Editing Stephin Merritt (section)

==Musical projects==
Merritt created and plays principal roles in the bands [[the Magnetic Fields]],<ref name="Merritt50"/> [[the 6ths]], [[the Gothic Archies]] and [[Future Bible Heroes]].<ref name="MyLife15"/>  He briefly used the name ''The Baudelaire Memorial Orchestra'' as an attribution for "Scream and Run Away", a song written for [[Lemony Snicket]]'s ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'', but further music was attributed to the Gothic Archies.<ref name="npr">[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6493324 Merritt, Snicket and the 'Tragic Treasury'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180429024712/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6493324 |date=April 29, 2018 }}, ''All Things Considered'' December 3, 2006</ref>

Between 1999 and 2005, he was one-third of the infrequent, live-only ensemble the Three Terrors, with ''[[69 Love Songs]]''{{'}}s [[Dudley Klute]] and [[LD Beghtol]]. These performances were themed around French pop music, movie themes (including the title song from ''[[Deep Throat (film)|Deep Throat]]''), intoxication, and New York City. [[Kenny Mellman]] (of [[Kiki & Herb]]), [[Jon DeRosa]] and others performed with the Three Terrors at these sporadic gala events.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Monday Set: The Three Terrors – New York City – 1/26/03 |url=https://www.thesoundofindie.com/2009/04/13/the-monday-set-the-three-terrors-new-york-city-12603/ |website=thesoundofindie.com |date=April 13, 2009 |access-date=November 12, 2021}}</ref>

Under his own name, he recorded and released the soundtracks to the films ''[[Eban and Charley]]'' (2000) and ''[[Pieces of April]]'' (2003). The soundtrack to the [[Nickelodeon]] show ''[[The Adventures of Pete & Pete]]'' featured many of his songs.

He and director [[Chen Shi-Zheng]] collaborated on three pieces of musical theatre: ''[[The Orphan of Zhao]]'' (2003), ''Peach Blossom Fan'' (2004) and ''My Life as a Fairy Tale'' (2005).<ref name="brantley">Brantley, Ben. [http://theater.nytimes.com/2005/07/29/theater/reviews/29tale.html Exploring the Shadows of a Sunny Writer's Nightmare] ''The New York Times''. July 29, 2005.</ref> Selected tracks from these works have been released on [[Nonesuch Records]] under the title ''[[Showtunes (Stephin Merritt and Chen Shi-zheng album)|Showtunes]]''.

Merritt wrote and sang "I'm in a Lonely Way" in a television commercial for [[Volvo]] that aired in the summer and fall of 2007. He also performed "The Wheels on the Car". He also penned the music and lyrics for a 2009 [[Off-Broadway]] [[stage musical]] adaptation of ''[[Coraline]]'', a novel by [[Neil Gaiman]]. In the [[MCC Theater]] production, his music was performed by a piano "orchestra" consisting of a traditional piano, a [[toy piano]] and a [[prepared piano]].<ref>{{cite web |title='Coraline' musical comes to life |url=https://variety.com/2009/legit/news/coraline-musical-comes-to-life-1118004113/#! |website=Variety |date=May 22, 2009 |access-date=November 12, 2021 |archive-date=November 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211112153914/https://variety.com/2009/legit/news/coraline-musical-comes-to-life-1118004113/#! |url-status=live }}</ref>

He produced a score for the silent film ''[[20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916 film)|20,000 Leagues Under the Sea]]'' that was performed at the [[Castro Theatre]], San Francisco on May 4, 2010, as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Khanna |first=Vish |title=Exclusive: Stephin Merritt Promises to Return to the Synth on Next Magnetic Fields Album, Scores 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |url=http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/generalarticlesynopsfullart.aspx?csid1=140&csid2=844&fid1=43998 |magazine=[[Exclaim!]] |date=January 28, 2010 |access-date=January 28, 2010 |archive-date=February 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100201052758/http://exclaim.ca/articles/generalarticlesynopsfullart.aspx?csid1=140&csid2=844&fid1=43998 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2014, he released his first book, ''101 Two-Letter Words''. It is a collection of brief poems, one inspired by each of the two-letter words legal in Scrabble.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt Releasing Scrabble Poetry Book |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/54293-the-magnetic-fields-stephin-merritt-releasing-scrabble-poetry-book/ |website=Pitchfork |date=March 10, 2014 |access-date=November 15, 2021 |archive-date=November 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115130432/https://pitchfork.com/news/54293-the-magnetic-fields-stephin-merritt-releasing-scrabble-poetry-book/ |url-status=live }}</ref>