Writer Kim Merrill is currently writing fiction after years of writing for theatre. Her plays have been produced by NJ Repertory, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Theater for the New City, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Manhattan Theatre Source, New Perspectives and other off-off-broadway venues. Workshops and readings at New Georges, Playing on Air, PlayLabs at Minneapolis Playwrights Center, Shee Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Geva Theatre, Cherry Lane, Women’s Project, LaMama Experiments, and HotCity Theatre Greenhouse Festival.
Her playwriting has received an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award (2009), EST/Sloan commission (2007), Pilgrim Project grant (2001), Playwrights First Award (1998) and publication by Dramatists Play Service. Merrill's prose writing has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation.
Merrill used her time at MacDowell to work on her first novel (and first prose piece), titled Red Girl Jumping (or it’s all in your head), which is a memoir about memory. It was longlisted for the First Pages Prize in 2022 and an excerpt was published in 2020 by Counterclock Journal Issue 8.
