a trans interdisciplinary artist experimenting with the fabric of theatrical meta to ask the existential questions of the human experience
Actor || Playwright || Director || Musician || Graphic Designer ||
Actor || Playwright || Director || Musician || Graphic Designer ||
Kayden J. Merritt
Kayden J. Merritt
Updates & Upcoming events
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On Nazareth Hassan
Check out my first blog post, a piece of commentary on the brilliant work of Nazareth Hassan
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Show Your Work Festival
JANUARY 23rd
A Winter CalArts Theater festival featuring a bunch of exciting new and revitalized work from emerging CalArts BFA Directors!
Come and let us SHOW OUR WORK! -
House of Fire @ Show Your Work
JANUARY 23rd
House of Fire’s production debut comes to Show Your Work Festival at CalArts!
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Mannie
JANUARY 30th & 31st
A New Gender-Queer retelling of Annie coming to life at CalArts. High Camp, High Comedy, High Annie.
Kayden J. Merritt as Miss Hannagin
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Out of Sight, Out of mind
FEBRUARY 6th & 7th F100A
A Public Domain Group production using the text of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth to explore identity and abuse in mental health treatment facilities
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A NUMBER
TBA
Spring 2026
A psychological thriller that blends scientific speculation with a portrait of the relationship between parent and child.
Inside
our world
The brain is so quick to categorize & compartmentalize that it leaves the modern homosapien emotionally distant from the experience of being alive. It hides what it cannot process in the depths of our subconscious and our bodies. A play is not an essay. The modern theater should strive not to replicate life, but to shake the audience to life in whatever way it can. It is the feeling of clarity in the storm, the truth so strong that for a split second you can feel your head above the water.
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