Plot

A classic & lyrical love-tale with a bitter-sweet twist, I Heard the Mermaids Singing is a short-film adaptation of a play written by legendary acting coach & casting director Michael Shurtleff who passed away January 28, 2007. I Heard the Mermaids Singing is an homage to him and his teachings which live on in our hearts & minds.—Victoria Charters

Sweetzer and Al meet by chance outside a party. Sweetzer is a free spirit who likes to dance, and Al is a loner, a winner, and a love-maker, but both of them have kept a core of purity in their lives by hanging onto their innocence. Together they go on a journey of exploring one another and a one true pure love!—Anonymous

A loner (Kenneth Johnson: The Shield, Saving Grace ) meets a woman (Victoria Charters) outside a party, forming a connection in an instant. A classic & lyrical love-tale with a bitter-sweet twist, I Heard the Mermaids Singing is a short-film adaptation (by Victoria Charters) of a play written by legendary acting coach & casting director Michael Shurtleff who passed away January 28, 2007. I Heard the Mermaids Singing is an homage to him and his teachings which live on in our hearts & minds.