Professor-Director-Choreographer

B.S. in Communication - Kent State University,
M.S. in Dance - University of Oregon,
Ph.D. in Theatre - University of Oregon

Musical theatre, Theatre and Dance History, Dance Aesthetics, Modern and Jazz/Tap dance technique, Mime and Pantomime, Directing, Choreography

Dr. Miller has directed and/or choreographed over 200 musicals, operas, plays and/or dance concerts.   Some of his professional credits include directing and choreographing revivals of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and the rock opera, The Survival of St. Joan, at the Octagon Musical Theatre in NYC, choreographing the outdoor drama, Trumpet in the Land in Ohio and directing and choreographing musicals for the Bowling Green Summer Music Festival such as Godspell, Grease, Joseph and the Amazing Technical Dreamcoat and Little Shop of Horrors.   He also directed and choreographed the Southeastern premier of the Harry Chapin musical, Lies and Legends, in Atlanta.

In addition to musicals, Dr. Miller has directed productions of plays such as Masterpieces (about the Bronte family), Hamlet, Galileo , The Rehearsal at Versailles (Moliere) and The Shepard's Chameleon (Ionesco).   He has worked with playwrights to develop and produce new work, such as Leaning Towards Infinity based on a novel by Austrailian writer Sue Woolfe, Daughters written by Atlanta playwright Shirlene Holmes, Streams written by Los Angeles playwright, Jean Colonos and Crowning Glory written by Brad Bailey and aired on the Razor's Edge Café on Georgia Public television. He has written and directed some of his own work such as the play, Tragedy at Kent State and dance dramas based on the events of 9-11 and the plight of runaways in Atlanta.

Dr. Miller has delivered papers on topics ranging from musical theatre and dance aesthetics to pedagogy and theatre history at conferences held by the Congress on Research in Dance, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Writing Across the Curriculum, American Society for Theatre Research, Southern Humanities, Dance History Scholars, Centre National de la Danse and other academic conferences.  His work has been published in Dance Research Journal, Theatre Journal, Text and Performance Quarterly and Dance Chronicle.  Praeger Press will publish his book on the history of musical theatre dance on the American stage.  Dr. Miller was the Keynote Speaker for the 2006 North Carolina Dance Festival and received the 2007 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the School of Music and Dance at the University of Oregon.  In addition to serving as a faculty member in the Department of Theatre and Dance and as a faculty development associate for the Hubbard Center, Dr. Miller also serves as the President for the Congress on Research in Dance.