Miller, Yael K.

Yael K. Miller has been interested in stories from a very young age, and as a child she frequented the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), where paintings that told stories held her interest. At the University of Pennsylvania Yael majored in English with a Medieval/Renaissance concentration and minored in Classical Studies. She likes to say that she spent four years studying story. In her senior year Yael won the 2004-2005 Penn Playwriting Fellowship, which earned a stipend and a week-long workshopping of her short play JULIET'S NURSE (an Ovidian retelling of Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULI...