Heath Miller

Training

2006 - Bachelor of Performing Arts (Directing) @ WAAPA 

2001 - Curtin University of Technology
Bachelor of Arts in English (Major: Theatre Arts, Minor: Creative Writing)


Theatre

As Director:

Donald Short and Sweet '10  
Red Emerging Writers Festival '09  
Kanat and the Red Army Short and Sweet '08  
Thrilling Hostage Melodrama at High Speeds with Pineapple Short and Sweet '07  
4 x 2 Dante’s Minnie Fiesta  
Nazanin Short and Sweet '06  
The Caucasian Chalk Circle WAAPA  
The Gun in History WAAPA  
Titus Andronicus WAAPA  
Ionesco’s Macbett John Curtin College of the Arts  
Massage Hayman Theatre Company  
Tests Hayman Theatre Company  
Writers are Liars Hayman Theatre Company  
24hr Play Festival 05 BSX Theatre & ARTRAGE  
24 Play Festival 04 BSX Theatre  

 

As Assistant Director:

King Lear (Attachment) MTC dir. Simon Phillips
Batboy WAAPA dir.Jason Langley
The Tempest WAAPA dir. Kate Cherry
Bobbin Up WAAPA dir. Rhys McConnochie

 

Short Films

Contact Appointment Wildparticle Films  
Frosting WAAPA  
Fly on the Wall Buzzing Bee  

 

Awards & Achievments

- Runner Up Best Director for “Kanat and the Red Army” Short and Sweet 08

- Special Mention Best Production for “Kanat and the Red Army” Short and Sweet 08

- Winner Best Comedy for “Thrilling Hostage Melodrama at High Speeds with Pineapple” Short and Sweet 07

- Nominated for Best Newcomer Equity Guild Awards 2003

- 1999 Award for Technical Excellence in Sound Design
(Hayman Theatre, Curtin University of Technology)                                

- First Place in the sci-fi Category of the 1998 SwanCon Film Festival
(Director and Producer “Fly on the Wall”)

 

Skills

Advanced Stage combat certification by both the Australian Society of Fight Directors and the British Academy of Dramatic Combat.

Photography, puppetry and circus.

 

Other Training

Zen Zen Zo Theatre Company, Brisbane - Stomping Ground and Masterclass 2009 (Tutors – Simon Woods and Lynne Bradley)

Zen Zen Zo Theatre Company - Melbourne Stomp 2008 (Tutors – Lynne Bradley and Mark Hill)

National Institute of Circus Arts – Acrobatics and Aerial Course 2007

British Academy of Dramatic Combat, London - Summer Intensive 2003

The Circus Space, London – Circus Intensive 2003

Total Theatre – Creative Movement Course 2002 – (Tutor – Annie Stainer)

Society of Australian Fight Directors – Western Combat Intensive 2002 (Tutors – Andy Fraser, Nigel Poulton)

Australian Circus Festival – Masterclass 2001