As a professional actor, Merri studied acting with Stanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in NYC and at his home on the island of Bequia, West Indies. She was a founding member the Edge Theater with fellow North Carolina School of the Arts classmates Peter Hedges, Mary-Louise Parker and Joe Mantello, and acted in more than a dozen new plays with the company. She appeared Off-Broadway in Tony 'n Tina's Wedding, has been seen in the films He Said, She Said; Man of the Year; This is Not a Film, and The Thing Called Love. She has guest starred on TV in Murphy Brown; Love and War; Judging Amy, and E.R. Merri is a proud member of the Writers Guild of America, Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, and a member of the once glorious, and now defunct, Circle Rep Lab. Merri is also an accomplished playwright.