PATRICIA MILLER Theatre. Live Arts. Film. Education
http://www.pollinatorarts.org
Patricia Miller is based in London/San Francisco. Patricia brings a diversity of experience and training to theatre directing, teaching and acting. She is interested in the dynamic between text work and physical theatre techniques. She works in many genres raging from classics to new play development, modern works and live arts genres (performance, circus, ritual and opera). Her work has been seen all over the UK, including Edinburgh premieres, Europe and California. Winner of Theatre Bay Area’s Titan Award. Currently teaching DIRECTING and PLAY CREATION at BERKELEY REP SCHOOL OF THEATRE.
Master of Fine Arts Master of Arts, A.B.D. Batchelor of Arts Certificate Program
Theatre Directing
Directing for Theatre and Media Studies Drama, English and American Studies Film Production and Broadcasting
EDUCATION and AFFILIATIONS
University of California, Davis, CA Hull University UK
Manchester University, UK
City College, San Francisco
INFLUENCES AND ADDITIONAL TRAINING
Text based, traditional theatre
Voice and Text: Cicely Berry; Fitzmaurice technique Melanie Julian: Linklater/ Neil Worden
Text and Dramaturgy : Peter Lichtenfels; Sarah Pia Anderson; Lynette Hunter; David Mayer. Stanislavski technique: Bella Merlin; Bess Jones and Mollie Hudson Studio School London Playwriting: Phillip Kan Gotanda, Liz Duffy Adams, Marcus Gardley.
Design: John Iacovelli; Thomas Munn; Maggie Morgan
Physical Theatre and Creating Devised Work
Theatre Anthropology: Eugenio Barba; ISTA 1999; ISTA 2005 at Grotowski Center, Wroclaw
Physical Theatre Ron Campbell; archetypal mask and clowning: John Wright, Trestle Company, LeCoq graduates Suzuki and Viewpoints: Ellen Lauren and Barney O’Hanlon of SITI
Biomechanics: Gennadi Bogdanov ; Mark Jackson
Commedia Del Arte too many to mention since 1985!
Experimental physical theatre: Mladen Materic (Sarajevo); Kasha Sadowski (Krakow); Magdalena Project memb
Choreography and Composition: John Jasperse, Della Davidson
Devising for the avante guard: Rinde Eckert
Ritual Theatre and Experiential Leadership: Jules Beckman/Drumbody; Paradox Pollock; Pepe Ozan; Starhawk, Suzanne Sterling,
Social Justice
Social Justice Theatre: Guillermo Gomez Pena; Laurel Caravaggio, Boal Ensemble, Larry Bogad
Improvisation
Contact Improvisation: Sean Seward; Keith Hennessey; 848 Collective
Playback Theatre/Improvisation: Nan Crawford and Pacific Playback Theatre (ensemble member for 4 years) Impro: Keith Johnston; Fireball Improv; Bats alumni; Robert Hickling
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PATRICIA MILLER
THEATRE DIRECTION
Pollinator Arts @ Marine’s Memorial, Union Square, SF Pollinator Arts at Tides Theatre, Union Square, San Francisco
Exit Theatre: Pollinator vs Popcorn
Ashby Stage, Berkeley, CA
Teatro ZinZanni, San Fracisco: Asst. Director Mondavi arts Center, Davis, CA
Main Theatre, UC Davis, CA: Asst. Director
Wyatt Pavilion, UC Davis, CA
Z Space/ Magic New Play initiative * Staged reading Magic Theatre, World premiere: Asst.Director
Z Space/ Magic New Play initiative
Magic Theatre, San Francisco *
Magic Theatre, San Francisco*
Magic Theatre, San Francisco *
Magic Theatre, San Francisco *
Magic Theatre, San Francisco*
Exit Theatre and UCSC, tour
Mountview Theatre School, London
Mountview Theatre School, London
SomArts Theatre, San Francisco
New Conservatory Theatre Center Tour
University of California, Riverside
Mountview Theatre School, London
Mountview Theatre School, London
Quick Vic @ Duke’s Head, London
