Susan Miller, two time OBIE winner and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship
in Playwriting, is perhaps best known as the author/performer of the
critically acclaimed one woman play, My Left Breast.
A
Map Of Doubt And Rescue, won the Susan Smith Blackburn
Prize and the 2004 Pinter Prize for Drama. It was also chosen for development
at the 2004 Ojai Playwrights Conference in a workshop starring Judith
Light. Map is published by University of Tampa
Press.
Miller won her first OBIE for Nasty Rumors And Final Remarks,
which was produced in New York by Joseph Papp at the Public Theatre,
as were her plays, For Dear Life and FLUX,
also produced by Second Stage. Her plays, Cross Country
and Confessions Of A Female Disorder were
staged by the Mark Taper Forum. Miller's other work includes Arts
And Leisure; It's Our Town, Too,
published in Best American Short Plays,; and The
Grand Design, a finalist for Actor’s Theatre of
Louisville’s Heideman Prize. The Grand Design
was performed by Lily Tomlin and Eric Stoltz in a benefit for Cure Autism
Now, directed by Robert Egan, and was done by Marsha Mason and Scott
Cohen for Brave New World. Most recently, it was produced in Winner's
Circle Moving Arts Theatre in Los Angeles as part of their 12th Annual
One Act Festival, February through March 2006. The Grand
Design has been published in Best American Short Plays
2003-2004.
Miller’s work has also been produced by Naked Angels, Trinity
Repertory Co., and The Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference, among
others.
Miller served for three years as the director of the Legacy Project,
a writing workshop for people with life threatening illness, which was
held at the Public Theatre under a grant from the Lila Wallace Fund.
She’s taught in the Dramatic Writing Program at NYU; The Writer's
Voice at the Westside Y; Rutgers; Penn State; and UCLA.
Her articles have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, American Theatre,
The Dramatist and Girlfriends.
As a screenwriter, Miller's work includes the original feature screenplays:
The Last Thing We Ever Do, for Disney; Blessing
In Disguise for Warner Bros.; The History
Of Us for Caravan; and Becoming The Smiths,
for Fox 2000, as well as the independent film, Lady Beware,
starring Diane Lane. She has also written for ABC's "Thirtysomething"
(Story Editor)" CBS's "Trials Of Rosie O'Neill"
(Story Supervisor); NBC's "LA Law,"
and FOX's "Urban Anxiety," (Producer/Head
Writer).
She was a Consulting Producer on the first season of the breakthrough,
hit SHOWTIME series, "The L Word."
Susan Miller is a member of the Dramatist Guild.
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