Interactivity | Experiential Experimentation | Physical Impulse
Bio
Beth Milles is a Director and Associate Professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. Recent directing work includes HEADING INTO NIGHT a clown play about …forgetting (Cherry Arts), AND IF I DON’T BEHAVE THEN WHAT (open fist) TIMEBOMB by Carson Kreitzer (Kitchen Theater) FELT SAD, POSTED A FROG (international pandemic collaboration) FAREWELL CHRIS YEE (NYC). AUGUST OSAGE COUNTY (Hangar Theatre) the world premiere of Iva Brdar’s RULE OF THUMB at the Cherry Arts (Ithaca, NYC) collaborations with award winning poet/playwright/performer Ruth Margraff TEMPTATIONS OF THE FRESH VOLUPTUOUS (a virtual/aural performance evocation (Iowa and Chicago/digital) and LOCKET ARIAS in Chicago (RED TAPE, ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO) Judy Tate’s FAST BLOOD (Civic Ensemble/broadcast nationally/hosted by American Slavery Project). Read More +
Current Projects
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Current Projects 〰️
“HEADING INTO NIGHT”
a clown play about… [forgetting]
Devised by Beth F Milles & Daniel Passer
Directed by Beth F Milles
Running at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles CA through November 17, 2024
“STAGE RAW TOP 10… HUGE IDEAS… EVOCATIVE…a poignant almost one-man, almost wordless vaudeville … superb direction.”
— Steven Leigh Morris, Stage Raw
“EXQUISITE DETAIL… surreal, poignant, clever, and creative.”
— Elaine Mura, Splash Magazines
“UNIQUE… There is poignancy in the simplicity, when talent and conviction express a serious subject matter with comedy and the musicality of movement.”
— Joe Mosquesa, Glamgical
“edge of the sublime”
a handmade chance aria for TEMPTATION : CHORA
written, composed, vocals, art* by Ruth Margraff, director Beth F. Milles, guitar Ignatius Valentine Aloysius, violin Beltrán Del Campo, editing Adam Cooper-Terán and Ruth Margraff
*with painting (in video) by Joe Boudreau 1960-2018
TEMPTATION: CHORA's poem objects are painted antique frames from a neighbor's family tree. Some larger m/other (Apothecary) turns away to resume her own nature. Her subtext grows thick as paint. A ghastly figure (Ambergris) must refuse the madness of loving disaster. Camouflage is “torn like a rose” at this forbidden boudoir.
7:39 min video will be shown at the @Peale Museum closing Jan 19th (Baltimore)