“Best Classical Production” Time Out nominated Edinburgh Fringe Festival: “Best of the Fest”
London Sunday Times + Channel Four TV
Etcetera Theatre, London
London’s One Person Play Festival winner
Riverside Studio Festival, London Gulbenkian Arts Centre, Hull, UK Gulbenkian Arts Centre, Hull, UK Gulbenkian Arts Centre, Hull, UK Contact Theatre, Manchester, UK Contact Theatre, Manchester, UK
“Best Musical” Manchester Evening News
Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea UK
Finalist National Drama Festival
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Patricia Miller
Peter Denyer Patricia Miller Deedee Kirkwood Nichols/Davis Shakespeare adapted Phillip Kan Gotanda Tom Morris
Julie Herbert Edna O Brien Soren Oliver Edna O Brien
Cinderella, a Musical Family Panto Cinderella
Sugar High: A Brechtian B!tchslap Toke
How to Survive the Apocalypse
The Winter’s Tale
Angry Red Drum, # 5
Nights at The Circus, Angela Carter St Joan & the Dancing Sickness Tirna Na Nog
Decaying Orbits
Country Girls
Lost and Found
Now That’s What I Call A Storm Rust
In Search of a Better Life with Elvis The Fever
Paradise Lost
Waiting for Lefty
Anne Marie Healey
Kirsten Greenidge
Kato McNickle
Wally Shawn
Clifford Odetts
Clifford Odetts
Shakespeare
1998-01 Patricia LoughreyInner Circle **
Brecht Wedekinde Wertenbaker Shakespeare
Sue Casson
Shelia Goff
Phoebe Brooker Carol Churchill Strindberg Strindberg Sarah Daniels Kander& Ebb
Miller [email protected]
Julius Caesar
Mother Courage Spring Awakening Our Country’s Good Love’s Labors' Lost
Two Tigers
Not Here, Not Now
Decision Pure and Simple Cloud Nine
The Father
The Dance of Death Masterpieces
Chicago, the musical
The Crucible
PATRICIA MILLER Dael Orlandersmith/P Miller I, Tiresias
DIRECTING FOR YOUTH
Berkeley Rep Thrust Stage
Berkeley Rep Thrust Stage
Berkeley Rep Roda Theatre
Berkeley Rep Thrust Stage
Redwood High School, Ensemble Theatre, Marin, CA Gender reversed, female production
Alex Moggridge Alex Moggridge David Meyers Shakespeare
Under
Pandora
Pearls Before Swine Julia Caesar [sic]
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Brecht
Shakespeare
Goldoni
Moliere
Devised
Marlowe
Shakespeare
Adapted
Lorca
Moliere
Brecht
Devised
Anthology
**For three successive years I cast, directed, toured Inner Circle with the cast, adapting the material to current cultural and medical updates, led discussions and workshops, coordinated technical details with venue and liaised with school staff and health workers
Tempest
Comedy of Errors
Dream, 12th Night,
Caucasian Chalk Circle Midsummer’s’ Nights’ Dream Servant of Two Masters Tartuffe
Sexuality!
Dr Faustus
Much Ado about Nothing Wizard of OZ
House of Bernarda Alba Loves the Best Doctor
He who says Y es/Us and Them Flashpoints: Balkan War
A Girl’s Best Friend
Studio School, London, Guildhall exam board National Theatre Challenge
Studio School, London, Guildhall exam board
DRAMATURGY, PROFESSIONAL WRITING and “NEW WORKS”
The Magic Theatre Literary Selection Committee and staged readings 1998- till present.
Direct first readings for artistic director & producers.
Play reader Royal Court Theatre, Paines Plough, Manchester Royal Exchange, International Mobil Prize, Chester Gateway, West End. Film script development: No One Sleeps (Independent film Berlin festival, LA selected) also for Diana Films.
Literary staff for New Playwrights Trust, London’s One Person Play Festival, Bristol Express Theatre of New Works. Manchester Umbrella Company: producer of UK touring shows and Edinburgh Fringe.
