Merri Biechler received her MFA in playwriting from Ohio University.  Her plays include Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver (Finalist, Princess Grace Award; Winner, Jane Chambers Student Playwriting Award; Finalist, Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition; Participant, WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory; Readings in NYC, Atlanta, New Orleans, Jacksonville and throughout Ohio; recipient of over $40,000 in grants to develop the play as a teaching tool for medical students); Bombs, Babes and Bingo (Semi-finalist, P73 Playwriting Fellowship; Finalist, Clubbed Thumb Theater Biennial commission); Occupation (Finalist, Perishable Theatre’s International Women’s Playwriting Festival); Real Girls Can't Win! (Nominee, Stavis Playwriting Award); Dolley Madison and the Secret History Club (Kennedy Center/White House Historical Association commission); and The Bathtub Play (Winner, Jane Chambers Student Playwriting Award).  She worked at ABC Television for three years writing scripts and treatments for their Movie-of-the-Week division. 

Merri attended the Professional Actor Training Program at North Carolina School of the Arts, and studied acting with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse and at his private home on the island of Bequia, West Indies.  NY theater credits include:  Tony ‘n Tina’s Wedding (Off-Broadway), Pathological Venus (EST), and over a dozen original works with the Edge Theatre.  Her film and TV credits include:  He Said, She Said; The Thing Called Love; Trailerpark; E.R.; Judging Amy; and Murphy Brown.  Merri is a member of Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, Writers Guild of America, and the once glorious and now defunct Circle Rep Lab.