Meryn Cadell is a Canadian singer, writer and performance artist. He currently teaches the writing of song lyrics and libretto in the Creative Writing Program at University of British Columbia. Cadell, a (female-to-male) transsexual, achieved prominence as a woman. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, Cadell released an independent cassette titled Mare-In Ka-Dell in 1988 while active as a performance artist in Toronto, Ontario's Queen Street West scene.