David Lee Miller

WGAw member David Lee Miller is an award-winning director, writer, producer and composer. He has been honored by the Pope in the Sistine Chapel (at the Vatican's 2009 historic Meeting of the Artists) and by Pixar in their sacred Emeryville digs (for My Suicide, currently on Netflix). Miller wrote-directed-produced the live action/animated feature film My Suicide (Interscope), which won the Crystal Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, and over twenty other Best Picture awards. The movie consistently attracts repeat viewers, particularly young fans who launched an online I Am An Archie community, which now thrives organically on Tumblr & Letterboxd. Executive Produced by Harold Ramis and Jimmy Iovine, the movie features music from Radiohead, MGMT, Bright Eyes, Mark Mothersbaugh, My Morning Jacket and The Pixies; and has gathered thousands of testimonials from young people in need who it has "pulled back from the cliff's edge" of suicide. David's children's picture book, The Cat Who Lived with Anne Frank (written with Steven Jay Rubin), debuted from Penguin Random House's Philomel imprint in 2019 (illustrated by award-winner Elizabeth Baddeley, I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark). The book launched as the family event at the Simon Wiesenthal's Center's Museum of Tolerance on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Miller, who wrote for the Fox/Marvel Spider-Man animated series, is producing a Mouschi: The Cat Who Lived with Anne Frank animated feature. David wrote, directed and scored the family film, Zoo-Opolis! (Pacific Arts/ Orion), and wrote the Simon & Schuster Picture Storybooks from the movies Baby (Disney) and The Goonies (Amblin). Miller adapted Max Lucado's best-selling children's books - You Are Special, You Are Mine and If I Only Had a Green Nose - for animated production. For Mark Swanson Productions (American Tail, Rock-A-Doodle), Miller wrote The Sugar Plum Fairy (a fantasy prequel to The Nutcracker) and The Cosmic Kid. On the pioneering technology front, David directed The Voyager Company's best-selling Mozart The Dissonant Quartet CD-ROM (over a million units shipped), and was the Head of The Criterion Collection, creating the industry's first interactive laserdisc Special Editions of great classic and contemporary motion pictures with renowned filmmakers (Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Peter Bogdanovich, John Sturges, Barry Levinson, Vilmos Zsigmond, etc.). Miller's video game credits include The Weakest Link (Activision), the animated All Dogs Go To Heaven Activity Center (MGM), and the 5-title animated/live-action children's Explorers series (Zoo, Bugs, Ocean and Dinosaur Explorers for Compton's NewMedia and The Learning Company). Co-founder of 501c3 nonprofit Regenerate and Roaring Mouse Entertainment, David has written, consulted and produced animation, special effects, video games, films, scripts and new media for Universal, Sony, Disney, Fox, MGM, Paramount, The Learning Company, Harvey, Polygram, Warner Brothers, Phillips, New Line, Hyundai, Citadel Communications, the Ad Council, the DOT, the American Geographical Society and Idealab. A graduate of Stanford University's film & journalism programs, and Princeton University's creative writing program, David lives in the Lake Sherwood area inland from Malibu - the "Hollywood home" of Shangri-La, Robin Hood, and Woody Woodpecker.