At the height of America's anti-Communist Red Scare, playwright Arthur Miller traveled to Hollywood to work on a screenplay with Elia Kazan, the most important director in Hollywood and on Broadway in the 1950s. Kazan introduced Miller to Marilyn Monroe, then a minor actress and Kazan's lover. Miller and Monroe instantly fell in love; however, Miller was married. Subsequently, the artistic collaboration between Miller and Kazan shattered after Kazan "named names" of ex-Communists before Congress. Miller then wrote THE CRUCIBLE, which condemns informing; Kazan directed ON THE WATERFRONT, which celebrates testifying as heroic, and Monroe went on to become an enduring sex symbol. COLLABORATORS presents the story of the complex relationships among these towering figures from 1950s popular culture.