Lara Miller

Lara Miller is a playwright living outside of Detroit, MI. Her play G.R.I.D. was a 2021 O'Neil Semi-Finalist and a 2021 Jane Chambers Award finalist. Her play Catch was a 2020 O'Neil Semi-Finalist and a 2020 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award Honorable Mention. Her short play Sketches of Danae was the 2019 Bartell Theatre Awards recipient of Best Script and Best Overall Short. Other works have been produced at the Playwrights Center of San Francisco and Bricolage Production Company. BA from NYU, MSc from UCSF, and MFA candidate at CMU (2024).

Lara Miller is a playwright living outside of Detroit, MI. Her play G.R.I.D. was a 2021 O'Neil Semi-Finalist and a 2021 Jane Chambers Award finalist. Her play Catch was a 2020 O'Neil Semi-Finalist and a 2020 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award Honorable Mention. Her short play Sketches of Danae was the 2019 Bartell Theatre Awards recipient of Best Script and Best Overall Short. Other works have been produced at the Playwrights Center of San Francisco and Bricolage Production Company. BA from NYU, MSc from UCSF, and MFA candidate at CMU (2024).

Scripts

Of Love & Lox

by Lara Miller

Synopsis

A mermaid play about an aging appetizing store owner and his dying wife.

A mermaid play about an aging appetizing store owner and his dying wife.

Homeopathy

by Lara Miller

Synopsis

Lorelie and David brew an herbal concoction one night to help with their fertility. As it takes effect, they talk about the desires and hesitations to have children. Are they really on the same page?

Lorelie and David brew an herbal concoction one night to help with their fertility. As it takes effect, they talk about the desires and hesitations to have children. Are they really on the same page?

Lunch Date

by Lara Miller

Synopsis

Ill fated lovers sit opposite one another on a New York City park bench. They eat lunch. They long for one another. They part ways.

Ill fated lovers sit opposite one another on a New York City park bench. They eat lunch. They long for one another. They part ways.

Catch

by Lara Miller

Synopsis

Susannah, a white homebirth midwife, is passionate about her work. She has no intention of exchanging her career for motherhood, yet work arrives much faster than she was anticipating when she receives a visit from McKayla Robbins, a high profile, black actress who is heavily pregnant. On the night of McKayla’s birth, Susannah rushes to the scene, unaware that in the aftermath she will be forced to confront her...

Susannah, a white homebirth midwife, is passionate about her work. She has no intention of exchanging her career for motherhood, yet work arrives much faster than she was anticipating when she receives a visit from McKayla Robbins, a high profile, black actress who is heavily pregnant. On the night of McKayla’s birth, Susannah rushes to the scene, unaware that in the aftermath she will be forced to confront her unacknowledged biases and how they affect her cherished relationships with her patients, her husband, and her baby daughter.

G.R.I.D.

by Lara Miller

Synopsis

Medical resident Rose lives her life as an anchoress, stuck in a hospital with little life of her own. She meets Hasan, an actor and patient with a mysterious illness, and it is as if they have known one another forever. And maybe they have. As Rose tries to heal Hasan's illness through medicine, he tries to heal her solitude through poetry and friendship.

Medical resident Rose lives her life as an anchoress, stuck in a hospital with little life of her own. She meets Hasan, an actor and patient with a mysterious illness, and it is as if they have known one another forever. And maybe they have. As Rose tries to heal Hasan's illness through medicine, he tries to heal her solitude through poetry and friendship.

Sketches of Danae

by Lara Miller

Synopsis

Jane tries to steal a book from her local library. Aubrey catches her. In the ensuing conversations, Aubrey begrudgingly helps Jane think through her many questions of gender and sexuality.

Jane tries to steal a book from her local library. Aubrey catches her. In the ensuing conversations, Aubrey begrudgingly helps Jane think through her many questions of gender and sexuality.