Lily Mercer

Lily Mercer is a multifaceted artist, having made her mark first as an actor, then as a director/producer, and finally embracing her secret love of writing. As an actor she has appeared in The Newsroom (2012), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Kidnapped (2006) and Cashmere Mafia (2008), to list a few. On the big screen she was in the film And Then Came Love (2007) alongside Vanessa Williams, and The Brave One (2007) alongside Jodie Foster. She also performed Off-Broadway and in regional theatre productions across the country, including "Crimes of the Heart" (AZ), "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" (CA), "Taming of the Shrew" (AZ), "The Desk Set" (PA), "The Heidi Chronicles" (FL), and the Lily Tomlin one woman show "Search for Signs of Intelligence in the Universe" (AZ). Passionate about new and original plays, Lily founded a small professional theater in Northern Arizona, Actors Repertory Theatre of Sedona (A.R.T.S.), with the mission of producing contemporary plays that celebrated th