Frederick D. Miller

Frederick D. Miller is a Pittsburgh, PA-based dramaturg, historian, and fan of musical theatre. He is a fourth-year student in the Theatre and Performance Studies PhD program at Pitt. His research explores the textual and aesthetic dramaturgies of the twentieth and twenty-first century Broadway-style musical. His work has been published in Fifty Key Stage Musicals (Routledge) and MusicTheatreDance.

Frederick is a proud theatre educator. He is a current Teaching Fellow at Pitt, where he has taught courses in script analysis, theatre history, and global theatrical practices. In addition to serving as a previous Instructor of Record at Penn State University, Frederick has been an invited speaker and guest lecturer on musical theatre at Binghamton University, Wilkes University, and Harrisburg Area Community College.

In addition to his work in academia, Frederick founded The Musical Theatre Dramaturg in 2022, a consulting and educational service that assists theatrical institutions in engaging their artists and communities through dramaturgy-infused approaches in production, marketing, and audience engagement. Frederick has dramaturged over 50 theatrical productions from Off-Broadway revivals to high school musicals across the United States.

Frederick has presented his work at Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC), Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), the International Society for the Study of Musicals (ISSM), and the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KC/ACTF). For both MATC and MTDA, he is a Graduate Student Representative. For MATC, Frederick additionally serves as a member of the Conference Planning Committee.

Frederick holds an MA in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Pittsburgh and BA degrees in Theatre and Comparative Literature from Penn State University. To learn more about his work as a dramaturg, follow his Instagram @themtdramaturg, or visit his website, frederickdmiller.com.