Merle Wheldon
Theatre
Director Credits
FLUSH, WINNER Bitesize Award for Best Director & FINANCIAL TIMES TOP 9 OF 3,853 SHOWS, 30 July - 25 August, Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Fringe 2025
The Watch, Vault Festival Inaugural Season at The Glitch, 28 May - 9 June 2025 FTA Nomination for Best Play, OFFIE Assessors' Choice
Showcase of Women's New Writing, Bush Theatre, April 2025, (DIRECTOR & CURATOR)
Barking Mad, Rehearsed Reading, Pleasance Theatre, shortlisted for Charlie Hartill Award, 2025
Do Crustaceans Feel Pain, R&D, LAMDA & Pleasance Theatre, 2024
Carnivalesque, R&D, Wilton's Music Hall, 2024
The Things That Matter, Rehearsed Reading, Bush Theatre, 2023
In Spite of Ourselves, workshop, LAMDA 2023
Here Is Good, Showcase of New Writing, Bush Theatre, 2023
How to Kill Foxes, Drayton Arms Theatre, 2023
24 Hours, Canal Cafe Theatre, 2023
Chekhov's Dildo, The Hope Theatre, 2022
Filling The Void, Bomb Factory Theatre Summer Festival of New Writing, 2021
Note to my 18 Year Old Self, Bomb Factory Theatre Summer Festival of New Writing, 2021
Forever Isn't Always, Bomb Factory Theatre Summer Festival of New Writing, 2021
The It, National Theatre Connections, Lyric Hammersmith, 2020
Mallets, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and UK Tour, 2019
Mallets, University of Manchester, 2018
Assistant Director Credits
A View From The Bridge, Theatre Royal Haymarket, 2024
Noises Off, 8 Month UK Tour, Theatre Royal Bath & Birmingham Rep 2023/24
Noises Off, Theatre Royal Haymarket, 2023
Observing Directors
Measure For Measure, Emily Burns, RSC, 2025
Red Pitch, Daniel Bailey, Soho Place Theatre, 2024
Nachtland, Patrick Marber, The Young Vic, 2024
Clyde's, Lynette Linton, Donmar Warehouse, 2024
August In England, Lynette Linton & Daniel Bailey, Bush Theatre, 2023
Writing Credits
Tremendously Big & Stupendously Vast, in development
Things That Matter, workshop & rehearsed reading, Bush Theatre, 2023/24
Filling The Void, Bomb Factory Theatre, 2021
Wham, University of Manchester, 2019
Other
Winner 2025 John Fernald Award for Emerging Director
Winner Bitesize Award for Best Director
The Watch, nominated for Best New Writing (Play) Fringe Theatre Awards 2025/26
The Watch, Offies Assessors' Choice: Creation, Design and Performance
Shortlisted for Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence
Two time runner-up for Charlie Hartill Award
Finalist for Donmar Warehouse RAD
National Theatre Directing Workshop
NT Movement workshop
NT Set Design workshop
Frantic Assembly course
Complicité course
All female workshopped production of Henry IV @ Donmar Warehouse
5 years training at Esta Charkham’s Education in Stage and Theatre Arts