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Mary Miller

MARY MILLER

  
Nationality:    USA
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For almost twenty years Mary Miller has been writing about the human condition. Author of the short play FERRIS WHEEL, Mary is recognized by Random House as one of America's "finest playwrights." She has won over a dozen national playwriting awards including the National Repertory Theatre Foundation, the Dayton FutureFest (twice) and honorable mention in the prestigious Jane Chamber Playwriting Award. She is best known for her play Ferris Wheel, which was a finalist at the Actors Theatre of Louisville and published in the anthology TAKE TEN: New 10-Minute Plays (Random House). Since its publication Ferris Wheel has been produced across the United States, in nine countries and translated into three languages. Born and raised in Atlanta, GA, Mary graduated with honors from Westminster High School. Upon graduation she received the BRANHAM AWARD for academic excEllence and was recently inducted into the WESTMINSTER HALL OF FAME for her career as a tennis player on the National Circuit. Mary received her B.A. at Hollins College in Roanoke, VA, after having studied at the University of London in London, England, and Davidson College in Davidson, NC. She gained her theatrical experience from years of work in New York City, first as an actress and then as a playwright. As an actress she appeared both on stage (Off-Off Broadway) as well as on television. She studied acting at HB Studios, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and with such renowned teachers as Warren Robertson, David Man, and the legendary Mira RostovA. For two years she worked on the daytime soap opera All My Children. Turning her hand to writing, Mary made her New York debut as a playwright with the production of LIGHT BURGERS WALTZING THROUGH the GARDEN WITH JOE. She went on to win the Dayton Playhouse FutureFest Award, first, with I WITNESS and again in 2006 with WAITING FOR OPRAH. Her play A MATTER OF GRACE was a winner in the National Repertory Theatre Foundation as well as recipient of honorable mention from the Jane Chamber Playwriting Award. With the publication of FERRIS WHEEL her work has gone on to receive international attention. After years in New York City, Mary moved to St. Simons Island off the coast of Georgia where she continued to write and see her work produced. On St. Simons Island, she became involved in radio and worked for WMOG hosting the "Open Mike" show, a live morning call-in program. From radio she moved into television working for WBSG-TV. there she wrote, produced, and served as anchor on the half-hour television series "Close-Up 21." Having garnered success as a playwright, she focused her attention on novels and has subsequently written UNFINISHED DREAMS and A MATTER OF GRACE. Mary is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Chicago Dramatists and Working Title Playwrights. She is also a member of the Island Players where she has acted in numerous productions and seen her "Evening of One Acts" produced in 2006. She lives on St. Simons Island and works for Sea Island as a Specialty Instructor for the Spa, developing and teaching a new program called Live Life Full which focuses on the connection that our mind plays in our health and well-being.

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

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         NEXT         At 3:00 O'Clock in the Morning         Ferris Wheel         I Witness         Light Burgers Waltzing Through the Garden with Joe         Matter of Grace, A         Mulberry Lane         Patterson's         Scenes From a Distance         Take Proper Care         Unfinished Dreams         Virgin Tears on Wyoming Avenue         Waiting For Oprah

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Synopsis:
While sitting in a doctor's office, waiting for a mammogram Claire, Joan, Barbara, and Anne learn more about their breasts, their lives, and the true meaning of support!

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Next is based on true-life Accounts.

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At 3:00 O'Clock in the Morning

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At 3:00 o'clock in the morning, defenses are down and tempers flare when a woman, who lives on the ground floor apartment finally confronts the woman living above her, who has been walking around for hours and hours in a circle over her head. At 3:00 O'clock In the Morning . . . what goes around, finally comes around.

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Ferris Wheel

Synopsis:
the unlikely love story of two lonely people who are forced to ride together on an old country Ferris wheel. She's afraid of heights. He's afraid to quit smoking. they are both afraid of each other.

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the characters can be Any Age As long As they Are close to the same Age. However, the play becomes more poignant if they Are A little older And rather Average looking.

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comedy Ten Min

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I Witness

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I Witness explores the divisions within an inner-city, African-American family when they are suddenly jolted from their numbing existence by a brutal murder. Jackson, frustrated with his job and his life, impulsively spends his wife Ruth's savings on a video camera and inadvertently records the brutal killing of an African-American man by the police. Trapped in the dilEmma of whether to sell the tape or not, the family must first face one another and re-evaluate their lives. In I Witness the camera ultimately turns back on the lives of this small African-American family and exposes their hidden secrets and lost dreams.

