G. Riley Mills

G. Riley Mills is an Emmy Award-winning playwright based in Chicago. His musical, The Hundred Dresses (co-written with Grammy-nominee Ralph Covert), was commissioned by Chicago Children's Theatre and premiered off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York City. His play Lift Every Voice (co-written with Willie Round) won the AATE Distinguished Play Award in 2022. Their film Broke Down Drone has played film festivals around the world and won Best Narrative Short at the Chicago Indie Film Festival and Best of the Fest at the Chain NYC Film Festival. Mills has twice been awarded the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work for his plays Sawdust and Spangles and Streeterville, both co-written with Covert. In 2022, he won an Emmy Award (Chicago/Midwest) for The Lost Story of Emmett Till: Trial in the Delta, and in 2023 he won his second Emmy Award (Chicago/Midwest) for The Lost Story of Emmett Till: Then and Now, both co-written with Round.