Rick Miller
Architecture of Creativity
Rick Miller will lead an interdisciplinary masterclass drawn from his training as an architect, and his 30-year career as an independent theatre creator, and frequent collaborator with Robert Lepage/Ex Machina.
Goals:
to challenge pre-existing notions of creativity
to examine the role of the creative individual in society
to foster inter-disciplinary collaboration
to encourage exploration outside of our core disciplines
to engage with emerging technologies in our storytelling
Rick will also draw from his recent residency at U of T’s BMO Lab for Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and AI.
Please join us for a future-facing ride with one of Canada's most renowned theatre innovators.
About Your Instructor
Rick Miller
Rick Miller is a Dora and Gemini award-winning writer / director / actor / musician / educator who has performed in six languages on five continents, and who Entertainment Weekly called “one of the 100 most creative people alive today”. He has created and toured solo shows such as the BOOM Trilogy (BOOM, BOOM X, and BOOM YZ), MacHomer, Bigger Than Jesus and HARDSELL; and family shows with Craig Francis and Kidoons, such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Jungle Book, FRANKENSTEIN: A Living Comic Book, and HANS: My Life in Fairy Tales. With Robert Lepage, he has collaborated on Geometry of Miracles, Zulu Time, Lipsynch, Dragon's Trilogy, and on the film Possible Worlds. Current projects in development include MONEY and The Time Machine. Rick hosts an intergenerational podcast called Xing The Gap, teaches an interdisciplinary class called The Architecture of Creativity, and works with BMO Lab for Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and AI. He lives in Toronto with his partner Stephanie Baptist. www.rickmiller.ca