MillerPrugh seeks to break people out of expectations and thought patterns that have directed both their lives and their understanding of what came before. They want to bring focus to untold histories and alternative trajectories. MillerPrugh’s first work You Will Never Read This, a 45-minute, two-actor exploration of the marriage of German chemists Fritz Haber and Clara Immerwahr, was produced at The Tank NYC as part of LadyFest 2017. They were awarded a 2017 Drama League First Stage residency to develop the underlying material into a full-length play. That play, IMMERWAHR, which places Clara in conversation with her near contemporary Marie Curie, received a reading at The Tank NYC in 2018. They were a 2019 semi finalist for Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor and finalists for the 2022 Room of One’s Own Residency with The Bechdel Project.
Cat Miller is a playwright and director. She is the recipient of a Drama League fall fellowship and first stage residency. Her play The Hope Hypothesis was a semifinalist for Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Premiere Stages Play Festival and PlayPenn and premiered under her direction with Voyage Theater Company in Fall 2019 to critical acclaim. Other full-length plays include: Standard of Care, You Will Never Read This (with Caroline Prugh) and her adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (Northwestern University mainstage). Directing credits include This Lingering Life by Chiori Miyagawa (HERE), I Enter the Valley by Dipika Guha (readings, Voyage Theater, Atlantic Theater Company), The Exonerated by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen (Next Theater), Letters to Kurt by Janine Nabors (Keen Company), All the Happy People (Edinburgh Fringe). She has directed and developed work at the Public Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, Steppenwolf, Ma-Yi Theater, The Lark and Ensemble Studio Theatre. As assistant director: Fish in the Dark, Of Mice and Men, The Motherfucker With the Hat, Domesticated and The Pain and the Itch with Anna D. Shapiro. Directing resident, Playwright Horizons; Member, Lincoln Center Directors Lab. MFA Northwestern University.
Caroline Prugh writes for live action – on stage and screen, alone and with others. As book writer: Til Death Do Us Part (with composer/lyricist Bobby Cronin) was awarded SDSU’s 2018-2020 inaugural developmental New Musical Initiative, the culminating full production was COVID-cancelled. As a songwriter, 54 Below/David Carpenter and New Georges have presented her work. Recent New York productions Pinwheel! (random access theatre; 2015 NYIT Nomination for Outstanding Musical), It’s Only Kickball, Stupid (kef productions; The Advocate’s Lesbian Best of 2014; with additional development by Fantastic Z, Seattle 2019 New Works Festival). Select NYC readings/workshops include: On This Morning (Pride Plays 2019), Prudence (Miranda Theatre Company’s 2018 Liz Smith Reading Series), and Gertrude Stein, You Are Mine, Gertrude Stein (2017 HERstory at IRT).
A veteran of nearly 25 years of New York City’s theater community, she spent her first decade in NYC at Stuart Thompson Productions as part of the general management team for 25 Broadway productions including the musicals Caroline or Change and Shrek the Musical, and the Tony Award winning plays: Proof, Take Me Out, Doubt, and God of Carnage.
She is a founding member of the writing team at Gamiotics Studios (formerly Seize the Show) since its inception in April 2020.
She and her wife Chef Paige reside in Brooklyn. Amherst College (BA), Columbia (MFA).
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