Roy Miller is a Broadway producer and currently serving as the producing artistic director at Surflight Theatre in Beach Haven, New Jersey, on Long Beach Island.
Broadway Credits
editBroadway producer Roy Miller (born 1960) is credited with discovering The Drowsy Chaperone in Toronto, and introducing it to American audiences in 2005 at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles where it won five Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Awards and five Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. The show opened on Broadway in 2006, and was nominated for 13 Tony Awards. The show won five Tony Awards, seven Drama Desk Awards (including Best Musical), the NY Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical, four Outer Critics' Circle Awards, and a Grammy nomination for Best Musical Show Album. Miller also produced the national tour and London production (five Olivier Award nominations).
Miller's other Broadway producing credits include The Pee-wee Herman Show (2010), West Side Story (2009 Tony nomination for Best Musical Revival and Grammy-Award Winner for Best Musical Show Album), Ragtime (2010 Tony nomination for Best Musical Revival), Title Of Show (2008), Mark Twain's Is He Dead? (2008), High Fidelity (2006), and I'm Not Rappaport (2002). He also produced the tours of A Chorus Line (2002) and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2000). He also recently produced the 2011 pre-Broadway tour of the new musical A Christmas Story, based on the classic 1983 motion picture. Co-producing the show with Miller is Peter Billingsley, who starred in the movie as young Ralphie.
Biography
editA New Jersey native, Miller is no stranger to the landmark theatre's 450-seat venue, returning to the helm of the same theatre where he began his career in theatre, as an apprentice at Surflight Theatre in 1975. That first introduction to summer theatre at the New Jersey Shore was followed by two subsequent seasons as an apprentice and, eventually, as a member of the acting company in 1978. Prior to his current role, Miller had served as a member of Surflight's Board of Trustees.
Prior to Broadway, Miller spent 14 years at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ (1991-2004). Miller produced over 80 musicals and plays including Crazy For You (broadcast nationwide on PBS' "Great Performances" series and Emmy nominated); Follies starring Ann Miller (recorded on TVT records); Gypsy starring Betty Buckley and Deborah Gibson; Animal Crackers starring Kristin Chenoweth; and Stephen Schwartz's new musical Children of Eden.[1] (recorded on RCA records). Miller serves as a panelist for the ASCAP Foundation Musical Theatre Workshop and guest lecturer for the Commercial Theatre Institute and Broadway Speakers' Bureau. He is a member of the Broadway League, the national trade association for the Broadway industry.