Keith Merrill

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Manager and Founder​

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"Artists empowering Artists. My model as a producer is this: I refuse to get richer than the artists and creatives working with me.

My love of connecting the right creatives, watching their relationships bloom and evolve into great Art - this is why I do what I do. 

My professional work has been an international mix of producing, directing, performing, and writing. These practical skills, 

fortified with an extensive knowledge and experience in almost every aspect of our industry, means Merrill Creative can offer a

highly personalised, impassioned and rare representation, affording clients a ‘one stop shop’ for advocacy, support & guidance."

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Trained at The Guildhall School and the Royal Academy of Music for post graduate studies. Most notably as an actor: Mordred in

Camelot three times with the likes of Robert Goulet and Debby Boone; The Crucible with Gareth Thomas; Tom Wingfield in The 

Glass Menagerie for Damien Cruden with Honor Blackman and in Alan Bennett’s Single Spies for Paul Kerryson at the Curve as well

as London, NYC, regional and Number 1 Tours. As Artistic Director of Noël and Company, NYC: commissioned by Lincoln Center for The Noël Coward Festival to create a show and direct another - Noël Coward: The Women of His World (writer and director) starring Dana Ivey, Alan Cox, Dee Hoty, Mary Ellen Ashley, and Cady Huffman and Star Quality (director) starring Bebe Neuwirth. The company changed to The Salon for its London transfer: Irrelevant at Seven Dials Playhouse starring Olivier nominee Debbie Chazen (writer/director); Entertaining Mr. Sloane (director) with Harriet Thorpe; Ghosts with Alan Cox at The Other Palace (adaptation/director) ; Nicky Silver’s world premiere of The Einstein Letter with Sara Kestelman at The Other Palace; Wormholes with Victoria Yeates, directed by Scott Le Crass at The Other Palace, and Affairs To Remember with Luke Baker at Pheasantry (writer/director).

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Further Noël and Company, NYC: The Vortex with Edward Hibbert/ Suzanne Bertish; (director)  Design For Living (director) ; The Mousetrap directed by Larry Fuller starring Carole Shelley and Jill Paice; The Cherry Orchard (director) with Suzanne Bertish; After the Dance (director) ; Liliom (director) with Erin Davie; Ghosts (director) with Michael Urie, (director)  and What Every Woman Knows with Carole Shelley. 

 

Further writing: Frankly Sinatra at The RSC Summerhouse in Stratford. Lorelei (the unfinished Novello operetta) starring Sharon D. Clarke, Amara Okereke, Trevor Dion Nicholas, Joaquin Pedro Valdes; liner notes for the new Julia McKenzie/ Maria Friedman recording of Anyone Can Whistle; Ionesco’s Rhinoceros (adaptation), and I Hate Frank Friggin’ Sinatra.