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Kayden J. Merritt

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The Domestiques

Associate Director - Kayden Merritt
A modern adaptation of Jean Genet’s The Maids, The Domestiques follows Clay and Lonnie as they plot to kill the Southern senator’s wife that employs them.

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A Number || Documentary

Created by Violet Zueg
A exciting documentary covering the making of our exciting re-imagining of Caryl Churchill’s probing sci-fi thriller!
Made possible through the support of our Donors!

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Mind The Gap 2026 Showcase

Co-Director — Kayden J. Merritt
AUGUST 10th, 2026
Mind the Gap, NYTW’s intergenerational theatre program, connects young people and elders through the power of storytelling.

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The Unusual Suspects x Stage Raw Youth Journalism Fellowship 2026

In partnership with Stage Raw, The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company offers a distinguished fellowship program to prospective writers with a focus on theatre coverage and critique

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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.