So the Studio Project is enlisting locals and friends to get the fundraising word out in the hope of reaching that $1 million goal.Ī breakdown of the project’s costs includes $200,000 for renovation work on the studio and its relocation, according to figures from the Studio Project. The town’s Highway Department lot - where the building sits today - is about to undergo long-planned site work which will force the dwelling to move again.

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“We have the opportunity to preserve a piece of literary history that will give aspiring writers and others the ability to visit where many of his works were created,” says Marino. Marino says the effort would honor the spirit of Miller’s life and work while making the studio the intellectual center of the community. © Inge Morath / Magnum Photos/©Inge Morath / Magnum Photos It would also create partnerships with local writers’ groups and theater companies.Īrthur Miller's Roxbury writing studio in 1963. The goal is to move the studio to the Minor Memorial Library in Roxbury and create a publicly accessible site that would host writing workshops and lectures, educational programs and eventually residencies for writers. He’s also a board member of the Arthur Miller Studio Project. “The studio was a real focal point of his creative energy in Roxbury,” says Stephen Marino, a Miller scholar and former president of the Arthur Miller Society. Reaching that funding goal is the only way the town will accept the studio as a gift. The group recently launched a GoFundMe page as a first step in raising the $1 million it says it needs to cover renovation and site relocation costs as well as upkeep in perpetuity. The Arthur Miller Studio Project - a nonprofit composed mostly of local residents - is spearheading a campaign to restore the studio to its mid-century glory and open it to the public. Marc Olivieriīut a fundraising effort to rescue the 14-by-22-foot building is underway. And while the playwright’s place in the pantheon of American literature has long been secure, his writing studio remains in limbo.Įfforts are underway to restore and preserve Arthur Miller's Roxbury writing studio, which has fallen into disrepair since the author's death in 2005. It was moved there a few years ago, more than a decade after the writer’s death in 2005, by Rebecca Miller, with the idea of eventually donating it to the town of Roxbury.

His autobiography, Timebends, was also written in the cedar-shingle studio.ĭespite its literary significance, the studio sits in a far less exalted location today: propped up in a roadside municipal parking lot in Roxbury alongside a dumpster and truck plows.

It was also where he wrote screenplays for The Crucible and The Misfits, a film that starred Monroe and Clark Gable. Miller penned more than a dozen stage plays inside that studio, including After the Fall and Playing for Time. Those were some of his most productive years as a writer. “My father wrote in the studio every morning and some afternoons,” says Miller’s daughter, Rebecca, the filmmaker and novelist who profiled her father in the 2018 HBO documentary Arthur Miller: Writer.

Urban legend in limbo