The Visit with Budi Miller
Event description
This laboratory offers an opportunity for Global Majority actors to unlock their powers of free embodied expression onstage.
An internationally renowned teacher, Budi Miller guides actors through five days of rigorous training, drawing on ancient and modern approaches to acting, including Balinese performance traditions, Fitzmaurice Voicework, spiritual practices, clown, and more. These techniques and traditions serve as the foundation for scene study, voice work, and physical storytelling. Working as an ensemble, students will find renewed energy in their performance through movement, mask work, and performing scenes from plays by BIPOC writers.
In addition to liberating their acting practice, students will find a community of fellow actors committed to both deepening their artistry and supporting their colleagues as they navigate the challenges of their profession and the world at large.
Please note that this workshop is designed for BIPOC students who have completed or are pursuing advanced training in acting, such as a conservatory or graduate school program.
Anyone participating in an in-person workshop at Celebration Barn must be fully vaccinated and have received at least one booster shot. For details regarding protocols and policies related to Covid-19 at the Barn please see our 2023 Health and Safety Guidelines.
ABOUT BUDI MILLER
Budi Miller is Senior Lecturer, Head of Acting in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia. He is Co-Artistic Director of The Theatre of Others. He is an associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, a certified integrative studies practitioner, and an UNESCO designated master teacher of mask work. He teaches acting through an amalgamation of Balinese performance traditions with Mask Work, Fitzmaurice Voicework, Michael Chekhov, Clown, Viewpoints, Grotowski and Earl Gister’s techniques. He holds a B.F.A. in theatre from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He is pursuing a practice as research PhD at the University of Melbourne. He has been an actor-director-writer-teacher in the United States, Australia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei, Malaysia, India, and Indonesia since 1992. He is a Balinese mask dancer and the first teacher to bring Fitzmaurice Voicework to Denmark, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Malaysia, China and Indonesia. He coached Michelle Williams for her Academy Award nominated performance in Ang Lee’s movie Brokeback Mountain. He coaches and collaborates with Jonathan Majors (The Last Black Man of San Francisco, Lovecraft Country: HBO) and Julian Elijah Martinez (Wu-Tang: An American Saga: Hulu). He has had the privilege of coaching and inspiring actors in many mediums: Broadway, HBO, Netflix, Showtime, major international film markets and theatres around the world. He has been on the faculties of The Chautauqua Theater Company from 2004-2018, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore 2009-2017. He has taught at Yale School of Drama, The Juilliard School, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, The Actors Center, Wayne State (MFA), The New School (MFA), SUNY Purchase College, University of Southern California, The Bill Esper Studio, Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts, The National Theatre Institute, Howard University, Western Michigan University, The National University of Singapore, The Queensland Theatre Company (Brisbane), Curtin University (Perth), and the Michael Chekhov Conference 2002. He was the Executive Director of the International Antonin Artaud Fringe Theatre Festival 2008. He was a featured presenter at the International VASTA conference in Mexico City 2010 and London 2014. He was the conference director for the first VASTA conference in Asia (Singapore) 2017. Published: The Lion and the Breath: Combining Kalaripayattu and Fitzmaurice Voicework Techniques Towards a New Cross-Cultural Methodology for Actor Training (Journal of Embodied Research).