Author: Michael Merriam

CaberABLE – I will be performing a 15 minute piece as part of an evening of wonderful cabaret. Saturday, November 5th, 2016 in the JSB TekBox at Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts. 528 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403.   Show starts at 7:30 pm. Event sponsored by Patrick’s Cabaret and VSA Minnesota. Word Brew:… Continue reading Things in the Works

Rehearsals! Every Day! We open in 8 days! Tech rehearsal is in 6 days. OMG! Bryant-Lake Bowl 810 W Lake St, Minneapolis, MN 55408 Visit the Show Page at the MN Fringe Website to Reserve Tickets! I will be giving five performances of my newest one-person show “Unsafe at Any Speed.” This show offers tales… Continue reading “Unsafe at Any Speed” Opening Next Week!

Coming this August to The Minnesota Fringe Festival – Unsafe at Any Speed From muscle car driver to blind public transit user, Michael Merriam shares funny and poignant personal stories of transition through our car culture, via a levitating Oldsmobile, a bus fire, and being buried alive. Photo by Sonya Leigott Honaker with slight alterations… Continue reading Unsafe at Any Speed – A First Post

All I want to do is work on my art: writing, storytelling, my fringe show, but our culture’s devaluation of art and unwillingness to pay artists a living wage forces us to chose, and that choice is: create art or eat and have a roof over your head. In the face of art consumers thinking… Continue reading Artist Choices

Tuesday June 21st – 8pm to 10pm Kieran’s Irish Pub 85 North 6th Street Minneapolis, MN 55403 Visit the Website I will be the featured storyteller at this speculative fiction open mic event. I will be telling a new piece I am writing just for this show. Ghost Trains! Hover Buses! Colliding Timelines! Details “Stories… Continue reading The Not-So Silent Planet

I was asked to put together a list of the various theater and spoken-word things I have going on this summer. It’s a pretty busy schedule for me, and I am pretty pleased. American Underground: Saturday, May 28th – 6pm to 8pm Clubhouse Jager, 923 Washington Avenue North Minneapolis, MN 55401 Visit the Facebook Event… Continue reading A Busy Summer for Me

Director Cassandra Snow posted a photo from rehearsal of the show I wrote and she is directing. I am super excited! To quote Cassandra: “Some lovely lady lovin between our protagonist Melissa Ballister (Valerie Borey) and Nurse Summers (Anna Lakin) in rehearsal for At The Edge of Flight.” Edited to Add: Cassandra tells me the… Continue reading Super Excited!

I’ve been sitting on this news for awhile, but now it is official. My script “At the Edge of Flight” is being produced by Gadfly Theatre Productions as part of the Final Frontier Theatre Festival: Heroes and Villains. I am super pleased. From the Gadfly Website: At the Edge of Flight by Michael Merriam Directed… Continue reading At The Edge Of Flight

I am pleased to announce the podcast publication of my YA SF/Horror piece “Twenty-One” at Cast of Wonders podcast. Pleased, I say! Cast of Wonders 204: Twenty-One

Being a working artists is like this: You’re standing there with one foot hanging out in the open air, hovering over a dark, terrifying void below. Your other foot is on a banana peel. And that banana peel is on a high wire. And that high wire is greased slick. And there is a gale… Continue reading Falling with Grace