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Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore are two of the most often-produced playwrights in the world. “These two people are a riot!” New York Times.
Billy and Jane met at a high school drama competition in their home state of New Jersey. Until Miss Milmore's death in 2020, they wrote and starred in twenty-three plays together, including the international hit comedy “You’ve Got Hate Mail”; Off-Broadway’s tribute to slapstick comedy “Silent Laughter;” cult favorite “Drop Dead;” the Marx Bros. musical “A Night at the Nutcracker;” and the summer stock perennial farce “Love Sex, and the I.R.S.”
In addition, Billy’s solo play “The Property Known as Garland” starring Adrienne Barbeau broke house records at Off-Broadway’s Actors Playhouse.
Their plays have been produced in thousands of theaters worldwide, including two productions directed by Oscar-winner Olympia Dukakis (“Billy and Jane are funny, outrageous, off the charts writer/performers!”), and one by film legend Burt Reynolds.
All the Van Zandt/Milmore plays are published by Samuel French, Inc., and translated into multiple languages around the globe. “You’ve Got Hate Mail” (which won Mexico’s New Best Play) continues to be an ongoing international hit. “Love, Sex, and the I.R.S.” and “Suitehearts” are still running in Warsaw after six years and recently opened in Russia; “Having a Wonderful Time Wish You Were Her” is running in Romania; “Wrong Window” in New Zealand, Germany, and Turkey; and “The Property Known as Garland” ran three years in Warsaw with Polish icon Hanna Sleszynska.
For television, these award-winning writers produced over three hundred hours of comedy, including “Newhart;” “Martin” which won them a People’s Choice Award and two NAACP Image Awards; “The Hughleys;” “Suddenly Susan” with Brooke Shields; “Daddy Dearest” with Don Rickles and Richard Lewis; “Anything But Love” with Jamie Lee Curtis; “Bless This House” with Andrew Dice Clay and Cathy Moriarty; “The Wayans Bros.;” “Yes, Dear,” “Center of the Universe” with John Goodman and Jean Smart, and “I Love Lucy: The Very First Show” which won them an Emmy nomination.
On the big screen, Billy made his movie acting debut in “Jaws 2,” and appeared in “Taps” with Tom Cruise and Sean Penn; Star Trek: the Motion Picture,” and “A Wake in Providence” written by Billy and Jane, which won the Audience Award at both the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and the Boston Film Festival.
Billy lives in Los Angeles, when he’s not touring the country in the 23rd Van Zandt/Milmore play “The Boomer Boys Musical.”
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