Merry Me runs 90 minutes with no intermission.
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Merry Me contains strobe effects, flashing lights, loud sounds and simulated sexual acts.
Off-Broadway: You Will Get Sick (Roundabout), Sandblasted (Vineyard), The Cake (MTC), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mobile Unit), Teenage Dick, Miss You Like Hell (The Public); The Treasurer, Bella: An American Tall Tale, A Life, Far from Heaven (Playwrights Horizons); Sex of the Baby (Access Theatre); Obama-ology (The Juilliard School). Regional: Airness (Humana); A Doll’s House (Huntington); Three Sisters (Playmaker’s Rep); Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Intimate Apparel (Dorset Theatre Festival); Fairfield (Cleveland Play House). TV: “A League of Their Own”,”Evil”,”Law & Order: Organized Crime”,“New Amsterdam,” “High Maintenance,” “Madam Secretary,” “Gotham.” BFA: Howard University. MFA: NYU Graduate Acting Program. marindaanderson.com
Theater: Catch As Catch Can, Log Cabin, Iow@ (Playwrights Horizons), Golden Shield (MTC), Tiny Beautiful Things (Long Wharf), The Great Immensity (The Civilians), Middletown (Vineyard), The Seagull, Antigone (NAATCO), Sugar House…(Ma-Yi), Making Tracks (2G), Sides: The Fear Is Real (Ma-Yi/MIYAGI).
TV/Film: The Sinner, The Flight Attendant, Thirteen Reasons Why, Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens, Billions, High Maintenance, The Good Fight, Bull, Blue Bloods, New Amsterdam, FBI, Kevin Can Wait, House of Cards, Elementary, Homeland, Love In Taipei, Mistress America, The Light of the Moon, Wolves, The Sunlit Night, A Kid Like Jake, Obvious Child, Children of Invention, Robot Stories, Lady In The Water. Proud community member of: AAPAC Steering Committee, MIYAGI, The Actors Center Workshop Company, E.S.T., The Civilians. Eddie and Walter – Be home soon.
Esco Jouléy is an actor, singer, dancer, clown, movement artist, and creator. Recent credits include Sundance STATE OF THE UNION, Starz BLINDSPOTTING, HBO’s HIGH MAINTENANCE, Netflix INVENTING ANNA, Hulu’s MONSTERLAND and Bravo’s IN A MAN’S WORLD, where they appeared as a movement coach. Esco’s theatre credits include: Twelfth Night, Wolf Play, As You Like It, Interstate, Runaways, Galatea, The Demise (Magic Theater Player), Beowulf. Esco was a resident actor at the historic Barter Theater for three and a half years and is an alum of the ABC Discovers Showcase.
Broadway: One Man Two Guvnors, Passing Strange. Off Broadway: Malvolio (Classical Theater of Harlem) Epiphany (Lincoln Center); Merry Wives, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors, Pericles (Public Theater/NYSF); Where We Stand (Women’s Project); Passage (Soho Rep); The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Signature Theater Company); Mankind (Playwrights Horizons); Gone Missing (City Center Encores!); The Glory of the World (BAM); Arden of Faversham (Red Bull Theater); Candida (Gingold Theatrical Group) Regional: Berkeley Rep, Repertory Theater of Saint Louis, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Barrington Stage Company, American Conservatory Theater, Dallas Theater Center, California Shakespeare Theater, among others. Film: Relay (upcoming), The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Medal of Victory, Bee Season. Other Credits: Member of Project Number One at Soho Rep 2020/21 Season and serves on the Acting Faculty at The Playwrights Horizons Theater School/NYU.
RYAN SPAHN (he/him). NYTW debut. Ryan can currently be seen on FX’s “American Horror Story: Delicate,” written by Halley Feiffer. Recent New York theater credits include Yilong Liu’s Good Enemy at the Audible Theatre and Talene Monahon’s Jane Anger at the New Ohio. Other notable productions: How To Load A Musket, Daniel’s Husband, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Mr. Toole, Summer & Smoke, Still at Risk, Exit Strategy, and Gloria, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Ryan has performed at some of the nation’s acclaimed theaters including: Goodman Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Berkshire Theatre Group, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Vineyard Playhouse, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. TV: “Succession”, “Modern Love”, “The Bite”, “The Blacklist,” and “Chicago P.D”. On film, he will appear in the upcoming feature Parachute, written and directed by Brittany Snow. As a filmmaker, Ryan co-wrote the feature comedy He’s Way More Famous Than You, as well as wrote and produced the films Grantham & Rose, Woven, Who We Were, Router, and The Other John. Streaming: “What’s Your Emergency,” directed by Michael Urie. His films have collectively played 20+ film festivals worldwide. Ryan received his BFA from Juilliard. IG: @ryanspahn
Nicole Villamil, Actor, Member of The Pack Company. Recent Credits: Wolf Play (MCC Theatre), Wolf Play (Soho Rep), How to load a Musket (59E59), Network (Broadway), Queens (LCT3), Lessons in Survival (Vineyard Theatre -Online Series), MUD (Boundless Theatre), Shakespeare’s R&J (Hangar Theatre), De Profundis (PlayMakers Rep), Tell me I’m not Crazy, The Rose Tattoo (Williamstown Theatre Festival) The Hunchback of Seville, The Love of the Nightingale (Trinity Repertory Co.); TELEVISION: New Amsterdam, The Last OG; [Edu] M.F.A., Brown/Trinity Repertory Co.; B.A., University of Pennsylvania. She is the 2023 Lucille Lortel Award Recipient for Outstanding Ensemble. @nicoleavillamil @the_pack_company
Shaunette is thrilled to be making her NYTW debut. Previous theater credits include La Race Page 73/Working Theatre (Off-Broadway), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Yale Rep), Cymbeline (Yale Rep), The House That Will Not Stand (Yale Rep). Shaunette was most recently seen in Disney/Luscasfilm’s “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.” Wilson will next be seen in Hulu’s continent-crossing limited series “Washington Black,” opposite Sterling K. Brown as well as the lead in Kahlil Joseph’s upcoming feature, “BLKNWS” for A24. She recently wrapped filming the indie, “Press Your Luck” opposite Paul Walter Houser. Following her first film appearance as a Dora Milaje in Marvel’s “Black Panther,” she was fan favorite ‘Dr. Mina Okofor’ on four seasons of FOX’s “The Resident”. Other TV credits include “Billions” and Hulu/Blumhouse’s “Into the Dark” anthology series. Wilson was honored at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival by Variety and Golden Globes with their ‘Breakthrough Award’. Shaunette is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and a recipient of the Princess Grace Award.
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As writer Merryn Johns puts it, “The moment a Black Sapphic angel introduces us to Lieutenant Shane Horne as “God’s gift to lady parts of all shapes, colors, and vintages,” Merry Me promises a wild ride centering on lesbian eros. And it delivers."