Theater & Dance reviewer: The Independent National Newspaper, The List (Scots arts journal), City Limits (London)
Contributing Editor: Women In Fringe (In-depth coverage of all Edinburgh arts festivals theatre, film, jazz, visual arts
Most current self penned plays produced, in production
Marriage Material
Cinderella, the panto
Cobbled
Senora Julie and Shostakovic Play ( working title) in workshop
Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, Osher Marines Memorial Theatre for Panto SF! Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, Roda Theatre
California Shakespeare Festival Education Program San Francisco Shakespeare Festival Youth Training California Shakespeare Festival Education Program New Conservatory Theatre Centre, San Francisco New Conservatory Theatre Centre, San Francisco New Conservatory Theatre Centre, San Francisco Gateway High School: Commedia, comedy movement Umbrella TC: Regional UK tour, at risk youth Umbrella, UK: high school tour and workshop Umbrella, UK: high school tour and workshop Umbrella, UK: Centers for developmentally disabled Studio School, London + regional competitions Studio School, London, Guildhall exam board
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PATRICIA MILLER TEACHING for ADULTS BERKELEY REP SCHOOL OF THEATRE, BERKELEY
Directing class for adults (from February 2012 to present)
BERKELEY CITY COLLEGE
Introduction to acting. Theory, practice and performance for novice adults. Credits transfer to UC Berkeley.
UC BERKELEY EXTENSION, ALBANY ADULT SCHOOL
Theatre Appreciation; Behind the Scenes
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS: THEATRE AND DANCE DEPARTMENT
LECTURES: Theatre Directing for Non Majors; Brecht; Principals of Realism; American Realism;
TEACHING: Theatre Directing; Performance and Culture; Introduction to Dramatic Art surveying and theory; Understanding Performance; Shakespeare on Film
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE
As visiting professor taught undergraduate class on Brecht, his influences on and of 20th century theatre and parameters, relevance of contemporary political theatre forms and theatre of the disenfranchised. We spanned cultural and theatre history, popular performance forms and present day legacy. I directed Main stage production of “Mother Courage” concurrently
MOUNTVIEW THEATRE SCHOOL, LONDON
Classic American Theatre: directed Odetts within a research context exploring Sociopolitical background, the influence of Stanislavski, Strasberg, Hagen, 1930’s movements in world theatre.
History of Theatre: Greeks through Beckett. Developed curriculum of academic research and practical applications, both traditional and experimental. The stylistic and intellectual challenges of seminal classical texts, writers and theatre movements. Work included text, physicalization, and exploration of cultural and political influences. Student driven seminars also covered experimental, musical and classical Asian theatre.
Contemporary Political theater survey: an exploration of texts, forms and the aesthetic roots culminating in powerful, informed workshop productions and discussions.
Core acting skills I was on the acting and directing staff for 1st year through post graduates, including verse, language, voice, dialect, improvisation, characterization, cold reading and audition technique.
For designers and technicians: basic script breakdown and analysis, working with the director + production team. History of theatre and cultural movements, development of style, architectural and special development.
CITY COLLEGE, SAN FRANCISCO
Lecture demonstrations for film directors on approaches to acting, casting and working with actors.
UNIVERSITY OF HULL
Masters degree ABD: directed undergraduate productions, assisted with undergrad performance requirements. Thesis research from one on one interviews with the leading UK female theatre directors and artistic directors including Deborah Warner, Sara Pia Anderson, mainstream and avante- guard. Special studies on postwar German theatre, traditional Japanese forms and Commedia Del Arte.
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PATRICIA MILLER TEACHING for YOUTH
BERKELEY REP SCHOOL OF THEATRE
Summer Intensive Play Creation: developed, directed 4 new commissions collaborating with playwright, students and other faculty. Middle School and Teen Intensives. 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014.
AURORA THEATRE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Ran the education department for major repertory theatre 2004-8, creating syllabi of workshops, pre-show study materials and running interactive talkbacks for middle school to college level students. Workshops created have included Greek Drama 101, Actor’s toolbox, Discovering Character; Actor’s table work; Technical theatre.
Create dramaturgy aimed at youth. Related work to California standards in education. Grant writing.
Workshops comparing actor’s approach from “method” psychological realism to physical theatre techniques.
CALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
Directed youth productions and taught Physical approaches to character collaborating with other directors.
Taught physical theatre, movement, commedia, ensemble skills, and rhythm, feldenkreiss for summer conservatory.
