WITNESS
TWO FAMILIES TWO CITIES ONE STORY
WITNESS set in 1991 tells the story of two different families (one White and one Black), living in two different cities (Detroit and Harlem) in a play that happens simultaneously on stage, fracturing how we look at race, class, and social justice today.
- AEA 29-Hour Reading, Open Jar Studios, New York City, NY
- New York Foundation for the Arts City Corp Grant Recipient
- Arts Ministry, Theatre Upstairs Marble Collegiate Church
New York City, NY
- Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference - Semifinalist
SPECIAL DEDICATION TO GORDON PARKS
"Without his encouragement, I never would have started this journey." Mary Miller
One-Person Show
"Things I Learned in Isolation" Winner: BEST STORYTELLING SHOW Presented by United Solo & Theatre Row NYC
An insightful comedy on life in isolation
during the coronavirus pandemic!
THINGS I LEARNED IN ISOLATION, direct from NYC Theatre Row Off-Broadway and winner of the BEST STORYTELLING SHOW in the United Solo Theatre Fall 2023 Festival is an insightful comedy about life in isolation during the coronavirus pandemic!
This one person show is a hilarious, heartfelt, and true account of Mary's experiences when she (along with the rest of the world) were put into isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic. During that time, no one knew how long it would last. How many people would get sick. Or how our lives would be affected. So, Mary decided to document what happened to her as a way to make sense of her feelings and connect with others by sharing it all on Facebook.
Written and performed by Mary Miller, it’s a 45-minute one-woman show, staged as a lecture, where the audience serve as guests to a very enthusiastic narrator!!
COMPLETE VIDEO AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
New York Premiere on Theatre Row Off-Broadway as part of United Solo Theatre Fall 2023 Festival
New York City, NY
One-Person Show Special Presentation
Hollins University Reunion 2024
Roanoke, VA
One-Person Show Special Presentation
The Literary Guild of St. Simons Island
St. Simons Island, GA
Premiered at the Brunswick Actors Theatre as one of three-one act plays presented under the title:
"Death Defying One Acts by Mary Miller"
Brunswick, GA
The show is available for booking now!
"Things I Learned in Isolation" by Mary Miller - Official Trailer
"Things I Learned in Isolation" by Mary Miller - Clip: GROCERY SHOPPING
Short & Ten Minute Plays
Ferris Wheel
Published in TAKE TEN: New 10-Minute Plays by Random House, FERRIS WHEEL is 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 give up smoking. They are both afraid of each other. Funny and touching it's the perfect romantic comedy for schools, professional/community theatres, fundraisers, and competitions.
Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival - Finalist
TAKE TEN: New 10-Minute Plays Random House Publication
Produced over 300 times, in 44 states, 17 countries
and translated into more than 7 languages
Next
In the award-winning comedy, NEXT, four women: Claire, Joan, Barbara, and Anne while sitting in a doctor's office waiting for a mammogram learn more about their breasts, their lives, and the true meaning of support!
Samuel French One Act Festival NY - Finalist
Love Creek One Act Festival NY - Winner
Brave New Works - Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Piedmont Hospital, Breast Cancer Awareness,
Atlanta, GA
SGHS, Breast Cancer Awareness, Brunswick, GA
KSB Breast Cancer Awareness, Dixon, IL
Excela Health, Breast Cancer Awareness, Pittsburgh, PA
Perfect for BREAST CANCER AWARENESS programs.
At 3:00 O'clock in the Morning
At 3:00 o'clock in the morning defenses are down and tempers flare when a middle-aged accountant, living on the ground floor of an old New York apartment building, finally confronts the neighbor living upstairs who has been walking around in circles overhead for the past 10 hours.
Samuel French One Act Festival NY - Finalist
Off-Off Broadway Samuel French Short Play Festival
Brief Acts Company - New York, NY
George Kernodle Competition
Fayetteville, AR - Finalist
Rosedale Community Players, Redford, MI
Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA
Perfect for AIDS AWARENESS programs.
Patterson's
In the parking lot outside Patterson’s, an old-fashioned funeral home, two high school sweethearts find making amends may require at least one of them to give up the shirt off their back. In the award-winning comedy Ms. Miller dares to ask the question: Is a funeral home ever the appropriate place to settle an old score?
Asheville Community Theater, NC - Autumn Players
Mary Miller Medley
Decatur Center Arts Festival - Decatur, GA
Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX
Southeast Playwrights Project - Emory University
Mulberry Lane
Do old dreams ever die? If they don't, is it ever too late to act on them? This is the question Clarice forces Bernice to answer one extraordinary day in August, while sitting on the back porch of an ordinary old folks home on Mulberry Lane.
National Playwriting Contest, Dubuque, IA- Winner
Three Lakes Fine Arts Series, Rhinelander, WI
Heartland Community Theatre, Clinton, MO
Eileen Heckart Senior Drama, Columbus, OH
Roundabout Theatre Arts, Kennewick, WA
Rosedale Community Players, Redford, MI
Island Players - St. Simons Island, GA
Carroll Lutheran Village, Westminster, MD
Asheville Community Theatre, NC - Autumn Players
Mary Miller Medley
Take Proper Care
In 1955, in Atlanta, GA, the line dividing blacks and whites was clearly defined unless you happened to be a nine-year-old white girl struggling to hold on to the only family you had left.
