Twenty-two of his plays have received some 160 stagings worldwide, including productions at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, at Playwrights Horizons and Circle Rep in NY, and in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Canada and Estonia. They have been filmed, published, anthologized, and won awards in London, New York and nationally. His new play The Nature of the Universe appeared on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre as a charity Benefit Gala, with a cast including Blythe Danner, Brian Dennehy and Patricia Randell. He has written four optioned screenplays, won a BMI Award for musical lyrics, and was commissioned to write the musical theatre piece Seven Deadly Sins, which was presented in Charlotte in 2005.

He has co-authored books on baseball, chess and sports; ten children’s books; and the program for the 1990 World Chess Championship. He is a published poet and writes frequently on film, theatre and music for a variety of well-known periodicals. He has directed numerous plays in New York, London and regionally, with casts including Christopher Walken, Raul Julia, Burgess Meredith, Holly Hunter, Ellen Barkin, Christopher Reeve and Ruby Dee. He directed Children Of the Sun, a world premiere by Pulitzer Prize-winner N. Scott Momaday, at the Kennedy Center in Washington.

Meir was Artistic Director of the American Repertory Company for its two acclaimed seasons in London, and was for several years Joseph Papp’s Production Associate at the New York Shakespeare Festival, where he coordinated new play development and directed several plays. He also served for many years as Vice-President of The Creative Coalition; and as the International Arts Coordinator for The Global Forum, he worked with Mikhail Gorbachev, Thor Heyerdahl, Robert Redford and the Dalai Lama.

A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and of Princeton University (as a University Scholar, and Class Poet), he is currently Artist-in-Residence at Fordham University, and teaches in New York at The William Esper Studio. He is also Director of a prize-winning sports web site.