Allan Miller

Allan Miller wrote The Fox originally as a vehicle for himself as a young actor. Although optioned for Broadway in the 1960s, the play was not produced at that time. It languished in a trunk until 1981, when Mr. Miller directed the world premiere at the Back Alley Theatre, where he was the artistic director for ten years. He subsequently directed it Off-Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre, the Berkshire Theatre Festival and on tour throughout California. The Fox has since been produced by theatres in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Seattle, Fort Worth, Austin, San Francisco, San Diego and most of the fifty states, including the territory of Puerto Rico, and produced internationally in France, Belgium, Hong Kong, Canada, Germany and Argentina. The play has toured England and Australia and has been translated into French, Spanish, German and Chinese. It was also published by Doubleday for the Fireside Book Club, the California Arts Council's West Coast Plays, and a pivotal scene from The Fox is included in The Scenebook for Actors: Great Monologs and Dialogs from Contemporary & Classical Theatre.

Although Mr. Miller never got to act in The Fox, he has acted in over two hundred films and television productions, and dozens of plays in Los Angeles, where he lives, in many regional theatres, including South Coast Rep, Atlantic Rep and Seattle Rep, and on Broadway in Brooklyn Boy and Broadway Bound.

Mr. Miller is considered a master acting teacher and teaches acting privately and at The Actors Studio. He has also taught at the Yale School of Drama, New York University’s MFA program, the Focus Theatre in Dublin, and the International Actors group in Rome. He is also the author of A Passion for Acting, now in its third printing and recently released digitally on Amazon, and a DVD, The Craft of Acting: Auditioning.

Mr. Miller is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has served on the Board of Directors of the Screen Actors Guild, and has been a panelist for the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department and the California Arts Council. He studied with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Uta Hagen at HB Studio, and Erwin Piscator at the Dramatic Workshop.

More information can be found on his website: www.allanmiller.org