SUZIE MILLER
ABOUT
Suzie Miller is a contemporary international playwright, librettist and screenwriter drawn to complex human stories often exploring injustice. She has often been described as a courageous writer and won the Australian Writers’ Guild and Kit Denton Fellowship for Writing with Courage in 2008.
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.
Australian/British 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.
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.
Australian/British 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.
NEWS
PRIMA FACIE - UK NEWS
Killing Eve star Jodie Comer is making her West End debut in one-woman show, Prima Facie.Read more >
THE GUARDIAN
Going to get hell for this': Suzie Miller takes us to the messy heart of MeToo in Prima Facie.Read more >
AN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY COMMENT
Writing this for International Women’s Day in the midst of so much turmoil around sexual assault, and the fact that a play I wrote in 2018 is still so current on this topic, makes me reflective, sad and outraged. In 2019 it was #metoo that allowed my play, Prima Facie, to find an audience on stage, yet in 2021 it feels more relevant than ever to reiterate the ideas behind the play.Read more >
WORK
As a writer, Suzie has won numerous awards, had her works published and/or performed, and has plenty of wonderful reviews.
CONTACT
united kingdom:
Agents - Julia Kreitman and Tanya TilletThe Agency
Phone +44 (0) 2077271346
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