Susan Miller
Play Productions and Publications

PINTER REVIEW PRIZE IN DRAMA - 2004
SUSAN SMITH BLACKBURN PRIZE - 2002

OJAI Playwrights Conference – workshop - 2004
New York Stage and Film at Vassar - worskhop - Summer, 2001

Publications: A Map of Doubt and Rescue - University of Tampa Press, 2004
  
The landscape of this play is a small town, Hollywood, the canvas of our history, and the struggle of those who try to make sense of it all as they endeavor to create and connect. The characters who inhabit and run throughout the territory of the play are part of one another’s lives sometimes directly and sometimes in ways that are revealed as things unfold.

OBIE award in Playwriting - 1994
SUSAN SMITH BLACKBURN PRIZE (shared) - 1994

Premiered at Actors' Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival, 1994.
    Performed by Author. Directed by Nela Wagman.

7 Stages Theatre - Atlanta, Georgia, "a new 3 character restaging" - February 2007
City Theatre of St. Louis – April, 2004
New Repertory Theatre - Boston - April, 2002
Theatre J - Washington, D.C. - April, 2001
Hampstead Theatre - London: Benefit for Breakthrough - October, 2000
Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati - May, 2000
Oak Street Theatre - Portland, Maine - 1998
Celebration Theatre - Los Angeles, California - 1998
Pennsylvania State University - 1998
Out North - Anchorage, Alaska - 1997
The Group Theatre - Seattle, Washington - 1997
Trinity Repertory Co. - Providence, Rhode Island - 1996
Walnut Street Theatre - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1996
Buddies In Bad Times Theatre - Toronto, Canada - 1996
Frontera Hyde Park Theatre - Austin, Texas - 1995
Watermark's Wordfire Festival at the Ohio Theatre - New York - 1995/96
Benefit for Gilda's Club - Skirball Cultural Center - Los Angeles - 1997
Naked Angels - New York - 1994
Premiere of French production - Le Foyer Theatre du Palais Royal -
     Paris, October 1998

Canadian Touring Company - Shameless Hussy Productions - ongoing

Publications:
O Solo Homo - Grove Press - Edited by Holly Hughes and David Roman, 1998
The Best American Short Plays 93/94 - Applause Books - Edited by Glenn Young
Plays From the Humana Festival 1994 - Smith and Kraus - Edited by Marisa Smith
The Breast. An Anthology - 1996. Global City Press - Editor: Susan Thames
L'AVANT-SCENE - Paris, December 1998

For books and performance rights: contact www.playscripts.com

“I am a one breasted, menopausal, bisexual lesbian mom -- and I am the topic of our times. I’m the hot issue. I’m the cover of Newsweek, the editorial in the paper. I’m a best seller. And I am coming soon to a theatre near you!”

REPAIRS

Home For Contemporary Theatre And Art - New York

Publications: Facing Forward - Broadway Play Publishing.
    Edited by Leah Frank

Repairs of the basement and the heart

OBIE Award for playwriting
The Joseph Papp Public Theatre - New York
The St. Nicholas Theatre - Chicago IL
Theatre On The Square - Indianapolis, IN
Finalist Susan Smith Blackburn Prize

Publications: Amazon All Stars - Applause Books.
    Edited by Rosemary Curb

“A serious social comedy” in which the friends, lovers, and son of a charismatic woman gather in a hospital waiting room, after she has suffered a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. Raleigh, 38, talks to the audience as she takes this journey toward her death. We see the dynamics of each relationship through their interactions with Raleigh and one another.

Second Stage - New York
The Public Theatre - New York
The American Repertory Co. - London
The Phoenix Repertory Co. - New York

A college instructor’s dilemma in the classroom and in her personal relationships. Caught between sentiment for the passion of previous decades and the present reality of her pragmatic, though bright students, Jess faces a crisis that puts everyone else to the test.

The Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference - Waterford, CT
The Mark Taper Forum - Los Angeles, CA

Publications: Gay Plays - Avon. Editor William Hoffman

Growing up female. A humorous, and emotional look at the rituals of initiation, sex, friendship, ambition. The main character, Ronnie, goes from puberty to marriage. Her sexual ambiguity is explored with a college roommate, Coop. Her adult experience with love comes through her marriage to David. In the background of these scenes is a chorus of Cheerleaders and Lettermen, who later become her suburban neighbors.

Cast Theatre - Los Angeles, California
Semifinalist Dramatists Guild/CBS New Play Contest
American Theatre Association's National Conference
    - Reading presented by Joseph Papp

A contemporary comedy which explores the creation and destruction of modern heroes. An English professor and his graduate film student girlfriend invade the privacy of the famed, reclusive J.D Salinger and hold him hostage in return for all the unpublished manuscripts he has written over the years.

A COMMOTION OF ZEBRAS

The Alice Theatre - New York City

An avant garde riff on women's relationships.

DADDY

The Alice Theatre - New York City

Racial role reversal in the context of the “family” unit.

Pennsylvania State University

Publications: Pyramid - Vol. I

A tango of identity

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer - Editor Eve Ensler    Random House Monologue - Conversations with My Son by Susan Miller

Women Writing Plays - Three Decades of The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize - Editor: Alexis Greene
    University of Texas Press

Ten Minute Plays for 3 or More Actors: The Best of 2002-2003 - Smith and Kraus

Humana Festival 2000 - Complete Plays -Editor: Michael Dixon, Amy Wegener,
    Smith and Kraus

Back Story – Anthology. Edited by Joan Ackerman - Dramatic Publishing, 2001

104 Scenes for 4 Actors (The Ultimate Scene Study Series, Vol. 4) – Edited by Wilma Marcus Chandler,     Smith and Kraus – May 2001

Even More Monologues by Women - Edited by Tori Haring-Smith - Heinemann, 2001

Monologues For Women By Women - Edited by Tori Haring-Smith - Heinemann

The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 1994 - Edited by Jocelyn A. Beard - Smith and Kraus

One On One - The Best Women's Monologues For the 90's - Edited by Jack Temchin, Applause Books