Merritt Janson

MERRITT JANSON is a New York based actor working across theater television and film Devoted to developing new work Merritt has originated roles in Robert Woodruffs Notes From Underground and Autumn Sonata Yale Rep La Jolla Theatre for a New Audience Your Blues Aint Sweet Like Mine created by Ruben SantiagoHudson Two River Built with Robert OHara at 59E59 Jonathan Franzens House For Sale directed by Daniel Fish Duke Theater Transport Group Lloyd Suhs Great Wall Story Denver Center The Deception created by Dominique Serrand La Jolla and The Onion Cellar with Amanda Palmer and The Dresden Dolls at the American Repertory Theater An OffBroadway regular Merritt has specialized in classical roles with Theater for a New Audience Julius Caesar directed by Shana Cooper Sir Michael Boyds Tamburlaine the Great and Measure for Measure directed by Simon Godwin The Public Richard II wWNYC A Midsummer Nights Dream Red Bull Theater Coriolanus and Shakespeare Theatre DCs Othello Over five seasons with Shakespeare Company she played Miranda opposite Olympia Dukakis in The Tempest Viola in Twelfth Night Rosalind in As You Like It Titania in A Midsummer Nights Dream and Desdemona in Othello opposite John Douglas Thompson Other works include the title role in The Wilmas Eurydice directed by Blanka Zizka American Repertory Theaters Britannicus directed by Robert Woodruff Paradise Lost directed by Daniel Fish and HVSFs Mr Burns A PostElectric Play directed by Davis McCallum She can be found regularly onscreen most recently appearing on Law Order NBC Universal Dexter New Blood Showtime Elementary CBS Billions Showtime Quantico ABC and Madam Secretary CBS Merritt also plays music Her style and composition are rooted in early American blues and her primary instruments are fingerstyle guitar piano and tenor banjo She has used this skill in several productions most recently in TFANAs Measure for Measure Merritt holds an MFA in Acting from ARTMXAT at Harvard University