National Playwriting Contest, Dubuque, IA - Finalist
George Kernodle Competition, Fayetteville, AR - Finalist
Little Theatre of Alexandria, VA - Finalist
Peninsula High School, Gig Harbor, WA
Full-Length Plays
In the Kitchen: Thoughts on Love, Sex and Aging
Aging is not something we do willingly but it happens nonetheless if we are lucky enough to get old. Funny and poignant In the Kitchen... takes us on an intimate journey as we watch Kate, Lara, and Amy come to terms with an aging mother who is not ready to go from retirement to the retirement home.
Shawnee Playhouse Original Play Series Finalist
Shawnee on Delaware, PA
New England Theatre Conference (NETC)
John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award
Best Play of the Year
Brunswick Actors Theatre, Brunswick, GA
Waiting for Oprah
It's the last meeting of the 1st Tuesday Book Club (which meets on Thursday!) and Allison, Mia, Fran, Louise, and Janice are awaiting the arrival of their celebrity guest. But as they wait the question of whether Oprah will come or not is ultimately not as important as what they learn about themselves and how much they mean to each other.
Dayton Playhouse Future/Fest - Finalist
#1 Critics Choice & #1 Audience Favorite- Dayton, OH
Working Title Playwrights Festival - Atlanta, GA
Theatre Decatur, Main Stage, Decatur, GA
F.A.C.T. Community Theatre, Fairfield, IA
Brookville Community Theatre
Windham Theatre Guild, Willimantic, CT
Brunswick Actors Theatre, Brunswick, GA
Audition Monologues for Young Women Publication:
"Mia" Monologue
Light Burgers Waltzing through the Garden with Joe
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? When will it leave! Some ignore it, others dismiss it, and some swear it is a UFO waiting to land. LIGHT BURGERS is a romantic comedy that explores the mystery of what happens when ordinary people experience something extraordinary!
Off Off Broadway - Carousel Theatre Company, NY
Ritz Theatre, Brunswick, GA
Georgia Theatre Conference - Winner Best Actor & Actress
Playwrights Theatre of Denton, TX - Finalist
Art Downtown/Gallery 209 - Brunswick, GA
Glynn Academy Theatre, ONE-ACT, Brunswick, GA
Also available in a ONE-ACT EDITION perfect for High Schools, Community Theatres, and competitions.
Virgin Tears on Wyoming Avenue
When Mattie summons Chandler to come home because their sister Adele has seen the statue of the Virgin Mary crying real tears, Chandler finds that returning home is harder than she ever imagined. But playwright Mary Miller believes that maybe you can go home again and that miracles sometimes do take place in real flesh and blood, not just on wooden statues.
"BRILLIANT" Naples Daily News, Naples FL
Theatre Conspiracy Foulds Theater, Ft. Myers, FL - Finalist
New Plays in Process Hertz Stage - Alliance Theatre, GA
Women at the Door Theatre Competition,
Chicago, IL - Finalist
Women Playwrights Initiative, Orlando, FL - Finalist
A Christmas House aka Unfinished Dreams
A CHRISTMAS HOUSE is the perfect love story of an unforgettable Christmas. It is a wonderful play 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! It will touch anyone who has ever waited until the prime of their life to embrace their dreams.
South Carolina Playwrights Conference
Beaufort, SC - Finalist
Art Downtown/Gallery 209 - Brunswick, GA
Waterloo Playhouse Production - Waterloo, IA
Directors Lab Workshop - New York, NY
I Witness
The time is the summer of 1991. Jackson an African-American man in his late 30’s is frustrated with his job and his life. He impulsively spends his wife Rose's savings on a video camera and inadvertently records the brutal killing of an African-American man by the local police. Trapped in the dilemma as to whether to sell the tape or not the family must first face one another and re-evaluate their own lives. I Witness became the inspiration for the play WITNESS.
Dayton Future/Fest Award, Dayton, OH - Winner
Alice Arts Center - Oakland, CA
Delaware Theatre Company Competition - Finalist
National League of American PEN Women - Finalist
The Road Theatre Summer Playwrights Festival #9
Los Angeles, CA
A Matter of Grace
A MATTER OF GRACE set in New York City after the greatest economic downturn and housing crisis of our times exposes the ugly side of the American economy: the downsizing, the greed, and the games we play with other people’s lives.
National Repertory Theatre Foundation
National Play Award - Finalist
Women at the Door Theatre Competition - Finalist
Jane Chambers Playwriting Award - Honorable Mention
Essential Theatre Festival of New Plays - Finalist
Atlanta, GA
Chicago Dramatists Reading Series - Chicago, IL
Raven Theatre Workshop Series - Chicago, IL
Orange Curtain Theatre, Capistrano, CA
Confetti Theatre Main Stage Production -
Albany, NY