Rick Miller

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About Rick Miller

Rick Miller is a Dora and Gemini award-winning writer/director/actor/musician/educator who has performed in five languages on five continents and who Entertainment Weekly called “one of the 100 most creative people alive today”. Rick is the host of the XingTheGap podcast, and creator of the BOOM Trilogy of solo stage shows (BOOM, BOOM X, BOOM YZ), and co-creator of the Connection Trilogy with Craig Francis (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Jungle Book, and Frankenstein). Past solo shows include MacHomer, and (w. Daniel Brooks) Bigger Than Jesus and HARDSELL. With Robert Lepage, he has collaborated on Geometry of Miracles, Zulu Time, Lipsynch, and on the film Possible Worlds. He is the artistic director of WYRD Productions and co-creative director of Kidoons, producing innovative works onstage and online with partners from across North America. He sometimes teaches an interdisciplinary class at the University of Toronto called The Architecture of Creativity, and is an artist-in-residence with CABHI (Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation) and BMO Lab in Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and AI. Rick is from Montreal, and lives in Toronto with his wife Stephanie Baptist and their two daughters.