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Jason Miller

JASON MILLER

  (1939 - 2001)
Nationality:    USA
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Graduated University of Scranton. Studied at Catholic University. Has worked as actor in films and on stage. Stage credits: Champlain and Cin-cinnati Shakespeare Festival; New York Shake-speare Festival, where he created the role of Rogozhin in Robert Montgomery's play, Subject to Fits. Most prominent film appearance was as Father Karras in the Exorcist. Television: played F. Scott Fitzgerald in ABC Theatre Dramatic Special entitled F. Scott Fitzgerald in Holly-wood. Recipient: antoinette Perry (Tony) Award, 1973, Best Play; Drama Critics Circle Award, 1972, Best Play; Drama Desk Award, 1972, Most Promising Playwright; Outer Circle Award, 1972, Best Play; Pulitzer Prize, 1973; Variety Poll, 1972.
Agent (in 1981): Earl Graham, Graham Agency, 317 West 45th St., New York, NY 10036 (212) 489-8288

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below is a list of Jason Miller's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Barrymore's Ghost         Blue Lake         Circus Lady, The         It's A Sin To Tell A Lie         Lou Gehrig Did Not Die Of Cancer         Nobody Hears A Broken Drum         Perfect Son, The         That Championship Season         Waltz In the Afternoon, A

Barrymore's Ghost

Synopsis:
Barrymoor's Ghost opens up the life of the legendary actor, John Barrymore, in a unique, theatrical manner. Mr. John Barrymore, or Jack Barrymore or Jake Barrymore, is presented as a ghost haunting an unknown theater which, at the moment, is in rehearsal for a play. the gods have sentenced Barrymore to this purgatorial existence as penance for his abandonment of the theater and the squandering of his talents in the pursuit of fame, greed, and dissipation. Barrymore disputes these assertions of the gods as he painfully and humorously examines the spectrum of his life. He chronicles his ascendancy to the throne as the finest classical actor of his generation; his arrival to the pinnacle of movie stardom; his intimate and compassionate relationships to his sister Ethel and his brother Lionel; and the explosive debacles of his four marriages.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1997   -

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Blue Lake

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Six Flags Theatre

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Circus Lady, The

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the "Circus Lady" of the title is a grossly fat, slatternly woman who has been reduced to living in squalor and on welfare, while beset with fears that the rapist-killer who has terrorized the area is coming for her next. Her son, fed up with their slovenly existence, is about to go off to join a government training program; the welfare investigator wants to move her to a furnished room and arrange for psychiatric treatment; and her sister refuses to take her into her own home. Ultimately she confesses to her son that his Father did not desert them as she had always claimed but, instead, had committed suicide-and for the same reasons that others are now abandoning her. In the end she is alone, resigned to her fate, and tragically aware that this is of her own inevitable making.

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New York    1970

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1972   -

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One Act

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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It's A Sin To Tell A Lie

Synopsis:
Two people, an old man and an old woman, meet in their doctor's waiting room. they begin a casual conversation, and he is soon revealed as a would-be poet and she as a dreamer who fancies that she has had much more in life than is actually the case. But, as they tell ever more outrageous fibs to each other, the deeper truth of their essential loneliness emerges-and in a very touching way they "find" each other, and the friendship and concern of another human being which they both need so desperately.

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New York    1970

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1972   -

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One Act

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Lou Gehrig Did Not Die Of Cancer

Synopsis:
Victor Spinelli, a frustrated athlete who now works for his domineering father, finds his greatest satisfaction in coaching a little league baseball team. He is given to bluster, but beneath this he is both sensitive and touchingly vulnerable. His relationship with his wife, who is preoccupied with acting in amateur theatre, is growing cool, but he finds a kindred spirit in the mother of one of his team members, an abandoned wife who comes by to ask that Victor show more concern for her bench-warmer son. She stays for a drink and gradually, as confidences are exchanged, we sense that out of the bitterness and failure that both have known a new and promising liaison is forming for them both.

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New York    1970

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1972   -

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Nobody Hears A Broken Drum

Synopsis:
During the Civil War, when capitalists exploited their labor, especially in the coal mines of Pennsylvania, there was one colony of irascible Irish who joined with union organizers, and then went on a tear when a mine collapsed and killed half a dozen compatriots. the leader called a strike, and the owner accepted the terms-provided the leader would give himself up as the killer of a company man during one of the riots. This encounter was the basis of the formation of the notorious Molly McGuires, and from here to the end, it is a headlong lunge through history, as men fight for bread and clothing, and authority fights for law and order. In the end, the leader readies hmself for the gallows with another tankard and another song.

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New York    1970

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Samuel French, NY, 1970   -

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Male:  18            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Perfect Son, The

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Contained in: "thee One Act Plays by Jason Miller" published by Dramatists Play Service 1973   -

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That Championship Season

That Championship Season
Following their annual custom, five men-a high-school basketball coach, now retired, and four members of the team that he guided to the state championship twenty years earlier-meet for a reunion. the occasion begins in a light-hearted mood but gradually, as the pathos and desperation of their present lives are exposed and illuminated, the play takes on a rich power of rare dimension. One former player is now the inept mayor of the town-and facing a strong challenge for re-election. Another, the frustrated principal of the local high school, is his ambitious campaign manager. A third, now a successful (and destructive) businessman, is wavering in his financial support of the mayor. While the fourth is a witty, but despairing alcoholic. As the evening progresses all that these men were-and have become-is revealed and examined with biting humor and saving compassion. In the end self-preservation, abetted by the unconscious cynicism and bigotry of their coach, draws them together. But they are lost, morally bankrupt men holding onto fraudulent dreams that have poisoned their present lives and robbed them of the future that was once so rich in promise.

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award, And the New York Drama Critics Circle Award As best play of the season

1st Produced:
Booth theatre
222 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036    1972

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Athenaeum, New York, 1972   -

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Waltz In the Afternoon, A

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Dallas Theater Center, TX, USA >>>    1960-1961 Season

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