Karyl Geld Miller

Karyl Geld Miller is an American Emmy Award-winning screenwriter. The 1973 shared Emmy award was for Best Writing in Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music for the TV special Lily, starring Lily Tomlin and featuring Richard Pryor. The script also nominated for the Best Written Variety Script award by the Writers Guild of America. "Lily" also won Best Writing by the The American Academy of Humor, and Rolling Stone Magazine gave the show its TV Show of the Year award. The writer was also Emmy nominated the previous year for the first Tomlin special.

Miller's sitcom writing and producing credits are extensive. See MillerReport.com Highlights include "The Cosby Show" where Miller was one of the staff of four who wrote the pilot and the first 13 shows of this enormous hit. She was writer-Supervising Producer of "My Sister Sam," starring Pam Dawber and the late Rebecca Schaeffer. She wrote episodes of the "Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Maude," "Erma Bombeck's Maggie," "Kate and Allie," "Tony Randall's Love Sidney," "Diff'rent Strokes, "Barney Miller," "Bob Newhart, "Cher," and many more. She co-wrote an episode of "Sanford & Son" with Richard Pryor.

PILOTS: In 2002 Miller wrote and was Executive Producer (showrunner)of the musical sitcom pilot "Life of Riley," starring Mickey Gilley, Mel Tillis, Irlene Mandrell, and newcomer Joey Riley.

Miller has written half-hour pilots for all the networks including "Millionaires!" for Norman Lear/CBS. She has written original pilots and performed re-writes and consultations for NBC Universal. She was a writer on the pilot and the sitcom series "Sherman Oaks" for Showtime and also directed all the B Roll and wrote all the B Roll monologues.

ANIMATION: For Universal Family TV, Miller consulted on several pilots including "Go Grrl," and "The New Woody Woodpecker." Miller was a writer on the Damon Wayan's animated series "Waynehead."

PUBLIC SPEAKING: Miller has been a keynote speaker at the Erma Bombeck Writer's Conference, and many others.

CARTOONING: Miller's political cartoons "Beyond the Palin," and "American Toon," have appeared in the Writers Guild "On the Line" newspaper, The Writers Guild "Written By" Magazine, Direct Weekly Ezine for Democrats, San Diego City Beat and on the web at MillerReport.blogspot.com Her comic strip "Plan B" and be found at GoComics.com/PlanB She is currently President of the Southern California Cartoonist Society, sccs-online.org the San Diego Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society.

External links

• Karyl Geld Miller at IMDb
• MTM Show