FULL-LENGTH PLAYS
SEMI-PERMANENT
Synopsis: Emma, a first year journalism major, returns to her small hometown in Northern Maine following the recent suicide of one of her dearest friends, a popular high school senior whose religious family was vehemently opposed to his being being gay. Her personal and “professional” investigation follows an unconventional and very public path.
Awards: Semi-Finalist, Inkslinger Playwriting Competition, 2017.
Development: Readings, Elephant Ears Reading Series, Elephant Room Productions, Philadelphia, PA, 2016, 2022.
MYSTIC IN THE SAVAGE STATE
Synopsis: Mary Inigo Calkins, one of the first psychologists in the 1890s, strives to legitimize synesthesia (especially “color hearing”) in the eyes of her colleagues and the world.
Production: Workshop, Open Rehearsal Series with The Artful Conspirators, 2012; Reading, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, 2014; Reading (2013) and Workshop (2014), Strange Sun Theater, NYC.
Read an excerpt from Mystic in the Savage State
SISTERS OF THE ETERNAL KNOT
Synopsis: Warring nuns in medieval France collide in a struggle for power and identity.
Production: Workshop, Open Rehearsal Series with The Artful Conspirators, 2013
Read an interview with David about the play.
JOURNEYMAN OF BREUCKELEN
Synopsis: In the early 1600s, a storyteller–an outsider, enters Dutch Breuckelen to learn the community’s story and to challenge them with his own.
Production: Brooklyn Arts Council DCA Regrant to support the development of the play. Workshop, Open Rehearsal Series with The Artful Conspirators, 2011.
BROOKLYN UNDERGROUND: Theatrical stories from the Green-Wood Cemetery
Developed with the Artful Conspirators.
Production: Performed at the Old Stone House, 2010 and in the historic chapel of the Green-Wood Cemetery, 2011
THE SECOND PIPE OF DESIRE
Synopsis: Sylph and Undine have survived one civil war within the Blades of Grass, but may be entering into the next.
Production: Staged Reading, The Artful Conspirators, 2009
ONE ACT PLAYS
THE DOME (Playwright, “Break Time” section)
Production: Prospect Theater Company, NYC, 2009
A LESSON IN ART
Production: Workshop, Puppet Blok! at Dixon Place, NYC; Prospect Theater Company’s Dark Night Series, NYC, 2008
THE ORAL TRADITION: A Sacred Rebirthing & Reclaiming of The Hero’s Journey led by Tantalus McQueen
Production: Developed with The Artful Conspirators; Performed at Prospect Theater Company’s Dark Night Series, NYC, 2008
PEANUTS: THE X GENERATION
We’re Not Your Mother, Bellingham, WA
10-MINUTE PLAYS
OFF THE MAP (formerly titled RESTORATION/CONSERVATION)
Winters Theatre Festival Ten-Minute Play Festival, January 2021.
Educational Workshop, SUNY Ulster Theatre Workshop’s 10 Minute Play Festival (dir. Nicole Tarcza), 2015.
THE FLAMES
Production, C10: Comedy, The Collective NY at Paradise Factory, NYC, December 2015
Award: Finalist (Alternate for Performance), The Collective NY’s 2013 Collective10 Festival, 2013
Publication: The Collective:10 Play Anthology (Drama Book Shop or on Amazon)
Production/Award: Finalist, The Secret Theatre’s Act One Festival, 2013
Development: Reading, Muffins in the Window, 2009
TRUTH, DARE, KISS, KILL OR MARRY
Production: TinyRhino (the theatrical drinking game) with UglyRhino Productions, Brooklyn, NY, 2013
BOBBY AND THE BIRDCAGE
Production: Piper Theatre Productions, Brooklyn, NY, 2010
THE HERO’S JOURNEY (Or, It takes A Village to Make A Hero)
Production: The Drilling Company, NYC, dir. Gail Winar, 2008
DOJO
Development: Reading, SIP (Scripts in Progress), Brooklyn Arts Exchange, 2009
DEVISED WORK WITH YOUNG PEOPLE & FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES
SHE THINKS SHE’S SO CUTE, CityKids Repertory Company, New York, NY
GENTLE MEN PROJECT, George Street Playhouse Education, New Brunswick, NJ
Publications: Articles
“Why Can’t Theatre for Young Audiences Be More Like Hockey?” TYA Today (Vol. 22, Num 1, 2008) – Read the article.
“The Hunger for Story: Lessons from One Theatre World 2007” TYA Today (Vol. 21, Num 2, 2007)
David A. Miller 