(Casting Director) is a top NYC Casting Director with Tara Rubin Casting. Office credits include Broadway and National Tour productions of Ain’t Too Proud, The Band’s Visit, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Aladdin, Jersey Boys, Miss Saigon, Dear Evan Hansen, SIX, School of Rock, King Kong, Indecent, Cats, Gigi, Dr. Zhivago, How to Succeed…, Promises, Promises, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Bullets Over Broadway, Mary Poppins, Mamma Mia!, Big Fish, A Little Night Music, Billy Elliot, Little Mermaid, Young Frankenstein, History Boys (US Casting), Spelling Bee, Spamalot and The Producers. They also cast for Dallas Theater Center, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Sundance Theater Lab, Yale Rep and Chicago Lyric Opera among others. Merri first made a name for herself at Liberman/Hirschfeld, then Liberman/Patton Casting, working on such shows as NewsRadio, The Larry Sanders Show and the Miramax feature film Playing By Heart, starring Sean Connery and Angelina Jolie. In 2000, Merri moved to Dreamworks Studios as the Casting Executive in charge
of TV Pilots and Series, including Spin City, and the critically acclaimed The Job, starring Denis Leary. She was then offered a position as the Director of Casting for Dramas and Movies at ABC Television, overseeing the casting of Alias, NYPD Blue, The Practice and the made for television movies Gilda Radner – It’s Always Something and The Music Man, starring Matthew Broderick and Kristin Chenoweth, to name just a few. She is the very proud CD of the critically acclaimed web series SUBMISSIONS ONLY and also boasts many TV & film projects, workshops and readings, including the new musical TREVOR, based on the Oscar winning short film.