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SUSAN MILLER |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Abrams Artists Agency |
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.
Plays by Susan Miller
Arts And Leisure | ||
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles - Cast Theatre | 1985 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24236 | |||
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Genre: | Full Length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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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| An English Professor and his grad student girlfriend take JD Salinger hostage in his own home in return for his unpublished manuscripts | |||||
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Back Story | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24237 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue - Anthology from Humana Festival | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | 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 | |||||
Synopsis: | A monologue delivered by a young father to be to his unborn child | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Confessions Of A Female Disorder | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mark Taper Forum, New Theatre for Now, Los Angeles, CA | 1974 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Gay Plays", Avon, New York, 1979 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24238 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | 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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Cross Country | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, CA | 1976 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "West Coast Plays", Berkley, California, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24239 | |||
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Genre: | Drama full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Using inventive prose as dialogue, the journey of a couple, their other relationships, and turning 30. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Daddy, And A Commotion Of Zebras | ||
| 1st Produced: | Alice Theatre, NY | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24240 | |||
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Genre: | Bill of 1 Acts | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Daddy - an absurdist look at race. | |||||
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Denim Lecture | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mark Taper Forum, Lab Theatre, Los Angeles, CA | 1974 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24241 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Man( or woman) turning a certain age goes on tour and speaks of jeans as metaphor - a dark comedy | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Flux | ||
| 1st Produced: | Second Stage, NY | 1982 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24242 | |||
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Genre: | Drama full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A teacher, a breakup, the romance and chaos of the classroom | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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For Dear Life | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24243 | |||
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Genre: | Drama full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Finalist Blackburn Prize | |||||
Synopsis: | Modern relationships | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Grand Design, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Town Hall (Brave New World) (New York, NY, United States) | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Vintage Press - "Take Ten2", 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1400032174 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24244 | |||
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Genre: | 18-20 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 male, 1 female | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| 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. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Human Affairs | ||
| 1st Produced: | El Portal Theatre - Los Angeles | 2009 | ||||
Company: | The Attic Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102291 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Standing on Ceremony - The Gay Marriage Plays "A one night only staged reading benefitting the Human Rights Campaign | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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It's Our Town, Too | ||
| 1st Produced: | Fountainhead Theatre (Los Angeles, CA, United States) | 1992 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24245 | |||
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Genre: | 25-30 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 4 males, 4 females, 2 either (8-10 actors possible: 3-5 males, 4-5 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Map Of Doubt And Rescue, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York Stage and Film - workshop at Vassar | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | University of Tampa Press, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24246 | |||
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Genre: | Drama full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and it won the 2004 Pinter Review Prize for Drama | |||||
Synopsis: | 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 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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My Left Breast | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24247 | |||
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Genre: | 60-70 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 female | |||||
Notes: | Obie Award | |||||
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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Nasty Rumors And Final Remarks | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Facing Forward" published by Broadway Publishing, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1557832207 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24248 | |||
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Genre: | Drama full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Obie Award | |||||
| 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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No One Is Exactly 23 | ||
| 1st Produced: | University Park, Pennsylvania | 1968 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Pyramid 1", Belmont, Massachusetts, 1968 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24249 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A tango of identity | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Reading List | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vital Theatre Company (New York, NY, United States) | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #90855 | |||
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Genre: | 20 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 3 males, 3 females | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Repairs | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1988 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing, "Facing Forward", 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24250 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Repairs of the basement and the heart | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Silverstein & Co | ||
| 1st Produced: | Penn State | 1972 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24251 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 5-7 people who are the "Chanters" in Synagogue. | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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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