SAN FRANCISCO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL THEATRE
Directed student performances and taught full syllabus specializing in text verse skills and theatre history.
NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE OF GREAT BRITAIN
Taught workshops on text, Shakespeare’ s resonances and physical approach to character.
STUDIO SCHOOL, LONDON and NEW CONSERVATORY THEATRE CENTRE SAN FRANCISCO
Highly respected, disciplined conservatory programs for young actors. Former students now at Royal National theatre, RSC, BBC, RADA, Oxford, Cambridge, NYU. Students studied theatre fundamentals, rehearsed full-scale productions, and prepared for RADA, LAMDA, Guildhall acting and voice exams (individual and ensemble). Awarded at regional and national festivals inc Royal National Theatre challenge. Foundation skills includes solo, duo, ensemble work; improvisation, devising material, vocal production, dialect work, characterization, mask, movement, commedia del arte, stagecraft for classic, contemporary and devised.
EDUCATIONAL TOURING WORKSHOPS
Facilitated practical workshops in regional tours of UK (Marlowe, Shakespeare, Moliere)+ controversial contemporary topics
GATEWAY HIGH SCHOOL
Taught Playback Improv to alternative students. Assisted Amy Mueller’s “Tartuffe”, special workshop on commedia and physical comedy. Basic Playback techniques.
DEVISED WORK Productions created with youth on war, sexuality, friendship, protest for various groups including National Theatre Challenge and
Manchester Umbrella Spoke Theatre.
Pacific Playback Theatre member of production and performance ensemble since 2002. Very specific improvisational structure based on retelling the audience’s stories back to them. PPT creates improvisational performances and workshops for youth, corporate and non-profit groups including Mendocino Youth Leadership Council and Microsoft.
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PATRICIA MILLER MANAGEMENT SKILLS Budgeting, HR, Production Coordinator for feature films for 8 years; sole proprietor Kinetic Productions Film crew and casting
Research and Granting Coordinator and Marketing, Theatre Bay Area 2012-13: CA$H and Performing Arts Assistance Program; lead researcher for national Intrinsic Impact survey; manager of Bay Area Arts and Cultural Census or The Big List.
Production/Event Supervision countless theatre shows or touring productions; excellent relationship with designers and technicians; SFUSD Young at Art Festival with De Young
Casting director: freelance 12 years including Magic Theatre, Aurora, NCTC, Playwrights Foundation, Box Car, Mystic Family Circus, film/media and events
Fundraising: Pollinator Arts; Aurora Theatre Education; Counterpulse Bootcamp, Theatre Bay Area Staff postition
Marketing and Press Relations: commission of original art work, successful copy writing, photo shoots. Examples on request.
Campaigns Pollinator Arts’ Cinderella, restored/expanded The Big List (Bay wide audience development research).
PROFESSIONAL ACTING
Credits include major equity theatres across Bay Area and UK, film, TV and voiceover. Represented by Stars.
ROLE
Hedwig 5
Bride’s Servant/ Death Peg
Rima (u/s)
2001-05 Performance Ensemble
2001- 08Performance Ensemble Lady Capulet
Frano Maud/Lin *Sandra Mary
V arious V arious *Marie Dr Simon
NOTE:
PLAY
Hedwig and the Angry Inch Blood Wedding FamilyButchers **
Dolly West’s Kitchen** Pacific Playback Theatre Mystic Family Circus Romeo and Juliet
Mrs. Sweeney
Cloud Nine
Beautiful Thing
Women Of Lockerbie
Little Grey Home in the West Bosnia play
Bold Girls
Golden Age
** American Premieres
COMPANY
DIRECTOR
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Tales of Saki
UBU ROI
Much Ado
Cabaret
Plough and the Stars Chicago
Winters Tale
Edinburgh Festival
Contact Theatre, Manchester UK Tour, Manchester Umbrella Contact Theatre, Manchester Taliesin Arts Center, Swansea Edinburgh: NSTC
Shaw Theatre, London
Boxcar
Shotgun Players
MagicTheatre
Theatreworks
TJT; Bill Graham, various
