David Merry is founder and managing partner of Home Invasion Studios Inc. He has been Canada’s premiere comic magician and has travelled the globe making people laugh for the last thirty years. He has a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Comedy Magic Seminar and has been nominated at the Canadian Comedy Awards for “Best One Man Show” and “Best Variety Act.” He is a member of the Writers Guild of Canada and has written for Film & Television for over twenty years. He has written for the Canadian Comedy Awards, was a writer and host of Global TV’s sports trivia show “GAME ON” and “GET A GRIP ON GOLF” and was a cast member and writer on Super Channel’s hilarious “TOO MUCH INFORMATION.”

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When clients call looking for comedic content Dave calls upon his friends who are some of the funniest people in Canada to fulfil the contract. Dave along with his friends have collectively won 8 Canadian Comedy Awards, 6 Canadian Screen Awards, 6 Gemini Awards, 2 Daytime Emmy nominations and a Rose D'or nomination.

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In 2014 David became the creative director of True Gravity Productions and for their clients he produced, directed and wrote forty comedic training videos, three commercials and twenty-two comedy spoofs in their first two years.

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In 2016 David opened his own production company Home Invasion Studios, where he has written six new TV pilots and nine feature length films. He was the director and co-creator of the comedy golf travel revenge show “Off the Hozzle”. It was seen on CBS Sports in the US and around the world on Amazon. He completed the largest single order of any comedy show in Canadian TV History. "A Little Sketchy" shot 42 episodes in 2022.

 

His comedy movie “Switched at Death” was shot in March of 2023 after winning the feature screenplay award at the 2018 Canada International Film Festival. It then went on to win Best Comedy Film and Best First Time Director at the 2024 New York International Film Awards, the Rome International Movie Awards, the Madrid International Movie Awards and the Los Angeles Film Awards. It was a Finalist in the Melbourne and Sydney Lift Off Festivals and was an "Official Selection" in film festivals in Cannes, Berlin, London, Barcelona, Tokyo,  and Budapest.

 

His suspense thriller/horror script "The Cage" won the Best Screenplay award at the New York Tri-State International Film Festival and was a Finalist at the Sydney Lift Off Film Festival. It was optioned twice to American studios but because of Covid has still yet to be picked up and shot. His action movie “The Harvest” is under option with Triality Productions out of Paris.

 

He lives in Toronto with his wife Cathy, has three adult children, one granddaughter and spends half of his time half writing, directing and producing and the other hall golfing.