Suzie Miller

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Suzie Miller is an Australian-British playwright, librettist and screenwriter. In 2022, Miller is scheduled to make her West End London debut with the production of her play Prima Facie produced by Empire Street Productions and directed by Justin Martin.

Overview[]

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Miller won the Australian Writers' Guild and Kit Denton Fellowship for Writing with Courage in 2008. She is a graduate of the Playwrights Studio at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Arts (2000), has a master's degree in Theatre & Film, and a master's degree in Law.^{[citation needed]}

Born in Melbourne Australia, she now resides between London UK and Sydney Australia. Miller has been produced around the world winning multiple prestigious awards. Her most recent play Prima Facie (premiered 2019, Griffin Theatre) won the 2020 Australian Writers' Guild Award for Drama; the 2020 David Williamson Award for Outstanding Theatre Writing; and the 2020 prestigious Major Australian Writers' Guild Award across all categories of theatre, film and television. Its premier production earned 5-star reviews across all platforms.^{[citation needed]}

Suzie has a background in law and science, and is currently developing major theatre, film and television projects across the UK, USA and Australia. Suzie worked as a human rights lawyer and a children's rights lawyer before leaving the law and moving to London in 2010 with her young family to pursue a theatre writing career full time and she now resides between both London and Sydney.^{[citation needed]}

Miller works in theatre, film and television. She is married and has two children.^{[citation needed]}

Her work ranges from large scale plays to intimate plays (Griffin Theatre, Sydney Theatre company Malthouse Theatre Company), to films of original screenplays (with Participant Media LA; Bunya Productions Aus; Hoodlum Productions Aus.) to television work (Film Art Media; Matchbox Productions/NBC; Bunya Productions).^{[citation needed]}

Miller has held several residencies, including: University of Queensland (Creative Fellow 2018), Currency Press (2018 and 2019), National Theatre of Scotland (2014), National Theatre Studio in London (2011 and 2009), Griffin Theatre Sydney (2012), Critical Stages NSW (2013), Theatre Gargantua Toronto (2013), and was the Artist in Resident at La Boite Theatre (2016 and 2015). She was attached to Ex Machina in Quebec with Robert Lepage (2012) and has been commissioned by companies in Australia, England, Scotland, Ireland and Canada.^{[citation needed]}

In 2006 and 2009 she was mentored by US playwright Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf).^[2]

Early works[]

Miller's first play, Cross Sections, was based on contemporary stories from the experience of working as a lawyer for homeless youth in Sydney's red-light district (Kings Cross), was nominated for major awards and transferred to the Sydney Opera House in 2005. A radio version of the play was recorded at ABC Radio and won the Australian Writers' Guild award for Radio. Both versions were directed by Chris Mead.^{[citation needed]}

Her two follow-up plays, SOLD, directed by John Sheedy and, All the Blood and All the Water, directed by John Sheedy, both won the Inscription award. SOLD was later produced at Theatre 503 in London (2011) directed by Natalie Ibu.^{[citation needed]}

An early work Reasonable Doubt played at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2008 produced and directed by Guy Masterson, starring Australian actors Peter Phelps (Stingers) and Emma Jackson. It was later presented at New York Fringe Festival at the Cherry Lane Theatre directed by Lee Lewis, where it won the NY FRINGE Overall Excellence Award for Outstanding Playwriting.^{[citation needed]}

Prima Facie[]

In April 2022, her play Prima Facie is scheduled to open on London's West End at the Harold Pinter Theatre starring Jodie Comer, directed by Justin Martin, and produced by Empire Street Productions.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]}

Prima Facie was performed in Sydney in 2021 and toured Australia at the Queensland Theatre.^[12][13][14] The play won the 2020 Australian Writers' Guild Award for Drama; the 2020 David Williamson Award for Outstanding Theatre Writing; and the 2020 prestigious Major Australian Writers' Guild Award across all categories of theatre, film and television. It won the Griffin Award in 2018.^{[citation needed]}

Awards[]

Miller has won or been shortlisted for a number of Australian Writers' Guild Awards, and Premier's awards:^{[citation needed]}

• Won the 2020 Australian Writers' Guild Award for Drama
• Won the 2020 David Williamson Award for Outstanding Theatre Writing
• Won the 2020 prestigious Major Australian Writers' Guild Award across all categories of theatre, film and television
• Won the 2019 University of Queensland Creative Fellowship
• Won the 2018 Griffin Theatre Award for playwriting
• Won the 2016 Western Australian Premier's Award for scriptwriting
• Won the 2008 National Kit Denton Fellowship for writing with courage
• Shortlisted for the 2010 Australian Writers Guild Award for drama
• Shortlisted for the Griffin Award 2009
• Won the 2006 and the 2009 Inscription awards
• Won a mentorship with Edward Albee in 2009
• Won 2008 New York Fringe Festival 'Overall Excellence Award for Outstanding Playwriting'
• Won the 2005 Theatrelab award

Miller has sat on the board of Playworks, Playwriting Australia, TRS, State of Play, Darlinghurst Theatre Company and the Australian Writers Guild Theatre She has been a judge for the Australian Writers Guild for film scripts, plays and the Kit Denton, and has sat on the Australia Council of the Arts Literature Board as a theatre peer. She is also on the reader panel for various theatre companies in Australia and London.^{[citation needed]}

She was the co-founder of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights.^{[citation needed]}

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