Spring 2012!
Happy 2012! Hope all is well! I am gearing up for a really interesting new year of activity, performing and social engagement! How can I do otherwise when we have two states...North Carolina and Minnesota...preparing to write anti-gay bigotry into their State Constitutions in 2012!
I will be doing performance residencies in both MN and NC at University of Minnesota and Univ of North Carolina School of the Arts this winter to take on these nasty amendments. In Minneapolis I will do a performance workshop residency at U of M taking on the MN hate amendment vote in 2012. Let's have MN be the first state in the US to defeat one of these nasty bigoted moves!
I'm totally excited about the Minneapolis and Philadelphia premieres of my fierce and funny performance "LAY OF THE LAND" all about the mess after California wrote homophobia into our State Constitution with Prop 8. (As Minnesota is considering for this year! ) I am also doing a performance workshop project with U of MN exploring the anti-gay amendment that would add bigotry to the MN state Constitution. It is going to be really interesting to explore how performance takes on such a charged issue as the MN hate amendment WHILE it is happening. Very excited do my solo and the project with the MN students.
I will also a performance intensive at Highways Performance Space in L.A. and a big Philadelphia presence with performances at InterAct Theater of Lay of the Land in April followed by a residency at Bryn Mawr College.
Very excited to announce in 2012 I will be spending many weeks in Boulder at University of Colorado to direct a devised original ensemble performance for their season. Will be great to be in Bould for 4 weeks and get a chance to work more intensively with students!
Spring 2012
| January 9-15, 2012 | University of Minnesota | |
| January 13-14 | Open Eye Theatre |
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| February 6-11 | Highways Performance Space Los Angeles, CA |
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| February 21 | University of Southern California | |
| March 7 | Denver University | |
| March 8-10 | University of Colorado | |
| March 19-24 | University of North Carolina School of the Arts | |
| March 25 | Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC |
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| April 5 | CalArts | |
| April 9-15 | InterAct Theatre Philadelphia, PA |
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| April 17 | Muhlenberg College | |
| April 19 | Bryn Mawr College |
Fall 2012
| August 2-5 | Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference Washington, DC |
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| September 27 | California State University Long Beach, CA |
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| September 29-30 | Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX |
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| October 1-21 | University of Colorado |
LAY OF THE LAND only feels more timely in its engagement of marriage equality and the tipping point we are reaching around gay civil rights in this country. Very much the piece I would want to be doing at this juicy time as this issue races all over the country from NY to Minnesota.
Great review in L.A. TIMES! David Nichols writes, "Miller's LAY OF THE LAND enters territory as exhilarating as it is meaningful. Miller lays out his unapologetically renegade viewpoint with exemplary economy and sardonic humor. Marriage equality is the thematic undercurrent against which reminiscences of various activist and performance landmarks coalesce into something larger than the sum of their considerable parts. The final apotheosis stands high in Miller's canon, which, together with the overarching relevance, makes Lay of the Land a vivid, must-see achievement."
A couple more things:
- A video trailer for LAY OF THE LAND!
- Lovely HUGE review in Chicago Tribune
- NEW YORK TIMES: "Lean, personal and deceptively canny...the reason LAY OF THE LAND endears is that Mr. Miller is not only self-aware, but is also the rare self-involved, political performance artist whom you wouldn't mind being stuck sitting next to on a subway train."
- Super smart and informed piece by Michael Feingold in Village Voice on LAY OF THE LAND and LET THEM EAT CAKE
- Great interview in SF Chronicle.
cheers, Tim