Henry Miller’s collection of one-act plays: Songs of the One-Act Muse, and his full-length play, My Brother’s Keeper was published by the Alexander Street Press and is available on CD as part of the Black Drama Anthology acquired by major universities, including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and New York University. 

 

His one-act plays: The Christmas Eve Companion, A Winter Reunion and Gifts of Parting were awarded first prize and Honorable Mention in Samuel French’s Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival. 

 

He has studied with the noted dramatists, Philip Hayes Dean, Arthur Kopit, and John Guare. 

 

Miller has also written for the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, The Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum in Philadelphia, Columbia Pictures, the New York Village Voice, Theatre Survey, and the African American Review. Miller’s book, Theorizing Black Theatre, was published in March 2011 by McFarland & Co.

 

In March 2011, his lecture venues included the Ralph Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, the National Black Theatre Festival Colloquium in North Carolina, and the University of Kansas

           

Henry Miller has also staged more than 35 Off-Off Broadway and regional theatre productions, including his own plays, much of African American canon of drama, and his recent staging (October, 2012) of Jeff Stetson’s award-winning play Fraternity for the Ebony Repertory Theatre of Los Angeles, CA.  His directing ventures in musical theatre include George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward’s oper, Porgy and Bess for the Indianapolis Opera and the Opera Company of Philadelphia, and Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson’s Lost in the Stars for the Opera Ebony Company. 

 

His half hour film, Death of a Dunbar Girl has been exhibited in Black American Film Festivals at the Vatican in Rome, the Forum Des Halles in Paris, the National Theatre in London, and the Public Theatre and Whitney Museum in New York.

           

Dr. Miller holds a Bachelors degree in Film and Video production. He taught and lectured on theatre at the New York’s Graduate and University Center, City College of New York, and Kean University in New Jersey.  He held the 2009 Langston Hughes Visiting Professor of Theatre Chair at the University of Kansas, and has done other Visiting Professorships at the Arts and Theology Institute of the Memphis Seminary (2007) and North Carolina A&T State University (2005-06).  He is a recipient of the CUNY Magnet Fellowship for doctoral studies in theatre.

           

The Henry Miller Theatre Collection, identifying his work, as well as the work of many other African American theatre artists, is archived at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NYPL).  As Co-Director of Harlem’s Uptown Playwrights’ Workshop (2007-12), Dr. Miller was cited by the New York City Council for his contributions to that inner-city Arts institution.