Miller, Suzanne, 1935-1994.

Actress, writer.

Miller was born in Toledo, OH. She began her theater training as an apprentice for the Mad Anthony Players, a summer stock group that performed at the Toledo Zoo. After she moved to New York in 1954, she became a featured performer on Steve Allen's "Tonight Show," appeared in an article in Life magazine in December 1956, and performed on the "Honeymooners" with Jackie Gleason. She studied acting under Stella Adler and worked for Joseph Papp's Shakespeare in the Park as an assistant to director Gladys Vaughan. She appeared on Off-Broadway and directed plays, including a production at Mexico City College which featured character actor Anthony Zerbe. She also appeared in an underground film directed by Surrealist artist, Joseph Cornell, "A Legend for Fountains, " which was later remade by Cornell and entitled, "Mulberry Street." She wrote plays for the stage, a screenplay, short stories, poems, and an unfinished novel, all of which were unpublished. She was friend to a number of actors, directors, and artists, including Adler, Vaughan, and Cornell; and is included in books written about Cornell. At mid-life she moved to southern California where she focused on writing. She moved back to Toledo in 1992 and received her bachelor of arts degree from the University of Toledo in 1994.