Biography
Michelle Miller-Day's stage credits as an actor include August: Osage County (Mattie Fae), How I Learned to Drive (Female Greek Chorus/Mom), The Children (Hazel), Buried Child (Halie), Valentin's Last Dance (Valentine), The Whale (Mary), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Big Mama), The Humans (Deidre), 12 Angry Jurors (Foreperson), All my Sons (Sue), Steel Magnolias (M'Lynn), One Slight Hitch (Delia), Gaslight/Angel Street (Mrs. Manningham), The Real Inspector Hound (Cynthia), Pack of Lies (Barbara), Calendar Girls (Annie), God of Carnage (Annette), Miracle Worker (Kate Keller), On Golden Pond (Ethel), Streetcar Named Desire (Eunice), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Miss Flannery), The Full Monty (Jeanette), Lettice and Lovage (Lettice), Plaza Suite (Karen, Muriel, Norma), Poe Plays (Beatrice), Vagina Monologues (Under the Burqa, Memory of her Face), HOMEwork (Zoe), Two of Me (Amy), The General's Daughter (Sarah), Infanticide (One woman show).
Her films, narration, voiceover, television, and short film credits include: Films (Obsessed with the Babysitter, Cecropia, Flowers and Honey), Longform book narration (The Girl With the Glass Heart, Fancy White Trash, Captured in Lies, Knowing the Score), voiceover (L'Oreal, Skinceuticals, L'Oreal, Resveratrol), television (America's Courts, Season 7, episode 96), commercials (Sugardown, Wendys, Huggies, Ramada Inn), music video (Leroy Styles: Golden Youth), and short films: Second Helping (Dir. Sydney Raquel), Cecropia (Dir. Carlotta Crespo Moyano) Mom; Beth (Dir. Wafa Alabdulrazzaq)Mom; All Creatures Go to Heaven (Dir. Marqus Bobesich) Mom; Wang Syrup (Dir. Tyler the Creator) White Mom; The White Door (Dir. Giovanni Ribisi) Head Nurse; JCPenney (Dir. Craig Teper) Penney; Kaleidoscope (Dir. Joe Dicamillo) Mom
Her producer/director credits include Celebrating Safely, Student Stories, and HOMEwork and her writer credits include two produced stage plays: Call this Number and Two of Me. Michelle is also the author/co-author/editor of several published academic books: Constructing Motherhood and Daughterhood across the Lifespan (2019), Family Communication, Connections, and Health Transitions: Going Through this Together (2011), Communicating Intimacy in Older Adulthood (2009), Communication Among Grandmothers, Mothers, and Adult Daughters: A Qualitative Study of Women Across Three Generations (2004), and Adolescent Relationships and Drug Use (2000).
