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Susan Miller

SUSAN MILLER

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency, NY  represented by Joyce Ketay

Susan Miller, Executive Producer/Writer of acclaimed web series Anyone But ME, 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 Actor's Theatre of 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 the Pinter Prize for Drama. Miller won her first OBIE for Nasty Rumors And Final Remarks, which was produced in New York by Joseph Papp at the Public Theatre, as were her plays, For Dear Life and Flux, also produced in New York by Second Stage. Her plays, Cross Country and Confessions Of A Female Disorder were staged by the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Miller's other work includes Arts And Leisure; It's Our Town, Too; the Grand Design; Reading List; and Sweeping the Nation. Her work has also been done by Naked Angels, New York Stage & Film, the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights' Conference, and the Ojai Playwrights Festival. Her articles have appeared in O, the Oprah Magazine, American Theatre, the Dramatist, 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 Bros., and her short film, "the Grand Design," was directed by and starred Eric Stoltz and Frances Conroy. Susan is one of Power Up's 2009 Ten Amazing Gay Women In Show Business.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Arts And Leisure         Average American         Back Story         Commotion Of Zebras, A         Confessions Of A Female Disorder         Cross Country         Daddy         Denim Lecture         Flux         For Dear Life         Grand Design, The         Human Affairs         It's Our Town, Too         Map Of Doubt And Rescue, A         My Left Breast         Nasty Rumors And Final Remarks         No One Is Exactly 23         Reading List         Repairs         Silverstein & Co

Arts And Leisure

Synopsis:
An English Professor and his grad student girlfriend take JD Salinger hostage in his own home in return for his unpublished manuscripts

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1st Produced:
Los Angeles - Cast Theatre     1985

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Genre:
Full Length Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Average American

Synopsis:
Average American takes place during the making of a potentially groundbreaking (fictional) television series. A serious comedy that intentionally focuses on the "writers' room" and explores the pressure of the creative process involved in launching a new TV show, made even riskier by the added responsibility of having to do justice to its particular subject matter: lesbians.

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Winner 2nd Prize 2014 Arch & Bruce Brown Playwriting Competition

1st Produced:
Stella Adler Studios. [reading] Los Angeles, CA     23 Feb 2016

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Genre:
Serious Comedy Lesbian, theme/character, full length

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Back Story

Synopsis:
A monologue delivered by a young Father to be to his unborn child

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by Joan Ackermann Courtney Baron Neena Beber Constance Congdon Jon Klein Shirley Lauro Craig Lucas Eduardo Machado Donald Margulies Jane Martin Susan Miller John Olive Tanya Palmer David Rambo Edwin Sanchez Adele Edling Shank Mayo Simon Val Smith

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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing, 2001   -

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Genre:
Monologue - Anthology from Humana Festival

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Commotion Of Zebras, A

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1st Produced:
Alice Theatre, NY     1970

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Genre:
one act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Confessions Of A Female Disorder

Confessions Of A Female Disorder
the non-linear journey of a woman who is wrestling with her sexuality, her work, a new awareness of other women, and her relationship with her husband. Moving laterally in time, her quest is often interrupted by someone or some event that she is not ready to deal with: i.e., during a college scene, her husband shows up in her dorm room. Ronnie, the central character, sometimes speaks to the audience as if she were footnoting. During her college years, Ronnie has an intimate and confusing relationship with another young woman, Coop. In their adult life, they consummate this sexually, although it opens a new set of choices.

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1st Produced:
Mark Taper Forum, New Theatre For Now, Los Angeles, Ca     1974

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1st Published:
in "Gay Plays", Avon, New York, 1979   978-0380427888

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Genre:
Drama, full length. - - Lesbian, full length

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Cross Country

Cross Country
Using inventive prose as dialogue, the journey of a couple, their other relationships, and turning 30.

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1st Produced:
Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, Ca     1976

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1st Published:
in "West Coast Plays", Berkley, California, 1978   -

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Genre:
Drama full length Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Daddy

Synopsis:
Daddy - an absurdist look at race.

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1st Produced:
Alice Theatre, NY     1970

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Genre:
one act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Denim Lecture

Synopsis:
Man( or woman) turning a certain age goes on tour and speaks of jeans as metaphor - a dark comedy

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1st Produced:
Mark Taper Forum, Lab Theatre, Los Angeles, Ca     1974

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Flux

Synopsis:
A teacher, a breakup, the romance and chaos of the classroom

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1st Produced:
Second Stage, NY     1982

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Genre:
Drama full length Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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For Dear Life

Synopsis:
Modern relationships

Notes:
Finalist Blackburn Prize

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Genre:
Drama full length Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Grand Design, The

Grand Design, The
A scientist tries to come up with a new message about humanity to be sent into space while his mother walks across the United States. A tender portrait of what it means to let go. . .

