# MeetMilo Cramer

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# Meet Milo Cramer

**Tell us a bit about your background**

I got a BA from Bard College and then spent 10 years in Brooklyn self-producing indie theater with my friends. Our kaleidoscopic Chekhov adaptation MINOR CHARACTER: SIX TRANSLATIONS OF UNCLE VANYA AT THE SAME TIME played at The Public Theater's international Under-the-Radar festival in 2019, right before the pandemic shuttered theaters. I was delighted, after that, to come to UCSD (I'd never been to California!) to study theater & screenwriting.

**What are you studying/researching?**

I've used the incredible mentorship, community, and resources of UCSD to develop my solo show SCHOOL PICTURES, which is premiering Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons this November. SCHOOL PICTURES is a series of musical portraits of struggling teenaged students, which accumulate into a tapestry-like dissection of the broken New York City school system. It was nominated for two Barrymore Awards and was a finalist for the Relentless Award. If you're NYC this Fall - check it out.

**Describe your involvement in the UC San Diego community.**

I love TAing Intro to Playwriting along with my wonderful cohort. It feels meaningful to promote the arts inside this high-level STEM school. I live in graduate housing am still amazed and grateful everyday for the cacti. I grew up in puritan New England, where people have a different relationship to the body and to joy than they do here in Southern California. I've never been a beach person before but now I am addicted to the beach.

**Final Thoughs.**

Our school year culminates every Spring in the Wagner New Play Festival, a nationally recognized showcase of new plays by UCSD graduate students - please come! This year it's in May and it really is an awesome festival.

## [Arts & Humanities](https://grad.ucsd.edu/student-life/student-spotlights/arts-humanities/index.html)

- [Joanmarie Bañez](https://grad.ucsd.edu/student-life/student-spotlights/arts-humanities/joanmarie-bañez.html)
- Milo Cramer
- [Celine Khoury](https://grad.ucsd.edu/student-life/student-spotlights/arts-humanities/celine-khoury.html)
- [Caleb A. Mertz-Vega](https://grad.ucsd.edu/student-life/student-spotlights/arts-humanities/caleb-a-mertz-vega.html)
- [Bianca Negrete Coba](https://grad.ucsd.edu/student-life/student-spotlights/arts-humanities/bianca-negrete-coba.html)
- [Karina Ortiz Villa](https://grad.ucsd.edu/student-life/student-spotlights/arts-humanities/karina-ortiz-villa.html)
- [Reem Hazboun Taşyakan](https://grad.ucsd.edu/student-life/student-spotlights/arts-humanities/reem-hazboun-taşyakan.html)