photo above: Bill Wadman; photos below, Deborah Lopez
Kyra Miller is an actress, writer, and singer. Her work in the theater has included musicals, opera, devised theater, movement pieces, classical theater, storytelling, and currently, experimental puppeteering.
Kyra’s film BlueBeard GasLight is currently on the festival circuit (email for inquiries if you’d like to see the whole thing).
A born & raised Brooklynite, she currently lives in Vermont with her family.
Regional roles include Rebecca in Rags at Theaterworks Silicon Valley (San Francisco/Bay Area Critics Circle nomination for Best Actress in a Musical). She was featured in an article in American Theatre about being a parent in real life while working in the American regional theater. Other professional acting credits: The Time of Your Life at Seattle Rep and A.C.T. in San Francisco (co-production with Steppenwolf, dir. Tina Landau), The Light in the Piazza at the Philadelphia Theater Company with Joe Calarco (Barrymore nomination for best ensemble), A Chorus Line at the 5th Avenue Theater in Seattle, as well as roles at the Pearl in NYC, the Westport Country Playhouse, the Utah Shakespearean Festival, and Portland Stage Company.
Kyra made her Joe’s Pub debut with her piece Chosen (a solo work about quitting acting), with Matt Ray on piano. New York Magazine called her "...a Philip Roth short story come to life (if Philip Roth were a stunning woman)."
She has also performed her stories at the Cornelia St. Café, the Irondale Center, and the Metropolitan Room, and the Bell House. Her last piece, concentrating solely on the music of Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel, and their daddy issues; directed by Barb Jungr.
In New York, she has appeared at HERE in works directed by Hélène Lesterlin and Meiyin Wang, and at Dixon Place, in devised work by Stephan Koplowitz at Dance Theater Workshop and Grand Central Station (with Alexandra Beller), the Bushwick Starr and 100 Grand. She is a founding member of the neo-vaudeville collective The Fabulists, with actor-writers Mary Jane Gibson and Trish Nelson, and a former company member of The Woodshed Collective.
She has taught acting and the Alexander technique at Middlebury College, Tulane University, the American Academy of Dramatic Art, Montclair State University and the University of Washington. Currently, she is on the acting faculty in the Dept of Theater and Dance and on voice faculty in the School of Music at the University of Vermont.
Kyra also narrates audiobooks. (Peek here, here, here and here for samples.)
MFA, University of Washington PATP. Member: AEA. Kyra is also a member of NAAT, the National Alliance of Acting Teachers. AmSAT certified Alexander Technique instrctor.
MORE SINGING:
OPERA: “I Want Magic,” from “A Streetcar Named Desire,” André Previn. With Matt Lobaugh on piano, Scorca Hall.
MUS THTR: “Almost Real,” from “The Bridges of Madison County,” Jason Robert Brown. Matt Lobaugh on piano, Scorca Hall.
POP/CAB: from “The Bruce & Billy Show,” “Brilliant Disguise,” Bruce Springsteen. Matt Ray on piano. Karl Kemp Performance Space.
ART SONG: Tiny excerpt of Knoxville: Summer 1915 (Samuel Barber). Berlin.