Marilyn Suzanne Miller

Marilyn Suzanne Miller (born January 3, 1950) Her family moved to Monroeville, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh, where she attended Gateway High School, graduating in 1967.

As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, she pursued a degree in playwriting, graduating in 1972. She was accepted into the University of Iowa's writer's workshop, but she deferred enrollment in the Master of Fine Arts program there for financial reasons.

Television

After college, Miller worked as a fashion copy writer for a Pittsburgh department store. Soon after sending Brooks the script, she was flown to Hollywood by Garry Marshall to be a junior writer for The Odd Couple. For Brooks, she wrote for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the spinoff Rhoda. She also went on to write for Maude, Barney Miller, and Welcome Back, Kotter.

On SNL, Miller's writing appeared in the "Judy Miller" and "Rhonda Weiss" recurring sketches, both for Gilda Radner. She collaborated with Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd on the "Festrunk Brothers" ("Wild and Crazy Guys") sketches. She also wrote the classic "Dancing in the Dark" sketch for Radner and Martin in 1978. For her work on SNL she won two Emmys and received three other nominations, as well as winning several Writers Guild of America Awards. After more theatrical work, including briefly returning to SNL for most of the 1981-82 season, when Dick Ebersol had taken over as producer of the show, and Eddie Murphy was the star of the show back then; Miller returned to weekly television as a producer on The Tracey Ullman Show, for which she won another Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program in 1990. In 1991, she was the co-executive producer of the briefly revived The Carol Burnett Show. in 1992. She returned to the writing staff of SNL later that year, although she was not credited as a writer until the March 13, 1993 episode of season 18, by which point, Michaels had been back producing the show for several years by then. She has since talked about working with younger cast members such as Adam Sandler and Mike Myers, and younger writers like Dave Mandel and Steve Koren. After seven non-consecutive seasons, Miller permanently exited the show at the end of the show's infamous 20th season in 1995, alongside most of the writing staff and cast.

In 1998, she wrote an episode about breast cancer for Murphy Brown, winning a Humanitas Prize. In 2001, she won her third Writers Guild Award for SNL'''s 25th anniversary show, Saturday Night Live 25''.