JOEY MERLO

Joey Merlo is a Brooklyn-based playwright, theater maker, and educator whose work blurs the boundaries between reality and fantasy, using camp, melodrama, and the surreal to explore gender, sexuality, and the instability of identity. His recent work includes the Obie Award-winning Off-Broadway production of On Set with Theda Bara, produced by Transport Group and named one of Vulture’s Best Plays of 2024, and Midnight Coleslaw’s Tales from Beyond The Closet!!!, which The New York Times called “the year’s most twisted psychosexual melodrama.” Merlo is a two-time New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellow and teaches at Playwrights Horizons Theater School at NYU, Tisch and CUNY Hunter College, where he co-produced We The People: A Forum on Working Class Artists in America. joeymerlo.com | @joejoemerlo

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This commission was made possible via the Joanna and Steven Sanders New Works Program.