Merle Wheldon
Theatre
Director Credits
UPCOMING: CRANES by Demi Wilson-Smith
Ryan Calais Cameron Season at Broadway Theatre Catford
September - October 2026
TWO LITTLE PIGS by Caitlin McEwan, Pleasance Courtyard at Edinburgh Fringe 2026
FLUSH by April Hope Miller
Arcola Theatre, 6 May - 6 June 2026
WINNER Bitesize Award for Best Director & FINANCIAL TIMES TOP 9 OF 3,853 SHOWS
DA VINCI'S LAUNDRY by Keelan Kember, Main Stage Riverside Studios, September - October 2025
FLUSH by April Hope Miller
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Fringe 2025
WINNER Bitesize Award for Best Director & FINANCIAL TIMES TOP 9 OF 3,853 SHOWS
THE WATCH by Isabella Waldron, Vault Festival Inaugural Season at The Glitch, 28 May - 9 June 2025
NOMINATIONS:
Broadway World UK/West End Awards Best Director
Broadway World UK/West End Awards Best Production of a New Play
Broadway World UK/West End Awards Best Lighting Design
Fringe Theatre Awards for Best New Play
OFFIE Assessors' Choice
Showcase of Women's New Writing, Bush Theatre, April 2025, (DIRECTOR & PRODUCER/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 x, 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, by Somebody Jones 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/Associate 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
Teeth 'N' Smiles, Dir. Daniel Raggett, Duke of York's Theatre, 2026
Henry V, Dir. Tamara Harvey, RSC, 2026
Measure For Measure, Dir. Emily Burns, RSC, 2025
Red Pitch, Dir. Daniel Bailey, Soho Place Theatre, 2024
Nachtland, Dir. Patrick Marber, The Young Vic, 2024
Clyde's, Dir. Lynette Linton, Donmar Warehouse, 2024
August In England, Dir. 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
Other
Top 10% for JMK Award 2026
Finalist for Donmar Warehouse RAD 2025
Twice runner-up for Charlie Hartill Award
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
Education:
Chiswick Community School
Drama Scholar at Marylebone 6th Form
BA Drama at University of Manchester