Miller Murray Susen is a freelance writer, editor, playwright, director, theater educator, and proud Charlottesville native. She served as education director at Live Arts for a cumulative five years, and has been a teaching artist, director, and performer there for over a decade. She founded the Teenish Theater Workshop program, a playwriting, production, and performance workshop for 10 to 14 year olds, in 2015, and continues to facilitate it twice yearly. Additionally, she has taught drama and directed plays, including her own adaptations, at local institutions such as Four County Players, Charlottesville High School, Village School, The Bridge PAI, Trailblazer Elementary, and more. Her writing has appeared locally in the C-Ville Weekly, among other publications, and she has served as editor for work ranging from young adult novels, to college and grad school essays, to new plays, to Jambalaya, the Village School literary journal. She currently serves as co-president of the TheatreCHS Boosters club in support of the wonderful theater program at Charlottesville High School. In her free time she likes to hang out with her husband and two young adult children, run, read, cook, and play guitar and sing in a Lady Band at The Front Porch.
