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  • Vernice Miller
  • Thespian - Actor/Director, Professor
  • John Jay College of Criminal Justice, founder & artistic director of A Laboratory for Actor Training and Experimental Theater Company (ALATetc)

Vernice Miller (thespian – actor/director, professor)
Affiliations: John Jay College of Criminal Justice, founder & artistic director of A Laboratory for Actor Training and Experimental Theater Company (ALATetc)
Heritage: Jamaica
Resides: Brooklyn, New York

BIO

Vernice Miller (Actor /Director/Activist/Educator) is an Afro-Caribbean theater artist from Jamaica who has presented theatre and taught internationally for over forty years. With a life-long mission to investigate and awaken the soul of the performer, she co-founded as serves as Artistic Director of A Laboratory for Actor Training Experimental Theatre Company (ALATetc), work that began in Denmark. ALAT is currently in residence at John Jay College of Criminal Justice where Miller also serves as an Adjunct Lecturer and mainstage director.

Miller’s directorial work includes long-term collaborations with jazz musician, Wynton Marsalis, comedienne Hazelle Goodman and Hip-Hop artist Malik Work. Recently she directed Verses at Work for the New York Public Theater Summer of Joy 2021, productions for the 2020 National Arts Festival (South Africa), and Three Women (Break the Silence) in Johannesburg by anthropologist Dr. Omotayo Jolaosho – a performance addressing issues of what it means to find one’s voice amidst gendered repression regarding women’s bodily and sexual autonomy. Miller has performed and co-directed Nomansland for Seth Baumrin’s Subpoetics International (Slovenia, Ukraine, and Poland) as part of an international artist collective that theatrically explores global displacement of peoples due to climate and economic violence. As an actor Miller is the recipient of the London New Play Festival’s Best Actress Award for her solo performance of Medea:Now.
https://www.alatetc.org

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