Milo is a writer and performer based in NYC and San Diego. This is their instagram.
Milo’s solo show SCHOOL PICTURES premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, November 2023. New York Magazine called it the best play of the year.
Milo’s audio-play BOY FACTORY - a confessional meditation on puberty and the 90s - can be heard on Playwrights Horizons: Soundstage and Spotify.
Milo is a MacDowell Fellow, an MFA Candidate at UC San Diego, and an Aries.
SCHOOL PICTURES - a sweeping portrait of the broken NYC school system, told in musical snapshots of individual teenagers - has been produced Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons and in Philadelphia at The Wilma, directed by Morgan Green.
Gently riveting… unfolds into an extraordinary meditation on teaching and learning… what they're doing is simply structured, generously conceived, full—inside its simple container—of irresolvable yearning and wondering, guessing and risking — and it’s completely wonderful.
- Sara Holdren, Vulture
A layered, compassionate view of the striving urban parents and pressured children so routinely distilled to cliché… Foregrounds [student] voices in all of their complexity and self-contradiction, their resistance and silence and honesty and delight, taking you where the opinion writer or cultural anthropologist can’t… At the heart of the play are questions about what is really worth knowing and what sacrifices warrant the effort in a system in which success seems so arbitrarily distributed.
- Ginia Bellafante, New York Times
SCHOOL PICTURES directed by Morgan Green; photos by Johanna Austin.
Milo’s play CUTE ACTIVIST - a fabulist satire skewering millennial pieties - premiered at The Bushwick Starr in association with Clubbed Thumb, directed by Morgan Green. It was developed at the SoHo Rep Writer/Director lab and featured original music by Deepali Gupta.
Lightning-fast, kitten fanged… an unalloyed joy.
-Helen Shaw, Time Out NY
A brilliant match of material and theater… a fable for our times.
-Jesse Green, New York Times
In Milo Cramer’s affectionate, scattershot satire, a bunch of city dwellers are trying to do the right thing. Or maybe they're just doing the easy thing. They're almost certainly doing something. Bouncily directed by Morgan Green, the play imagines a Disneyfied space of rising rents, awkward Tinder dates, and fifty-dollars green salads - the kind of place where a guy (Ronald Peet) and a girl (Madeline Wise) can’t quite fall in love… Cute Activist is, at its best, exploring the contortions of youth and idealism.
-The New Yorker
CUTE ACTIVIST directed by Morgan Green; photos by Maria Baranova.
Milo’s play DEEP PURPLE WIGGLE - a farce about pronouns - premiered at Theater Battery in Seattle, set in an indoor pool in an abandoned storefront.
Flitters happily in and out of hyper-realism… The brilliance of this play is it doesn’t try to give answers… Whatever you think you know — about relationships, about straightness, about queerness, about identity, about performing your own identity or telling people how to manifest theirs — Deep Purple Wiggle wants you to feel free to ask, examine, and explore.
-NWTheater.org
It’s impossible to watch “Deep Purple Wiggle” without a certain amount of self-reflection — what is my gender to me? Where did I pick up these ideas about who I am? Do I like these ideas? Would I change them if I could? How do these beliefs about myself affect my relationships? What have I not seen about the people in my life as a result of these beliefs? …Deep Purple Wiggle invites us into these conversations so that we all may spend the short time we have on Earth experiencing the fullness of ourselves.
-ILoveKent.net
DEEP PURPLE WIGGLE directed by Logan Ellis; photos by Luca Le.
In 2012, Milo co-founded New Saloon Theater Co with Morgan Green and Madeline Wise, and spent 5 years co-creating and performing in MINOR CHARACTER: SIX TRANSLATIONS OF UNCLE VANYA AT THE SAME TIME, a kaleidoscopic adaptation of Chekhov’s masterpiece, seen at The Public Theater’s Under The Radar Festival, The Wilma, The Sharon Playhouse, The Invisible Dog, and elsewhere.
It was grand to see the frothy meringue Minor Character again… this weirdo version of Uncle Vanya has gotten even better since it was in Brooklyn last year.
-Helen Shaw, American Theatre
The result is a group portrait of minds divided, and yet at the same time multiplied, against themselves.
-Jesse Green, New York Times
Minor Character is a true feat of deconstruction, and a tremendous undertaking… They have taken a canonical work and have managed to stretch its imaginary spaces, making it instantly important and relevant, pushing the boundaries of adaptation and translation work of plays to new heights.
- Haruna Lee, CultureBot
MINOR CHARACTER won 3 NY Innovative Theater awards.
MINOR CHARACTER at The Sharon Playhouse, directed by Morgan Green; photo by Maria Baranova.
Other plays include BUSINESS IDEAS (Clubbed Thumb), APOLOGY CIRCLE (Ars Nova), NONNA KILLS THE PRESIDENT (Wagner New Play Festival), WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S MOM (The Brick), I’M MISERABLE BUT CHANGE SCARES ME (Lincoln Center Director’s Lab), SPEECH THERAPY (La MaMa), STUPID BOY COOKIES (Ensemble Studio Theater / Youngblood), BARNES AND NOBLE (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council), and more.
I FOUND A ZIPPER at the Wagner New Play Festival, directed by Kim Rubinstein.
contact: milocramer1@gmail.com
professional inquiries: Emma Feiwel / WME efeiwel@wmeagency.com
