About Savannah
INCOMING MFA DRAMATURGY & DRAMATIC CRITICISM STUDENT AT YALE UNIVERSITY
2020-2021 YOUNG PLAYWRIGHT IN PROCESS
MEMPHIS FLYER'S 20<30 CLASS OF 2024
2020-2021 YOUNG PLAYWRIGHT IN PROCESS
MEMPHIS FLYER'S 20<30 CLASS OF 2024
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Savannah S. Miller (she/her) is a queer and disabled writer of poems, plays, and the things in between. A strong believer in the power of words, she considers herself an inventor and agitator, and her art and scholarly pursuits a means of activism.
Savannah's work aims to center the narratives of women and LGBTQIA+ communities, as well as raise awareness about mental health and invisible access needs. She will be pursuing her MFA in Dramaturgy & Dramatic Criticism from Yale University, beginning in the fall of 2026. Her writing has been featured by or is forthcoming with the Amsterdam Review, Rappahannock Review, Modern Language Studies, Jelly Bucket, Flash Fiction Magazine, Watershed Review, the Sierra Club, and others. She is the author of the poetry collection Route 460 (Red Rook Press) and the poetry chapbook Transit (Bottlecap Press). |
Photo by Sean Moore
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In addition to writing, Savannah has acted in several productions, including A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theatre Memphis, 2024); Theatre: A Love Story (Women's Theatre Festival, 2021);The Sweet Science of Bruising (Dartmouth College, 2020); and A Chekhovian Cabaret (CRASH Theater Co., 2019). She has developed works with the New York Theatre Workshop and CRASH Theater Co. She is also a stage manager, most recently serving as ASM for the regional premiere of Roe (Playhouse on the Square, 2023). As an arts educator and arts advocate, Savannah has fulfilled positions with various artistic institutions, such as the Smithsonian's Discovery Theater, the Stratford Festival, the National Women's Theatre Festival, and the Virginia Theatre Association. She was also one of two selected by Young Playwrights' Theater to be a Young Playwright in Process for 2020-2021 and won the Teresa Jordan Emerging Local Playwright Competition through Germantown Community Theatre outside Memphis, Tennessee in 2025. AB: Dartmouth College, Theatre; MFA: Augsburg University, Creative Writing.