Mona Deutsch Miller

About Mona Deutsch Miller

Mona Deutsch Miller, a Life Member of ALAP, writes plays, short stories and screenplays.  She was born in Florida, grew up in Manhattan and moved to California for Stanford Law School.  As a New Yorker, she was drawn to the big city on the West Coast, and moved to Los Angeles with her lawyer husband.  She recently retired from the practice of law, so her writing is no longer interrupted by that demanding day job.  She has written since childhood.  When she discovered an unfinished short story she had started on a "slow day at the office," she realized, I'm a writer.  

She has had approximately 10 plays produced in Los Angeles, and looks forward to many more productions.  This queen of the 10-minute play has written over 20 10-minute plays, one of which is included in "Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2020," edited by Lawrence Harbison, and another of which is in Lisa Soland's "30 Short Plays for Passionate Actors."  She writes in multiple genres, including comedy, black comedy, historical, drama, absurdist and sci fi.  Two of her short stories have been published, and some of her monologues have been published.  In 2014, she participated as a producer and writer in the 48-Hour Film Project, and made an 8-minute silent movie,  "In Sickness and in Health."  

She is also a long time member of Fierce Backbone, a theatre company devoted to the development of new plays, the Dramatists Guild, and LAFPI.

Mona did a series of interviews in 2021 on the Stage Explorations website about ALAP, but in this interview, she speaks about her life and playwriting.