Tracy Liz Miller
About
TRACY LIZ MILLER she/her/hers Actor/Director/Producer/
/Educator/Activist/Advocate
My artistic vision is as broad as my experiences. My all-encompassing love of the art form isn’t absolute in that I dislike one form and only practice another. I am equally at home directing a traditional song and dance musical with a cast of 18 (like the recent student production of Sondheim and Lapine’s Into the Woods) as I am in performing in a Shakespeare play or immersing myself in a brand new subtle piece for three actors in development. And that is because I love theatre if it is good theatre with solid craft, skill, technique, and strong intention. And if an audience is engaged, learns something new, is touched by a true emotion, enjoys a collective laugh, or begins to think of matters in a different light, than it is a successful theatre experience.
I believe theatre should challenge those that are comfortable and comfort those that are challenged.
Co-Producing Artistic Director of the Connecticut Theatre Exchange
Previously Co-Founding Producing Artistic Director of The Bridge Initiative: Women in Theatre, previously Associate Producer Vermont Shakespeare Company.
Freelance Directing: The Moors by Jen Silverman at Bridge Street Theatre, Gidion's Knot Stray Cat Theatre/Tempe Center for the Arts, Much Ado About Nothing Southwest Shakespeare Company, How the World Began by Catherine Trieschmann (WAM Theatre) The 12 Dates of Christmas by Ginna Hoben (Class 6 Theatre), Titus Andronicus (Improbable Fiction Theatre Co., NYC).
Selected acting credits: Sarah Weddinton in ROE by Lisa Loomer (WAM Theatre), Molly Castle in Polar Bears, Black Boys, and Prairie-Fringed Orchids by Vincent Terrel Durham and directed by Tiffany Nichole Green (co-pro Capital Rep and Barrington Stage virtual), Alonsa in The Tempest (Saratoga Shakespeare), ASU Gammage Artist in Residence Aaron Landsman originally devised play Rate Your Face (Space 55, Phoenix), Titania/Hippolyta in Midsummer Night’s Dream (Southwest Shakespeare Company), Dora in The Swan by Elizabeth Egloff (Chester Theatre Company), Molly, Dusk Rings a Bell by Stephen Belber (Shaker Bridge Theatre), Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar (Tennessee Shakespeare Co.), Tekla, The Creditors (Miscreant Theatre Co, NYC), Hanna Jelkes, The Night of the Iguana (Penobscot Theatre), Sophia Hawthorne, The Kracken (Push Productions, NYC).
Professional Development Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts along with an Emerging Director Scholarship from the Celebration Barn in Maine to attend their 11 day Devising Intensive.
Producer: Several workshops of new works through Connecticut Theatre Exchange and The Bridge Initiative. MFA Acting Alabama Shakespeare Festival/University of Alabama. BFA Music Theatre Performance, Western Michigan University. Additional Training: Theatrical Intimacy Education, ESPA, Celebration Barn, Theatre Movement Studio, Member AEA/SAG/AFTRA/Associate Member SDC, ATHE New Play Development Workshop, Statera Arts Conference Committee.
Higher Education Current: Full time faculty at University of Rhode Island
Previously: Part-time theatre faculty at SUNY Albany and Western Connecticut State University. Director of Theatre Arts at Chandler-Gilbert Community College in Chandler, Arizona.
Academic Directing: Men on Boats Arizona State University, Good Night Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet Chandler-Gilbert Community College (CGCC), Fiddler On the Roof CGCC, Eurydice CGCC, A Christmas Carol CGCC, Mother Hicks CGCC.
Recipient Innovative Teaching Award KCACTF/ATHEPartner to theatre-maker and educator Kent Burnham. They live with their daughter Vivian in the Northwest Connecticut.