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Light Burgers Waltzing Through the Garden with Joe

Synopsis:
When an inexplicable ball of light begins to shine in Dillard County, GA., it sends the townspeople scurrying for answers. What is it? Where did it come from? What does it want? Some ignore it, others dismiss it, some swear it is a UFO waiting to land. But, during the course of one long night, five people, gathered together at the "Home of the Light Cafe", will have their questions answered . . . and the answers will change their lives forever. Light Burgers Waltzing Through the Garden with Joe is a poignant comedy which explores the mystery of what can happen when ordinary people experience something extraordinary.

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Genre:
full length Comedy

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Matter of Grace, A

Synopsis:
A Matter of Grace exposes the ugly side of the American economy: the downsizing, the greed, and the games we play with other people's lives. A modern day Faust, A Matter of Grace tells the story of Ann McKenzie, a struggling sales assistant at a cable TV network trapped between the life she thinks she wants, personified by her boss, Senior Vice President Advertising Sales, Joanne Lugano, and the life she fears the most, Joy, a homeless woman on the streets of Manhattan. the story begins with the abrupt downsizing of the offices of the Entertaining Movie Network, which sets into motion a bizarre series of events culminating in a bet between Joanne Lugano and Ann McKenzie. A bet that enables McKenzie to keep her job for the year; but entangles Joy in an unsuspecting game of life and death. Through the lives of these three women: Joanne Lugano, Ann McKenzie, and Joy, we watch as they gradually switch places, reversing roles, as their dialogue overlaps and their lives mirror one another in ways that blur the line between the rich and the poor.

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Mulberry Lane

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Do old dreams ever die? And if they don't, is it ever too late to act on them? these are the questions Clarice forces Bernice to answer one extraordinary day in August, while sitting on the back porch of an old folks home at 1235 Mulberry Lane

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Genre:
comedy 15 min One Act

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Patterson's

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In the parking lot outside an old-fashioned funeral parlor, two high school sweethearts find making amends may require giving the shirt off their backs.

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Scenes From a Distance

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by Mary MIller, Sean O'Donnel, David Ives, Joe Pintauro

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Jan Hus Playhouse, NY     2005

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Take Proper Care

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In 1955, in Atlanta, Georgia, the line dividing blacks and whites was clearly defined, unless you happened to be a ten year old white girl struggling to hold on to the only family you had left.

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Unfinished Dreams

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When Abigail invites the whole family to celebrate her sixtieth birthday in the house that Fred, her husband of 35 years, built, she finds it somewhat lacking . . . lacking paint, lacking plaster, lacking walls. But, as each member of the family arrives, they see a different house. As they struggle to bring the walls of the house up, their individual walls begin to come down, until at last, a house with no walls becomes a home. Unfinished Dreams is the perfect story for anyone who has ever built a house, worried about getting old, been single, been married, experienced sibling rivalry, delivered a baby . . . or spent the holidays with their relatives!

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Genre:
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Virgin Tears on Wyoming Avenue

Synopsis:
When Mattie summons her sister, Chandler, to come home because their oldest sister, Adele, has seen the statue of the Holy Virgin Mary crying real tears in their backyard, Chandler returns to Wyoming Avenue in Northern Pennsylvania to find more than a statue crying in the backyard. She returns to find that she must face the hopes, the dreams, the fears, and the failures she thought she'd left behind years ago when she abruptly left town moments before her father's funeral. Virgin Tears on Wyoming Avenue is a Dramatic/comedy that revolves around sibling rivalry, unrequited love and the Virgin Mary!

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Waiting For Oprah

Synopsis:
It's the last meeting of the First Tuesday Book Club (which meets on Thursday!) and Allison, Mia, Fran, Louise, and Janice are all anxiously awaiting the arrival of their celebrity guest. Janice is determined to make a good impression despite the fact she hasn't read the book. Louise is thrilled at the idea of being in the same room as Oprah. Allison, however, is not convinced that Oprah's arrival will do anything but disrupt the meeting. Mia, arriving late as usual, is simply delighted that she hasn't missed anything yet. And Fran is just waiting for a miracle to change the course of her entire life. As one hour rolls into the next, with no sign of their guest, the women jump from conclusion to conclusion as they speculate on: Why she is coming? What will she bring? Does this outfit make me look fat? But the question: Will Oprah come?. . .is ultimately not as important as why they are there and what they learn about themselves and what they mean to each other

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Genre:
full length Comedy/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

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