Lara Miller

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...
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).

Plays

  • Catch by Lara Miller
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: female friendship, maternal loss + 2 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: female friendship, maternal loss, interracial love, midwifery
    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
    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: drama, fable/folktale
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    Keyword: friendship, medicine + 4 more
    Genre: drama, fable/folktale
    Keyword: friendship, medicine, HIV/AIDS, folklore, Islam, Catholicism
    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
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: centers lgbt characters, library
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: centers lgbt characters, library
    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.
  • Of Love & Lox by Lara Miller
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: dark comedy
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    Keyword: coping with death and grief, delusion + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy
    Keyword: coping with death and grief, delusion, bagels
    A mermaid play about an aging appetizing store owner and his dying wife.
  • Homeopathy by Lara Miller
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: fertility issues, marriage + 2 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: fertility issues, marriage, desire for children, faith
    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
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: lunch date, older man/younger woman
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: lunch date, older man/younger woman
    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.