KAYDEN J. MERRITT
Kayden J. Merritt is a theater artist who’s work crosses between many disciplines within live performance, music, and visual art. Their work has been seen in CalArts Coffeehouse Theater with their direction of Tracy Letts’s BUG and in an assisting capacity with their work on Caryl Churchill’s Love & Information and Ilse Castro-Corona’s Volver. As an actor, they have performed at: The Walt Disney Modular Theater, The Connelly, The West-End Theatre, Tony Bennett Concert Hall, and Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. Musical Theater Performance Credits Include: Lockstock in Urinetown, The Beast in Beauty and The Beast, Tateh in Ragtime, Herr Shultz in Cabaret, and Samuel Byck in Assassins. Other Significant Credits: Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan, Big Love by Charles Mee, Our Town by Thornton Wilder, Netflix’s Brain Child.
Additionally, they have composition, playwriting, and directing experience participating in programs & internships with Broadway For All, Carl Hancock Rux with Lincoln Center, Mabou Mines, New York Theater Workshop, Fred Stuart at Theatrical Rights Worldwide, UCLA, New York Youth Symphony, and The New York Philharmonic.
EDUCATION
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BFA Acting
Digital Arts and Arts Education Minors
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Advanced Regents Diploma with Arts Distinction
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Studies Include: Aristotle’s “Poetics”, Three Act Structure, Playwright/Screenwriting, TV/Film/Play Analysis
Dramatic Writing: Angie Bridget Jones
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New York Theater Workshop
MASS DELUSION COMPANY
Mass Delusion is a theater focused company honing in on the psychological & political. Mass Delusion works to capture the fervor missing from the contemporary scene in order to stretch the possibilities of the theatrical illusion.
Within Mass Delusion is the Public Domain Group, which is a project that challenges the sterile & stagnant machine that confines contemporary theater from being a tool for social change.
Read more about the project at the link below.