Merle Wheldon

Theatre Director

Credits

Assistant Directing:
A View From The Bridge, Theatre Royal Haymarket, West End, London 2024
Noises Off, Theatre Royal Haymarket, West End, London, 2023
Noises Off 8 month UK Tour, Bath Theatre Royal/Birmingham Rep, 2023/24

Artistic Director:
Bomb Factory Theatre, Women led new-writing theatre company in partnership with Bomb Factory Art Foundation. Platforming women and non-binary writers, mentioned in The Telegraph, The Stage, and The Economist for contributions to the world of women’s new writing. 2019 - current.

Shadowing/Observing Directors:
Red Pitch, Directed by Daniel Bailey, Soho Place, West End, 2024
Nachtland, Directed by Patrick Marber, The Young Vic, 2024
August in England, Directed by Lynette Linton & Daniel Bailey, Bush Theatre, 2023
Clyde’s, Directed by Lynette Linton, Donmar Warehouse, 2023.

Drama Facilitator:
White City Youth Theatre, at Bush Theatre, leading workshops, and facilitating sessions with Senior group (11-18 years old)

Director:
The Things That Matter, R&D & rehearsed reading, Bush Theatre 2023, currently in development Carnivalesque, workshop & rehearsed reading, Wilton’s Music Hall, 2024
Do Crustaceans Feel Pain, Pleasance Theatre, 2024
Parent Trap, VAULTS Festival, 2024
In Spite of Ourselves, workshop, LAMDA, 2024 Here Is Good, Bush Theatre, 2023
How To Kill Foxes, Drayton Arms Theatre, 2023; 24 Hours, Canal Cafe Theatre, 2023
Chekhov's Dildo, The Hope Theatre, 2023
Summer Festival of New Writing, Bomb Factory Art Foundation, 2021
The It, National Theatre Connections, Bush Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith & The National Theatre, 2020
Mallets, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Dorchester Arts Theatre, 2019
Happy Girl, Camden Peoples' Theatre and Edinburgh Fringe 2016.

Film & TV:
Out of The Dust, Directed by Jim Loach NETFLIX, 2024
Brian & Margaret, Directed by Stephen Frears
Baby Cow Productions (Channel 4), 2024
The Salt Path, Dir: Marianne Elliott, Number 9 Films, 2023
One Life Directed by James Hawes, BBC/SEE-SAW, 2022
The Gold, Directed by Aneil Karia & Lawrence Gough
BBC, 2022
Luther, Directed byJamie Payne
NETFLIX, 2021
A Very British Scandal, Directed by Anne Sewitsky
BBC, 2020

Training / Other:
- Secondary Education: Chiswick Community School
- 6th Form: Drama Scholar at St Marylebone School
- University: 1st Class Honors, BA Drama University of Manchester
- Shortlisted for Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence as Best Director
- Shortlisted twice for BBC drama and comedy script submissions: 6 part TV series in 2020 ‘Filling The Void’ (later adapted for stage and produced at Bomb Factory Theatre) and 2023 stage play ‘The Things That Matter’ National Theatre workshops in Directing
- 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

Training

University of Manchester BA(Hons) DRAMA

Polly Findlay Directing Workshop, National Theatre

Rufus Norris Design Workshop, National Theatre

Kane Husbands Movement Workshop, National Theatre

Frantic Assembly Workshop

Complicité Workshop

1 week workshop: Donmar Warehouse: Staging all female production of Henry IV