Meryl Murman
- Director
- Writer
Meryl Murman is an Arab American choreographer and filmmaker creating in Southern Louisiana since 2007. Currently based between New Orleans Louisiana and Thessaloniki Greece, her queer films and choreographies derived from experiments at the intersection of cinema and dance disrupt popular notions of spectacle, the body, virtuosity and gender. Her film le Pain was an official selection at international festivals receiving the Audience Choice award at East End Film Festival in London, and was presented at Anthology Film Archives NYC. She has taught kinesthetic cinema through a feminist/queer lens at Tulane University, CalState Long Beach, California Institute for the Arts, and her work has been presented in festivals in Turkey, Mexico, and throughout Europe and the US. Thematically she is engaged with moving bodies, particularly between borders and across binaries, and human rights in transitional spaces. In 2018 she received a fellowship through the US Embassy Kyiv, to create film with LGBTQ+ refugees from Donetsk, Ukraine and in 2021 a fellowship through the US Embassy Athens to create film and public art with refugees from the Middle East in Northern Greece. Her work has been supported by the Arab American National Museum, the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, the National Performance Network, and Meryl is the 2024 McKnight International Choreography Fellow. MFA CalArts, BFA NYU Tisch.