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1st Produced:
Town Hall (Brave New World) (New York, NY, United States)     2002

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1st Published:
Vintage Press - "Take Ten2", 2003
Playscripts, Inc - New York   978-1400032174

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Genre:
18-20 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 male, 1 female

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Human Affairs

Synopsis:
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part of Standing on Ceremony - the Gay Marriage Plays "A one night only staged reading benefitting the Human Rights Campaign

1st Produced:
El Portal Theatre - Los Angeles     2009

Organisations:
the Attic Theatre

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It's Our Town, Too

Synopsis:
In this homage to Wilder's classic play, Emily and Elizabeth fall in love in a small town, and then flash forward to the wedding of their son to their neighbors George and Louis' daughter. Homophobia, fear, and death still persist, but do not completely overcome in this witty and nostalgic exploration of love, loss, grief, commitment, and friendship as seen through the course of everyday life.

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1st Produced:
Fountainhead Theatre (Los Angeles, Ca, United States)     1992

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
25-30 min Play/Drama. - - Lesbian, one act

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  4 males, 4 females, 2 either (8-10 actors possible: 3-5 males, 4-5 females)

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Map Of Doubt And Rescue, A

Map Of Doubt And Rescue, A
the landscape of this play is a small town, Hollywood, the canvas of our history, and the struggle of those who try to make sense of it all as they endeavor to create and connect. the characters who inhabit and run throughout the territory of the play are part of one another's lives sometimes directly and sometimes in ways that are revealed as things unfold

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Susan Smith Blackburn Prize And it won the 2004 Pinter Review Prize for Drama

1st Produced:
New York Stage And Film - Workshop At Vassar     2002

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1st Published:
University of Tampa Press, 2004   978-1879852297

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Genre:
Drama full length Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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My Left Breast

Synopsis:
"I am a one-breasted, menopausal, Jewish, bisexual lesbian Mom, and I'm coming soon to a theatre near you!" A woman's humorous and moving encounters with relationships, parenthood, cancer, and her ever-changing self are charted in this searingly honest solo piece.

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Obie Award

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
60-70 min Play/Drama. - - Lesbian, full length

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  1 female

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Nasty Rumors And Final Remarks

Nasty Rumors And Final Remarks
A charismatic woman has a sudden cerebral hemmorhage. She talks to the audience while her friends and lovers gather in the hospital waiting room.

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Obie Award

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Facing Forward" published by Broadway Publishing, 1995
In anthology: Amazon All Stars: Thirteen Lesbian Plays, ed. Rosemary Keefe Curb. Applause. 2000   978-1557832207

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Genre:
Drama full length Play/Drama. - - Lesbian, full length

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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No One Is Exactly 23

Synopsis:
A tango of identity

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1st Produced:
University Park, Pennsylvania     1968

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1st Published:
in "Pyramid 1", Belmont, Massachusetts, 1968   -

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Genre:
One Act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Reading List

Synopsis:
What happens when a place where we once roamed freely for answers to our questions is under siege?Reading List encounters people who, despite our present social and political climate, come to this place and are moved and transformed.

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1st Produced:
Vital Theatre Company (New York, NY, United States)     2005

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
20 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  3 males, 3 females

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Repairs

Repairs
Repairs of the basement and the heart

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1st Produced:
New York     1988

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1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing, "Facing Forward", 1995   -

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Genre:
One Act

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Silverstein & Co

Synopsis:
On one part of the stage are the Silversteins: Dr. Ernie Silverstein who performs abortions in league with his renegade son Nelson; Ethel Silverstein, his wife who chairs commit-tees; Pam, their sixteen-year-old daughter who is having some sort of real or embellished nervous breakdown; Sandra. . - a friend of the family who is both Nelson's lover-and Pam's sexual guide. On another part of the stage are the Rabbis and members of Nelson Silverstein's congregation. Nelson, who was more or less banished from his home, now calls himself a rabbi/spiritual leader. the interaction between one part of the stage and the other is filled with ritual, myth, and union between brother and sister. When Pam begins acting strangely, her Father calls Nelson to come home. He does. Only to upset once again the balance of Ethel's home.

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1st Produced:
Penn State     1972

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Genre:
Drama, full length

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  5-7 people who are the "Chanters" in Synagogue.

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