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2024
SEPTEMBER: The Wild Tenant by Lucy Gough, directed by Lucy Gough and Angharad Lee, toured venues throughout Wales to critical acclaim
AUGUST: Tilly No-Body played at the Daejeon International Theatre Festival, South Korea to near sell-out audiences
JULY: A Body of Water by Lee Blessing, directed by James Warwick, played to critical acclaim at Shakespeare & Company
MAY: Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters was directed by Bella Merlin in a new translation/adaptation by Bella and Miles Anderson at the University of California, Riverside 


2023

DECEMBER 19 2023: Publication of Acting: The Basics 3rd Edition, Routledge

radically rewritten incorporating anti-racist, decolonial, feminist pedagogies, along with intimacy, mindfulness and tidbits of new insights into acting
https://www.routledge.com/Acting-The-Basics/Merlin/p/book/9781032212074 PREORDER FROM NOVEMBER 28 2023
 
JUNE 17-JULY 22rd 2023 The Contention: Henry VI, Part II) at Shakespeare & Company

JULY 2023: Publication of Stanislavsky and Pedagogy ed. Stefan Aquilina my chapter - "Framing Stanislavsky: Online Pedagogy in the Zoom Era'

2022
JUNE-AUGUST
Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare & Company
Tilly No-Body: Catastrophes of Love, revised at Shakespeare & Company


2021
OUT NOW! COLONELS, CADS AND CHARMERS by Miles Anderson with Bella Merlin
  • ­­­https://outskirtspress.com/colonelscadsandcharmers $26.96 / PDF $12.99
  • https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/colonels-cads-and-charmers-miles-anderson/1139561680?ean=9781977240194  $29.95
  • amazon.com: $29.99
  • amazon.co.uk: £22.95

JULY 22nd 2021 at 7pm PT: 20:20 Vision is a 70-minute hybrid theatrical-musical film created by UCR undergraduates and directed by Bella Merlin this spring, taking a look in the rearview mirror at the past year. It comprises 16 autobiographical monologues and 5 original songs (by Bella Merlin, arranged by David Roesner). And the diversity of voices share their unique experiences of life under lockdown, from uncertainty to hope, with a smattering of satire in the mix...
Trailer:
https://youtu.be/XlLbqCwqfuE