Nicki Miller Artistic Production Portfolio

Director, Full Length Devised Work:

Sticks & Stone

Premiere: The Performing Garage in Soho NYC on August 8-9, 2022. 

Counterweight aerial dance, physical theatre, puppetry, aerial puppetry, poetry, dance, and projection.

Co-created and performed by Nicki Miller & Benjamin E. Oyzon
Author: Nicki Miller
Aerial & Puppet Rigging Designer: Benjamin E Oyzon
Stage Manager: Ethan Mast
Original Song: John Oyzon
Poster Design: Connor McMurtrie

Production Photos: Effy Grey

ASYLUM

(Only Child Aerial Theatre) 

Premiere: 2015/2016 season at Burning Coal Theatre in Raleigh , NC
Festival presentations: Circus Now: International Contemporary Circus Arts Exposure (2017)
Interdisciplinary poetic storytelling with aerial acrobatics, live music, projection, and shadow work. 

Authors: Kendall Rileigh & Nicki Miller
Director: Nicki Miller
Choreographed by the company
Primary Composer: Walken Schweigert
Original Song: Sophie B. Hawkins
Costumes: Jan Chambers
Sound: Laura Sisskin Fernandez
Projections: Jesse Garrison
Aerial Rigging: Benjamin E. Oyzon
Creative Collaborators: Sloan Bradford, Rowen Haigh, Deon Releford-Lee, Mikaela Saccoccio, Shannon Spicer, Samantha Sterman, and Craig Whitehouse
Production Photos: Andrew T. Foster
 

TWOFOLD

(Only Child Aerial Theatre)

Performed in an intimate, site-specific loft for less than 40 people per evening, Aerial dance, visual theatre, physical comedy, live music, and overhead projection/shadow puppetry,

Developed by Nicki Miller and Cassady Rose Bonjo
Directed by Nicki Miller
Devised and Choreographed by Nicki Miller and the Ensemble
Featuring: Cassady Rose Bonjo, Šara Stranovsky, Gil Verrelli, and Ashley Winkfield.
Original Music by Šara Stranovsky and Ashley Winkfield
Production Designer: Cassady Rose Bonjo
Aerial Rigger and technical director: Benjamin E. Oyzon
Production Manager: Ayla Weisz
Creative Collaborator: Kenneth Stephen Neil
Production Photos: Chelsea Robin Lee & Justin Nöhre

Choreographer/Movement Director: 

The World is Round

Ripe Time | BAM Fisher
Based on a children’s book by Gertrude Stein 
Music and Lyrics:  Heather Christian 
Director: Rachel Dickstein 
Set Design: Mimi Lien 

Aerial Choreographer: Nicki Miller
Costumes: Ilona Somogyi 
Lights: Jiyoun Chang 
Projection: Hannah Wasileski 
Sound: Jane Shaw
Performers: Blake DeLong, Hannah Heller, Grace McLean, Kristen Sieh

100 Feet in the Air 

(in process at Sarah Lawrence College, production photos available after 11/11/23)

Writer and Director: by K. Stanger
Movement Director: Nicki Miller
Intimacy Coordinator: Lauren Reinhard
Costumes: Alissa Mills
Lights: Britney Ward
Sound: Citrine Weir
Stage Manager: Rory Montgomery
Asst. Stage Manager: Mystery Skelton
Production Manager: Mia Harada

REEL of selected works:

(includes footage from projects listed above and others)