Steven D. Miller started writing and performing plays in childhood, playing 17 characters in a cast-devised fairy tale story in his family's basement at the age of nine. Skits he wrote were performed at assemblies in elementary and high school. He studied playwriting at Dartmouth College under John Finch, a mentor to Frank Gilroy (The Subject Was Roses), and holds a post-graduate degree in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in New York City.

Steven has been an active participant in community theatre for over 35 years, usually as an actor. Since 1989, he has been based in metropolitan Atlanta. Atlanta-area productions of his work include a dinner theatre production of The Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Condensed) in Lawrenceville in 2006, a production of Voice-Activated in 2014, and a production of Chestnut Bluff in 2015. As a composer, his music has been heard on Georgia Public Broadcasting as the background for a library promotional segment. As a lyricist, his lyrics have been published in The Sondheim Review as part of a parody contest.