Cirque Du Soleil Gala/ MGM Grand, Las Vegas
Theatreworks
Magic Theatre
New Conservatory New Conservatory Playwrights Foundation Magic: festival
Robert Kelly Ginny Reed Arturo Catricala Ed Decker
Amy Mueller Ginny Reed John Warren
L Naomi Gibson Ric Prindle
Magic: festival
Viaduct Theatre
TheatreFirst
* Awarded by Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle
SELECTED ACTING: UK
Nick Olivero Evren Okrin PaulWhitworth Robert Kelly Nan Crawford
Lillian Hellmann V arious
Pa Ubu Margaret/Dogberry Sally Bowles Bessie Burgess Mama Morton Paullina
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? Grove Theatre, London
THEATRE DIRECTION AND PROFESSIONAL WRITING
Directing for Adults, Directing for Youth,Professional Arts Writing
TEACHING for ADULTS
- Ashby Stage, Berkeley, CA
- Teatro ZinZanni, San Fracisco: Asst. Director
- Mondavi Arts Center, Davis, CA
- Main Theatre, UC Davis CA: Asst. Director
- Wyatt Pavilion, UC Davis CA/US Premiere
- University of California, Riverside
- Z Space/ Magic New Play initiative *
- Magic Theatre, World premiere: Asst.Director
- Magic Theatre, San Francisco Staged Readings
Anne Marie Healey Now That’s What I Call a Storm
Kirsten Greenidge Rust
Kato McNickle In Search of a Better Life with Elvis
- Exit Theatre and UCSC, tour
- SomArts Theatre, San Francisco
- Mountview Theatre School, London
Clifford Odetts Waiting for Lefty
Wedekinde Spring Awakening
Wertenbaker Our Country’s Good
- Quick Vic @ Duke’s Head, London
- Edinburgh Fringe Festival: “Best of the Fest”London Sunday Times + Channel Four TV
- Etcetera Theatre, London London’s One Person Play Festival winner
- Riverside Studio Festival, London
- Gulbenkian Arts Centre, Hull, UK
Strindberg The Father
Strindberg The Dance of Death
- Contact Theatre, Manchester, UK
- Kander and Ebb Chicago, the musical Best Musical Manchester Evening News
- Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea UK
DIRECTING FOR YOUTH
- Berkeley Rep Roda Theatre
- Berkeley Rep Thrust Stage
- Redwood High School, Ensemble Theatre, Marin, CA
Gender reversed, female production
- California Shakespeare Festival Education Program
- San Francisco Shakespeare Festival Youth Training
- New Conservatory Youth Aware Tours
Patricia Loughrey Inner Circle For three successive years I cast, directed, toured Inner Circle with the cast, adapting the material to current cultural and medical updates, led discussions and workshops, coordinated technical details with venue and liaised with school staff and health workers.
- New Conservatory Theatre Centre, SF CA
Shakespeare Midsummer’s’ Nights’ Dream
Goldoni Servant of Two Masters
- Gateway High School SF CA Commedia, comedy movement coach
- Umbrella TC: Regional UK tour, at risk youth
- Umbrella, UK: high school tour and workshop
Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing
- Umbrella, UK: Centers for developmentally disabled
- Studio School, London + regional competitions
- Studio School, London, Guildhall exam board
Brecht He who says Yes/Us and Them
Devised A Girl’s Best Friend
- National Theatre Challenge
DRAMATURGY, PROFESSIONAL WRITING and “NEW WORKS”
Serves on the Literary selection committee at The Magic Theatre 1998- till present.
Direct first readings for artistic director & producers.
Play reader for Royal Court Theatre, Paines Plough, Manchester Royal Exchange, International Mobil Prize, Chester Gateway, and West End.
Film script development: No One Sleeps (Independent film Berlin festival, LA selected) also for Diana Films.
Literary staff for New Playwrights Trust, London’s One Person Play Festival, Bristol Express Theatre of New Works. Manchester Umbrella Company: producer of UK touring shows and Edinburgh Fringe.
Actor participant at festivals at Magic; Bay Area Playwrights Foundation; Will Dunne, Play brokers, Z space work
Theater & Dance reviewer: The Independent National Newspaper, The List (Scots arts journal), City Limits (London)
Contributing Editor: Women In Fringe (In-depth coverage of all Edinburgh arts festivals theatre, film, jazz, visual arts)