Frank Merle is an American screenwriter, director and producer best known for ''
The Employer''
and ''
From Jennifer.'' Also a theatrical producer and director, Merle graduated from
The Theatre School at DePaul University
The Theatre School at DePaul University, previously the Goodman School of Drama (also known as TTS and GSD, respectively) is the drama school of DePaul University. Originally associated with the Goodman Theatre, its first class was conducted at ...
.
Film career
Merle co-founded Keyhole Theatre Company in the
Wicker Park neighborhood of
Chicago, IL
Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of Unite ...
. He served as artistic director of Keyhole Theatre Company for seven years until it closed.
He made the short films, ''What Joan Knows,'' ''Morgan's Last Call,'' ''Gnaw,'' ''Art Room,'' and ''Carnage on Graves Farm''. The latter three were released on home video in 2010 as ''Carnage, Chaos & Creeps.''
Merle's first feature film was the 2013 psychological thriller ''
The Employer''. It was a
Shriekfest official selection and Merle won Best director for the film at the Los Angeles Movie Awards.
In 2016,
Dread Central
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reported that Merle would write and direct ''
From Jennifer,'' the third installment in the ''
To Jennifer'' found-footage series originated by
James Cullen Bressack
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.
Filmography
* ''What Joan Knows'' (2007)
* ''Morgan's Last Call'' (2008)
* ''Gnaw'' (2008)
* ''Art Room'' (2009)
* ''Carnage on Graves Farm'' (2009)
* ''Carnage, Chaos & Creeps'' (2010)
* ''
The Employer'' (2013)
* ''2 Jennifer'' (2016)
roducer* ''
From Jennifer'' (2017)
* ''For Jennifer'' (2018)
roducer* ''The Gloom'' (2021)
irector/producer; podcast series* ''Tales From the Other Side'' (2022)
egment director/producer* ''Goodnight'' (2022)
irector/producer* ''Forgotten'' (2022)
roducer* ''Catfish Christmas'' (2022)
roducer* ''
All Gone Wrong'' (2023)
roducer* ''Blood Covered Chocolate'' (2023)
roducer* ''Driftwood'' (2023)
xecutive producer* ''Porcelain'' (2024)
roducer* ''A Hard Place'' (2025)
o-producer* ''Namaka'' (2025)
riter/director/producer
References
External links
Official website*
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Living people
Film directors from Maine
Film producers from Maine
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
American male screenwriters