Susan Miller, (born 1944) two time OBIE winner and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Playwriting, is perhaps best known as the author/performer of the critically acclaimed one woman play, My Left Breast and a producer and writer for the web series Anyone But Me.
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Miller served for three years as the director of the Legacy Project, a writing workshop for people with life threatening illness, which was held at the Public Theatre under a grant from the Lila Wallace Fund. She has taught in the Dramatic Writing Program at New York University; The Writer's Voice at the Westside Y; Rutgers University; Penn State University 1969-73; and UCLA 1975-76.[1]
Her articles have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, American Theatre, The Dramatist and Girlfriends.
Miller has received playwriting fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as a Rockefeller Grant and a residency at Yaddo. Miller won her first Obie Award for Nasty Rumors And Final Remarks. A Map Of Doubt And Rescue, won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the 2004 Pinter Prize for Drama. She won a second Obie Award, as well as a shared Blackburn Prize, for her one woman play, My Left Breast.