After completing a Master's degree in Latin American Studies (FU Berlin) and Dramaturgy (Theaterakademie Hamburg), Meike Schmitz was employed as a dramaturg at the Deutsches Theater Berlin from 2009. Since 2014, she has been working as a freelance dramaturg and director, including at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, DT Berlin and in various independent constellations in Germany and Switzerland.

She is part of the artistic direction of the inclusive theater collective FreiRaum and co-initiator of the venue Die Heitere Fahne in Bern, founded in 2013. With Theater FreiRaum, she has been regularly directing productions with professional actors and people with disabilities since 2016 and is also jointly responsible for production management in this context.

In 2015, Meike Schmitz and the FreiRaum collective received the Offstage Scholarship from the Canton of Bern. Her directorial work "Über Stock und Stein" was invited to the Wildwuchs Festival Basel in 2019.
Meike Schmitz will take over the production management for the guts company from 2022.