships/Speaking Engagements: UTNT Guest Respondent 2026, Socialism 2024 Conference, 2024 Sobremesa with A Todo Dar productions. Other organizations with which she has collaborated include Pig Iron, The Foundry Theatre, and The Movement Theatre Company. BA, UCLA. MFA, Columbia University (Dean’s fellow).