Biography

Frank Miller (Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1980; M.F.A., Ohio State, 1975) is a Lecturer and serves on the advisory board of the GSU Players, the university’s theater organization. Prior to teaching at Georgia State University, Dr. Miller taught at the Alliance Theatre School, the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, the University of South Alabama, and the University of the South. He has also served as the Managing Director of Theatre Gael, and Manager and Senior Writer in Public Relations for the Turner Broadcasting System. Serving as a teacher of acting and directing at Georgia State, he has directed or acted in plays that have been performed at the Jewish Theatre of the South, Theatre in the Square, Theatre Gael, 7 Stages, T.H.E. Theatre, Ltd., the Center for Puppetry Arts, and various southern universities. Miller has also published four books with Turner Publishing, including The Movies We Love (1996); Censored Hollywood: Sex, Violence, and Sin in the Movies (1994); MGM Posters: The Golden Years (1994); and Casablanca: As Time Goes By (1992). He has served as a Screenwriting grant reviewer for the National Endowment of the Arts, served as advisor for the Southeast Playwrights Project, and is President and a member of the Board of Directors for Actors in Renasence Theatre Lab. He recently presented a paper on “The Transgressive Theatre of Sky Gilbert” at ATHE.