Troy David Merciertroy@troydavidmercier.com
Amherst
Actor/Director/
Producer
Troy David Mercier obtained his Bachelors Degree, Summa Cum Laude, with degrees in Theater and Honors from the University of Massachusetts Amherst 2006. His professional training includes physical theater work with Double Edge Theatre, SITI Company, Gardzienice Theatre of Poland, Serious Play Ensemble, and Admiration Theatre Ensemble. He has worked professionally as movement director on several regional projects in the New England Pioneer Valley, most recently "Ambush on T Street" with Court Dorsey, Al Miller, and John Sheldon, and "Voices In Conflict" with Keith Langsdale through New Century Theater.
His most recent performance credits include:
The Three Musketeers, PaintBox Theatre, Theatre 14, Northampton MA
A Number, Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre, Nothampton, MA;
Board of Review, Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre, Nothampton, MA;
Mother Goose, PaintBox Theatre, Theatre 14, Northampton MA, Eric Carle Museum, Amherst, MA;
Milosevic at the Hague, The Serious Play! Ensemble, (The JoakimInterFest) Kragujevac, Serbia;
Aladdin, PaintBox Theatre, The Shea Theater, Turners Falls, MA;
Tortoise and the Hare, PaintBox Theatre, The Shea Theater, Turners Falls, MA;
A Christmas Carol 08, 09 Deerfield Productions, Acadamy of Music, Northampton, MA;
The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Curtain Theater, Amherst, MA;
Aladdin, PaintBox Theatre, Theater 14, Northampton, MA;
Well by Lisa Kron, New Century Theatre, Theater 14, Northamption, MA;
Aesop's Fables, PaintBox Theatre, Paradise City Fairgrounds, Northampton, MA;
Little Red Riding Hood, PaintBox Theatre, Regent Theater, Arlington, MA;
The Gateway Theater Project, Chester Theatre Company, Gateway School, Huntington, MA;
Ephemera by Darren Harned, Samuel French Festival, New York;
Parang Sabil with Kinding Sindaw, Asian American Theater Festival, New York;
Oh Yes I Will! by Deb Margolin, KO Festival, Amherst, MA;
Helmet by Douglas Maxwell, Fringe Festival, New York;
The Three Musketeers, Double Edge Theater, Ashfield, MA.
My passion and strength is working to create original theatre pieces in collaboration with other artists. Physical theater training is the single most important aspect in my development as an artist in unlocking my creative potential and finding emotional depth. It is important to me to remember that if we don’t help each other, no one will; that we share the same human condition and are all destined to the same end; that along this shared journey, we have a responsibility to the human spirit to lift each other from the depths of fear and sorrow.
Thus through my work I wish to lift the human spirit, to remind the performer and the viewer that even in the depths of dark days there is beauty, magic, joy, and love, always love.
Past original productions include:
From the Attic, 08
The Shel Silverstein Project, 08
Wake of Dreams, 07
What's In Between, 06
