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Suzie Miller | |
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 Suzie Miller | |
| Born | Melbourne, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian, British |
| Notable works | Prima Facie |
| Spouse | Robert Beech-Jones |
| Children | 2 [1] |
Suzie Miller is an Australian-British playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and lawyer. In April 2022, Miller made her West End debut with Prima Facie starring Jodie Comer. [2]
Miller was born in Melbourne, Australia. She studied immunology and microbiology at Monash University and received a law degree from the University of New South Wales. [3] She then worked as a human rights lawyer and children's rights advocate; she also studied playwriting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art and begun writing plays. [2] During this time, she met and later married Robert Beech-Jones, with whom she had two children. [2] In 2010, she moved to London with her family to pursue a theatre writing career full-time. [2] Miller now resides between London and Sydney. [3]
Miller's work ranges from large scale to intimate plays (Griffin Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre Company), to films of original screenplays to television work (Film Art Media, Matchbox Pictures/NBC). Much of her oeuvre explores themes of injustice through complex human stories.
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). It premiered at the Old Fitz Theatre before transferring to Sydney Opera House. A radio version of the play was recorded at ABC Radio and won the Australian Writers' Guild Award for radio.
Her two follow-up plays, Sold (a play about people selling their souls for materialism) and All the Blood and All the Water (tackling racism in Australia), both directed by John Sheedy, won the Inscription Award and a mentorship with Edward Albee. Sold was later produced at Theatre503 in London (2011) directed by Natalie Ibu.
An early work, Reasonable Doubt, played at the 2008 Edinburgh at the Assembly Rooms (Edinburgh) directed by Olivier Award winner Guy Masterson, and New York Fringe Festival at Cherry Lane Theatre, also in 2008, directed by Lee Lewis, where it won the New York Fringe Overall Excellence Award for Outstanding Playwriting.
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 Australian Writers’ Guild Award across all categories of theatre, film and television. Its premier production earned 5-star reviews across all platforms. [4]
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Miller has won or been shortlisted for a number of Australian Writers' Guild Awards and Premier's award (Queensland, Western Australia and New South Wales).
She received the 2005 Theatrelab Award and won the 2006 and the 2009 Inscription Award. She received the 2008 National Kit Denton Fellowship for writing with courage, [8] and the 2008 New York Fringe Festival. Overall, she received Excellence Awards for Outstanding Playwriting.
She was shortlisted for the Griffin Award 2009 and for the 2010 Australian Writers' Guild Award for drama. Miller has sat on the board of Playworks, Playwriting Australia, TRS, State of Play, Darlinghurst Theatre and the Australian Writers' Guild Theatre. She has been a judge for the Australian Writers' Guild for film scripts, plays and the Kit Denton Fellowship, and has sat on the Australia Council for the Arts literature board as a theatre peer. She is also on the reader panel for various theatre companies in Australia and London.
She won the 2023 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play for Prima Facie. Jodie Comer also won the Best actress award for her performance in the play's production at the Harold Pinter Theatre. [9] Prima Facie also won the 2020 Australian Writers' Guild's Major AWGIE Award and the 2020 David Williamson Award for outstanding Theatre Writing.
Miller has enjoyed many residencies throughout her career, in recent times these have included the University of Queensland (Creative Fellow 2018), Currency Press (2018 and 2019), National Theatre of Scotland (2014), National Theatre in London (2011 and 2009), Griffin Theatre Sydney (2012), Critical Stages NSW (2013), Theatre Gargantua Toronto (2013), and was the artist-in-residence 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. In 2006 and 2009 she was also mentored by US playwright Edward Albee.
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