Dr Suzie Miller
Dr Suzie Miller is a contemporary international playwright, screenwriter and author, drawn to complex human stories often exploring injustice.
Her plays have been produced in over 100 productions around the world winning multiple prestigious awards. She has been commissioned by, or been in residence at theatres including London’s National Theatre, the National Theatre of Scotland, Griffin Theatre Australia, Theatre Gargantua Canada and La Boite Theatre Australia.
In 2020, her drama Prima Facie (premiered at Griffin Theatre 2019) winning the 2020 AWGIE for Drama; the 2020 David Williamson Award for Outstanding Theatre Writing; and the 2020 prestigious Major AWGIE across all categories of theatre, film and television.
When it premiered as a play on London’s West End, it earned five-star reviews across all platforms, winning the London Olivier Award 2023 for Best New Play, and for Best Actor, with two other nominations; the play also won the 2023 London Whatsonstage award for Best Play and won the 2023 UK Southbank Sky Arts Award for best play. The same production opened on Broadway in 2023 winning a Tony Award for Best Actress (Jodie Comer) and was nominated for a further three Olivier Awards. It was also nominated and won awards for the NY Drama Desk amongst others. Prima Facie has now been translated into over 25 languages, with productions mounting all over the world, 22 different productions in Germany alone, and will soon be made into an international film.
Other award-winning and leading play credits include: Jailbaby; Anna K; RBG - Of Many, One; Caress/Ache; Sunset Strip; Dust; SOLD; Transparency; The Mathematics Of Longing; A Feminist Medea; Reasonable Doubt; Driving Into Walls and Cross Sections.
Before writing full-time, Dr Miller worked as a human rights and criminal justice lawyer, graduating from the University of New South Wales Law School with an LLB and an LLM. Some of the organisations that she worked at include Freehills, the Aboriginal Legal Service, Public Interest Advocacy Centre, Legal Aid Children’s Court and the Shopfront Legal Service. She was also the Co-Founder of ‘Australian Lawyers for Human Rights’ in 1993.
Dr Miller also has an honours degree in Science from Monash University, majoring in Microbiology and Immunology, an MA (in theatre and film) from the University of New South Wales, a PhD from the Queensland University of Technology in theatre and mathematics and an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of New South Wales.
Dr Miller’s first novel, Prima Facie, has recently been published in Australia, the UK, America and other countries in Europe and Asia.
Dr Miller’s next play will open at London’s National Theatre in 2025, and other work in 2025 will grace the stages of London, New York, Australia and New Zealand. Her screen work includes original films: Prima Facie (Bunya Australia), Fragments of a Woman (Bankside UK), and original TV projects: Creatures of Mayhem (Matchbox), Learned Friends (Film Nation), SCOTUS (A24 with David E Kelley), Daphne (Working Title) and other TV adaptations of Dr Miller’s previous plays.