Terri Edda Miller (sometimes Terri Miller or Terri E. Miller; born May 13, 1966) is an American
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
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,
producer, and
director
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Biography
Miller's first job in
Hollywood
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was as an intern in
Broadcast Standards at
ABC
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a network that she would return to as writer and executive producer on the crime-dramedy television series ''
Castle.'' In seven seasons on the show, Miller wrote 12 episodes, including “Vampire Weekend,” “Poof, You’re Dead,” “Always,” “Cuffed,” "The Time of Our Lives," "The Wrong Stuff," and "Hollander's Woods.”
During the run of the series, Miller also handled several new-media promotions surrounding the show including live-tweeting episodes and managing the Twitter account for the show's eponymous crime writer, Richard Castle.
Miller won a Screenwriting Award in 2004 at the Nantucket Film Festival for her Short Film ''DysEnchanted,'' which starred
Alexis Bledel
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,
James Belushi
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,
Laura Kightlinger
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, and
Sarah Wynter
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and was also a hit at the 2004 Sundance Festival.
Miller also won Back East Picture Show's Grand Prize Barbato Future Filmmaker Award ("For the filmmaker who demonstrated the most all around talent in a low budget feature or short and whose talents suggest that they will blossom into one of our most celebrated filmmakers of tomorrow”) for the short film ''My Femme Lady.'' Other credits include feature and television projects with
DreamWorks DreamWorks may refer to:
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,
Disney
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, and ABC, including ''Whit & Wisdom, Game Rules,'' and ''Bedwarmer.''.
Miller also won the
Nicholl Fellowship The Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting is a fellowship program founded in 1986 to aid screenwriters. It is administered by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
History
Gee Nicholl, widow of producer Don Nicholl, worked w ...
award in 1992 for her script ''Bedwarmer.'' It was at the Nicholl Fellowship awards dinner that she met her husband and fellow award winner
Andrew W. Marlowe. In 2013, they partnered to form MilMar Pictures.
In 2016, it was announced that they would partner with
Tandem Productions
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Tandem Productions
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for ''
Take Two'', a crime procedural about an LA private investigator and an actress working together to solve cases. Previously in 2014, it was announced that Miller would executive produce a television series centered on ''Castle'' character Derrick Storm alongside Marlowe with writer
Gregory Poirier
Gregory Stephen Poirier (born 19 May 1961) is an American film and television writer, director, and producer.
Life and career
Poirier was born in Kula, Maui, Hawaii, and attended the Maui Academy of Performing Arts. He wrote the screenpl ...
.
Miller serves on the board of directors of the
Young Storytellers Foundation Young Storytellers, formerly widely known as the Young Storytellers Foundation, is an arts education non-profit operating primarily in Los Angeles.
Young Storytellers currently serves elementary, middle, and high school students in Southern Califor ...
and on the board of directors of the
Writer's Guild Foundation.
References
External links
*
Terri Miller on Twitter
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1966 births
Living people
American screenwriters
American television writers
American women television writers
21st-century American women