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Susan Miller is an OBIE award winning playwright and Guggenheim Fellow whose work includes the critically acclaimed one-woman play, My Left Breast (Obie), which premiered in Louisville’s Humana Festival and has been performed across the U.S, Canada, and France. Her play A Map of Doubt And Rescue won The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize; and she received an OBIE for Nasty Rumors And Final Remarks. Other plays: Sweeping The Nation,  For Dear Life,  Flux, Confessions of A Female Disorder, It’s Our Town, Too, and Reading List.  She’s been produced at The Public Theatre, Second Stage, Naked Angels, NYStage & Film, and The Mark Taper Forum, among others.  

Her articles have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, American Theatre, The Dramatist, Girlfriends, The Bark, and  MS.

Miller was a Consulting Producer/writer on the first season of The L Word as well as a Story Editor on ABC’s landmark series, “Thirtysomething.”  She’s written original screenplays for Disney, Universal, Warner Brothers, and her short film, The Grand Design, was directed by and starred Eric Stoltz and Frances Conroy.

She is currently Executive Producing and writing, along with Tina CesaWard, the hit dramatic web series, Anyone But Me, (www.AnyoneButMeSeries.com) which airs on Hulu.com and Blip.tv with fans in France, Brazil, Germany, Australia, Greece, Argentina, and the U.K.   click here to read more

Susan lives in New York City with her partner and their dog, Henree.  Her son is also a writer, living and working in L.A.



 

Auto-StraddleJuly 2009 - Auto-Straddle article:
So Much Drama! – Top Ten Lesbionic Theatrical Experiences, includes one of Susan Miller's plays, “Confessions of a Female Disorder” (click to read more)


Susan Miller

Susan Miller


A Book by Susan Miller
A Map of Doubt and Rescue

A Map Of Doubt And Rescue
On the dust jacket: Charlotte Saloman, "Life? or Theatre?" from the Collection of Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam.

order online at amazon.com
or
order from University of Tampa Press


HIGHLIGHTS

December 8, 2008: The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis - Susan Miller joined Brown Bag Artist Series with a discussion about Writing for Television.

A reading of Susan's play A Map of Doubt and Rescue was part of The Ruth Easton New Play Series.


November 2008 - Readings from The Best American Short Plays, 2004 - 2005
including Susan Miller's play Reading List at the Drama Book Shop, NYC


October 2008 - Susan Miller did three performances of her play My Left Breast as a benefit for the Vital Theatre Company.

Listen to a NYTHEATRECAST podcast of Susan Miller and Vital Theatre's artistic director Steve Sunderlin conversation about theatre: click here to listen

My Left Breast - performances

Eric Stoltz is filming "The Grand Design" written by Susan Miller from her play, starring Eric Stoltz and Frances Conroy (Six Feet Under).
In Post Production. Release date: 2008

Eric Stoltz directing Frances Conroy

Eric Stoltz, Susan Miller and Frances Conroy
 

Sweeping the Nation


Photography: Bruce Botnick

WINTER BENEFIT PREFORMANCE

Ojai Playwrights Conference presents THE BUSINESS

Allison Janney, Neil Patrick Harris and Richard Jenik in a scene from
Susan Miller's A Map of Doubt and Rescue



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