About Me

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MARY MILLER PRODUCTIONS, LLC

specializes in compelling theatrical productions and storytelling shows.

Mary Miller has been described by Random House, Inc. as one of America’s “finest playwrights.”  Best known for her play Ferris Wheel, a finalist at the Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival it was published in the anthology Take Ten: New Ten-Minute Play. Since its publication, Ferris Wheel has been produced over 300 times, in 44 states, 17 countries, and translated into 7+ languages. It continues to be produced all over the world.  

On February 22, 2024, in New York City, NY, SOUNDS OF THE CITY MUSIC & Mario Sprouse in conjunction with Sharon Fallon Productions presented  an all star AEA 29-Hour Reading (featuring Lillias White* and Mary Testa*) of Mary Miller's play WITNESS.  A play that fractures how we look at race, class, and social justice.  In 2021 WITNESS received a New York Foundation for the Arts City Corp Grant.  It was presented as a staged reading in New York City by the Arts Ministry at the Historic Marble Collegiate Church on Oct. 28, 2021, after having been honored as a semifinalist in the 2020 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. 

Along with the recognition for WITNESS, Mary has won numerous national playwriting awards including: the New England Theatre Conference John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award for the Best Play of the Year with In the Kitchen: Thoughts on Love, Sex, and Aging, and the Dayton FutureFest Competition for both I Witness and Waiting for Oprah.  

I Witness won the Blackburn Award of Excellence and was produced at the Dayton Playhouse in Dayton, OH, before receiving its World Premiere at the Alice Arts Center in Oakland, CA.  In addition, it was named a finalist in the National League of American Pen Women Competition. 

Waiting for Oprah was a finalist in the Dayton FutureFest Competition and received both #1 Critic Choice and #1 Audience Favorite. Mia’s monologue from the play was subsequently published in Audition Monologues for Young Women: Contemporary Audition Pieces for Aspiring Actresses by Meriwether Publishing Ltd.

Her play Virgin Tears on Wyoming Avenue was a finalist at the Women at the Door Theatre Competition in Chicago, IL, and the Women Playwrights Initiative in Orland, FL.  It was a winner in the Theatre Conspiracy Playwriting Competition and called “brilliant” after it was presented at the Foulds Theatre in Fort Myers, FL. 

Light Burgers Waltzing Through the Garden with Joe premiered Off-Off Broadway with the Carousel Theatre Company in New York City, NY.  It won Best Actor & Best Supporting Actress awards at the Georgia Theatre Conference in Augusta, GA, and was a finalist in the New Play Competition in Denton, TX. In 2019 it was re-imagined as a One Act Play and produced by the Glynn Academy Theatre in Brunswick, GA.

A Matter of Grace was a finalist in the National Repertory Theatre Foundation Play Award in Los Angeles, CA, and developed as part of the Southeast Playwrights Project at Theatre Emory in Atlanta, GA. The play was also a finalist at the Women at the Door Theatre Competition in Chicago, IL. It went on to receive a Jane Chambers Award of Honorable Mention and was part of the Chicago Dramatists Play Reading Series and workshopped at the Raven Theatre in Chicago, IL.

Her short plays Next and At Three O’clock in the Morning were both finalists in the Samuel French One Act Play Festival in New York City, NY. 

In 2020, inspired by the coronavirus pandemic, Mary wrote Things I Learned in Isolation. In 2022, she first performed it at the Brunswick Actors Theatre as one of three-one act plays presented under the title: Death Defying One Acts by Mary Miller in Brunswick, GA.  There it was heralded as a “tour de force!” She went on to perform it again on April 18, 2023, as a special presentation for the Literary Guild of St. Simons Island, GA. On October 19, 2023, she premiered it in New York City Off-Broadway on Theatre Row with the United Solo Theatre where it won the BEST STORYTELLING SHOW for their Fall 2023 Festival.

Mary continues to write and perform.  Her plays are produced around the world.