As a new play development practitioner in a variety of roles (director, actor, playwright, artistic director, educator), I strive to contribute to a healthy new play development process that centers the play and the playwright and actively supports true collaboration. Representative new play development programs and projects are listed below.

Director, Actor, Board Member. Seven Devils New Play Foundry, New York, NY. As a regularly participating artist with Seven Devils, David has the opportunity to support the development of new plays by professional playwrights from around the country in collaboration with fantastic professional colleagues invested in the new play development process. David was invited to join the Board in 2022 and was elected President of the Board in 2024.

• id Theatre Sit-in Series.
  • Director, Staged Reading of Fourth Planet by Dano Madden, Jimmy’s No. 43, New York, NY. 2017.
• Seven Devils Playwrights Conference 2021.
  • Actor, Body + Blood by Shannon LT Kearns.
• Seven Devils Playwrights Conference 2023.
  • Actor, Queen of the Bonackers by Susan Kathryn Hefti. Director, A Beginner’s Guide to Self-Loathing and Why We Say Goodbye by Wolfgang Jones with dramaturg Heidi Kraay.
• Evening of New Work by the id-iots at Play.
  • Director, Short pieces by playwrights Cathy Caplan and Dano Madden. With Juggernaut Theatre Company. Episcopal Actors’ Guild Hall, New York, NY. 2024.
• Seven Devils Playwrights Conference 2024.
  • Director, Plantation Black by Phaedra Michelle Scott with dramaturg Alyana Jaqueline and Anti-Hero: Revenge of the Sw*fties by Derick Edgren Otero with dramaturg Carol Ann Tan.

Artistic Director. Plays in Bloom: A New Play Development Program at Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA. Created and led by David A. Miller, the program aims to nurture new plays by guest professional artists and by students. In the process, students learn positive practices for new play development they can bring with them into their professional careers. The primary opportunities for students include the course Theatre 492: New Play Development and the Plays in Bloom Residency which partners students with professional playwrights.

• Instructor, THEA 492 Seminar in Performance: New Play Development, Spring 2022
• Instructor, THEA 492 Seminar in Performance: New Play Development, Spring 2025
• Plays in Bloom Residency 2022: Director, The Astronots by Mora V. Harris
• Plays in Bloom Residency 2023: Producer, The Appliance Department by Bella Poynton
• Plays in Bloom Residency 2024: Director, The Wanting Forest by Monica Flory

Director and Play Evaluator, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival’s Region 2 National Playwriting Program. David regularly participates as an artist for KCACTF Region 2’s NPP, most recently at the Festival in Pittsburgh, PA, in January 2025 when he directed a concert reading of wanderlust by Tyler Joseph Rossi. In January 2024 David directed a concert reading of The Monument Maker by Sally Seitz, an MFA student at Carnegie Mellon, for the National Playwriting Program. Set in “a time of destruction” after 30 straight days of rain in the Lowlands of South Carolina, The Monument Maker is suffering through the responsibility of having created the monuments that have all been taken down for good reason… The reading featured student actors Francesca Love and Katie Goz of Adelphi University and Tyler Hawkins from Borough of Manhattan Community College. The dramaturg was recent Bloomsburg University grad Matt Hogeland. The play was awarded recognition as a Finalist for the John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play.

Artistic Director. The Artful Conspirators, New York, NY, 2007-2014
Founder of a theater collective dedicated to including the audience in the theatre-making process.  Innovative new works include 30 ideas, 3 of them good, in which the audience voted on the 3 best and 1 worst theatrical idea.  The winner, Leaving IKEA, became a full production in 2012. Other new works included A Lesson in Art, The Oral Tradition, and the Open Rehearsal Series in which new plays were developed.