Mona Deutsch Miller, an award-winning playwright, has been writing since childhood. Member of the Dramatists Guild, ALAP (immediate past president), LAFPI, Fierce Backbone Theater Company and Honor Roll!, an advocacy group on Facebook of women+ playwrights over 40. She is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences, and used to practice law. She was born in Florida, grew up in Manhattan, and has lived in Los Angeles long enough to qualify as an Angeleno. Twelve of her plays have been produced in Southern California and elsewhere. Some have been produced in North Carolina (Magnetic Theatre), Texas and New York. Her play Frankie, Queen of the Ferry, took first prize at the Tehachapi Community Theatre Playpalooza in July 2023. She studied play writing with Lisa Soland, Susan Merson, Jean Claude van Itallie and Leon Martell, among others. She writes in multiple genres, including comedy, black comedy, drama, youth plays and historical plays. Her plays, Strangers on a Train (also known as The End of the Line) and Sardines have been published, as have some of her monologues. (She has also published short stories, essays and poetry.) She has been a member of Fierce Backbone, a Los Angeles theater company devoted to the development of new work, for approximately 14 years, including a stint as Head of the Writers Unit. Her colleagues reported that her feedback and dramaturgical advice were excellent, insightful and helpful. She loves classical music, sunshine and movies. She has also written multiple full-length plays, several screenplays, an original TV pilot and spec scripts for "Northern Exposure" and "Monk." She's fluent in French and rusty in Russian.