Susan Miller
Susan Miller is a two-time OBIE winner and Guggenheim Playwriting Fellow, whose play A Map Of Doubt And Rescue won the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize as well as the Pinter Prize in Drama. Her latest play, 20th Century Blues, premiered at Contemporary American Theatre Festival and ran Off Broadway in the 2017/18 Season, directed by Emily Mann. It is published in “Plays By Women from the Contemporary American Theater Festival” (Methuen/ Drama), and is licensed by Dramatists Play Service.
Miller is well known for her OBIE Award and Blackburn Prize winning solo play, My Left Breast, which premiered in Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival and has been performed across the U.S, Canada, and France. Other plays include: Average American, Nasty Rumors And Final Remarks, Flux, Cross Country, Confessions Of A Female Disorder, For Dear Life, It’s Our Town, Too, The Grand Design and Reading List. Miller’s plays have been done at The Public Theatre, Second Stage, Naked Angels, New York Stage & Film, The Mark Taper Forum, Theatre J, Trinity Rep, City Theatre of Miami, The “O’Neill,” Ojai Playwrights Conference, Invisible Theatre, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, among many others. Her magazine articles have appeared in "O, The Oprah Magazine, " "American Theatre," "The Dramatist," "Ms. Magazine," "Curve," and the upcoming "SDC Journal."
Miller was a Consulting Producer/Writer for Showtime’s The L Word and ABC’s Thirtysomething. She also won the first Writers Guild Of America Award in Original New Media for her Indie Web Series, Anyone But Me, (streaming on Hulu, Amazon) with over 70 million views worldwide.
Other Awards: Rockefeller Grant, 2 NEA's,
www.susanmillerplaywright.com
Susan (proudly!) served as Co-Director of the DG Fellows Program for 7 years.
She was on the Education Committee, and a Mentor for several emerging playwrights.
Her articles have appeared in THE DRAMATIST, as well as AMERICAN THEATRE.