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.