Kam Miller

Kam Miller is a TV writer-producer who has created pilots for Fox, CBS, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Television, and Universal Cable Productions. She wrote for Fox's “Killer Instinct” as well as the long-running NBC show “Law & Order: SVU.” Her first feature, “The Iris Effect,” was produced while she was at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Miller is a graduate of the WGA Showrunner Training Program. She has taught TV writing at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and Boston University Department of Film & Television. Her recent book, “The Hero Succeeds: The Character-Driven Guide to Writing Your TV Pilot,” details the proven character-driven structure to create TV dramas and comedies that sell to Hollywood.

She has been a featured speaker at the CBS Writers Mentoring Program, NBC Writers on the Verge, USC School of Cinematic Arts, UCLA, the Harvard Film Festival, the DePaul University School of Cinematic Arts, WonderCon, the Institute of American Indian Arts, the National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications, and the University Film and Video Association, among others.

As a grad student, Miller created the highly successful USC First Pitch, the official pitch festival for the USC School of Cinematic Arts. As an alumna, she co-created USC First Team, a program that shepherded teams of writers, directors, and producers through development and took feature projects out to the industry. One of those features, “Kelly & Cal,” won the SXSW Gamechanger Award in 2014. “Kelly & Cal,” written by Amy Lowe-Starbin and directed by Jen McGowan, stars Juliette Lewis, Jonny Weston, and Cybil Shepherd.

Currently, Miller is developing several TV projects and writing her next book.