Asa Merritt

Asa Merritt (he/him) is a former journalist with credits at The Guardian, VICE, NPR, ESPN’s 30 for 30, and Sonoro, who brings a compassionate documentary eye to ambitious fictional projects.

For Audible, Asa wrote and created Six Sermons, an Audie-nominated and Best of Audible 2023 series starring Stephanie Hsu from Everything Everywhere All At Once. For that project, Asa spent a month embedded with a team of pastors at a Lutheran church in Cincinnati, OH. To research his one-woman play about mass movements, True Believer, Asa traveled to Cairo to meet with underground performers who helped ignite the Arab Spring. Other doc-forward audio fiction writing credits include The Champion, inspired by reporting Asa did for VICE in rural West Texas.

Asa executive produced Five Conversations Before Sleep, an official audio selection at Tribeca 2024. He serves on the Organizing Committee of the WGA Audio Alliance, and presents workshops about audio fiction to institutions such as Dramatists Guild, the North Carolina School for the Arts, and Resonate, in Virginia. While studying at the CUNY Newark School of Journalism, Asa studied audio reporting under Alex Goldmark, the Executive Producer of NPR’s Planet Money. Asa studied acting and dance at the Moscow Theater Arts School in Russia, and dramatic writing at Columbia University, where he studied in the same cohort as Greta Gerwig and Kate McKinnon. Asa lives with his family in Mexico City.