Merrill Grant

Merrill Grant moved to the Bay Area in 2019 after over ten years in New York. New York credits include solo performances at Lincoln Center (Avery Fisher Hall), Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall), originating leads in new musicals at NYMP and Fringe Festivals as well as countless readings of new musicals. A favorite production was playing the lead in "The First Marilyn...Marilyn Miller" a fully staged biographic musical on the life of this star of the early 1900's. In addition to new musicals she also loved portraying Ivy Smith in Bernstein's "On the Town" with the Staten Island Philharmonic.

She performed in New York and on tour for several years with the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players as well as The New York Ziegfeld Society as both a singer and dancer. She studied at the Atlanta Ballet in Atlanta continued studying dance at college while majoring in opera performance and found her way to musical theatre.

Her cabaret act, "My Shirley Years" played the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and several NY venues. Most recently she wrote and filmed a new act in San Francisco with music director Peter Grunberg- "How I got to San Francisco- Plenty of Heart and Plenty of Hope". www.merrillgrant.com