Susan Miller (playwright)
Susan Miller, (born 1944) 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 and a producer and writer for the web series Anyone But Me.
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[edit] Life
Miller served for three years as the director of the Legacy Project, a writing workshop for people with life threatening illness, with a grant from the Lila Wallace Fund. She has taught in the Dramatic Writing Program at New York University; The Writer's Voice at the Westside Y; Rutgers University; Penn State University 1969-73; and UCLA 1975-76[1] Her articles have appeared in O: The Oprah Magazine, American Theatre, The Dramatist and Girlfriends.
Miller has received playwriting fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as a Rockefeller Grant and a residency at Yaddo. Miller won her first Obie Award for Nasty Rumors And Final Remarks. A Map Of Doubt And Rescue, won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the 2004 Pinter Prize for Drama. She won a second Obie Award, as well as a shared Blackburn Prize, for her one woman play, My Left Breast.
[edit] Works
[edit] Plays
- Reading List, 2005
- The Grand Design, 2003
- Map Of Doubt And Rescue, 2002
- It's Our Town, Too, 2002
- Backstory, 1999
- My Left Breast, 1994
- For Dear Life, 1989
- Repairs, 1988
- Arts And Leisure, 1985
- FLUX, 1982
- Nasty Rumors And Final Remarks, 1979
- Cross Country, 1976
- Confessions Of A Female Disorder, 1974
- Denim Lecture, 1974
- Silverstein & Co, 1972
- Daddy, And A Commotion Of Zebras, 1970
- No One Is Exactly 23, 1968
[edit] Screenplays
- The Last Thing We Ever Do, for Disney;
- Blessing In Disguise for Warner Bros.;
- The History Of Us for Caravan;
- Becoming The Smiths, for Fox 2000,
- Lady Beware, starring Diane Lane.
[edit] Teleplays
- Thirtysomething (Story Editor)
- Trials Of Rosie O'Neill (Story Supervisor)
- LA Law
- Urban Anxiety (Producer/Head Writer)
- The L Word, (consulting producer/writer)
