Jason Miller Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for "That Championship Season․"
• Graduated from the University of Scranton with degrees in English and Philosophy
• Worked as a waiter, truck driver, welfare investigator, and messenger boy while writing and appearing in his first plays
• Quote: "On my tombstone I'll put, 'It's all a paper moon․' All the philosophies and all the -isms and all the religions are contained in that․․․I'd prefer that when I take the bus to another zone, I go further․ I'm not interested in coming back․"
• Best known for writing the play "That Championship Season" and for his role as Father Damien Karras in "The Exorcist․"
• Was artistic director of the Scranton Public Theater in his later years
• Attended Catholic University in Washington, but was asked to leave the Speech and Drama department "for never attending classes, never taking tests and never getting the girls back to their dormitory by 10 o'clock․"
• Adapted "That Championship Season" into a film, which he also directed himself