2026 Workshops: Transformative Actor Training and the Visit
Dr. Budi Miller is the former head of acting at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne (UoM), Australia (the first black person to hold this position at one of the top three drama schools in Australia). He is the co-artistic director of The Theatre of Others; a lead teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, a certified integrative studies practitioner; and an UNESCO designated master teacher of mask work. He teaches acting through Balinese Performing Art Training (BPAT) with Mask Work, Fitzmaurice Voicework, Michael Chekhov, clown, PEM, viewpoints, and Grotowski. He holds a BFA. in theatre from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and a PhD in practice-as-research from the University of Melbourne.
He has been an actor-director-writer-teacher in the United States, Australia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei, Vietnam, Malaysia, India, and Indonesia since 1992. He is a Balinese mask dancer and the first teacher to bring Fitzmaurice Voicework to Denmark, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Malaysia, China, and Indonesia.
He coached Michelle Williams for her Academy Award-nominated performance in Ang Lee’s movie Brokeback Mountain; Yao (Sinners: Warner Bros); Jonathan Majors (Lovecraft Country: HBO, The Harder They Fall: Netflix, Ant-Man III: Marvel, Creed III: MGM, Magazine Dreams: Tall Street Productions); and works extensively with Julian Elijah Martinez (Wu-Tang: An American Saga: Hulu). He has had the privilege of coaching and inspiring actors in many mediums: Broadway, HBO, Marvel Films, Warner Bros, Netflix, Showtime, major international film markets, and theaters around the world.
He has been on the faculties of the Victorian College of the Arts UoM (2017–2023), the Chautauqua Theater Company (2004–2018), and LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore (2009–2017). He has taught at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, the Juilliard School, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, the Actors Center, Wayne State (MFA), the New School (MFA), SUNY Purchase College, University of Southern California, the Bill Esper Studio, Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts, the National Theatre Institute, Howard University, Western Michigan University, the National University of Singapore, the Queensland Theatre Company (Brisbane), Curtin University (Perth), and the Michael Chekhov Conference 2002.
He was the executive director of the International Antonin Artaud Fringe Theatre Festival 2008. He was a featured presenter at the International VASTA conference in Mexico City in 2010 and London in 2014. He was the conference director for the first VASTA conference in Asia (Singapore) in 2017.
Published Work
“Context,” Actor Trainers on Acting for the Twenty First Century, Routledge (2025)
“Artist Text” GABAN, (in process video still) 2022, Brook Andrew, The National 4 Australian Art Now, 2023.
“Whose body is dis: taksu, ase, Black queer intersections, and the awakening of the actor’s spiritual practice,” Miller, A, (2023), Stages of Reckoning: Antiracist and Decolonial Actor Training, Amy Ginther (ed).
Dissertation
“Taksu and Belief in the Imagination: Generating an Exceptional State of Awareness in the Actor” (2024)
Website: budimiller.com