DIRECTING
Highlights: In the Green
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Zenith, a One Minute Horror Film
Official Selection of the 2021 NYX Horror
13 Minutes of Horror" Festival
Highlights: Our Feet Off the Ground
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Highlights: Our Town
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Highlights: A Sad Tale's Best for Winter
Highlights: Puffs
PHOTOS
Promo Photos by Andrea Decker
Production Photos by Francis Gacad
In the Green by Grace McClean
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Directed by Anna Miles at The Wayward Artist
The West Coast Premiere of In The Green by Grace McLean, directed by Anna Miles, ran at The Wayward Artist in Santa Ana, CA from April 14, 2023 to April 30th, 2023 at the Grand Central Art Center.
In the Green tells the liberally and expressively adapted origin story of one of Medieval history’s most prolific voices: Hildegard von Bingen. Before she became known as one of the first recorded female leaders of her age through her work as a healer, mystic, composer, and finally a saint, Hildegard von Bingen was a little girl locked in a cloister’s cell with her mentor, Jutta von Spondheim, after demonstrating a preternatural sensitivity to the world around her.
This poetic and sonically sophisticated event, punctuated by elements of immersive storytelling, illustrates the divergent journeys of two exceptional women broken apart by trauma as they struggle to wrench themselves back together at any cost.
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Promo Photos by Anna Miles
Production Photos by Zoart Photography
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
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Directed by Anna Miles at the Woodland Opera House
Anna Miles' radical re-imagination of Thornton Wilder's Our Town ran at the historic Woodland Opera House in Woodland, CA from January 28 - February 20, 2022
A landmark in American drama, Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town tells the story of a small town at the turn of the century, Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. Narrated by the “Stage Manager”, we follow the Gibbs and Webb families, residents of Grover’s Corners, through twelve years of life changes — from the mundane in Act I, “Daily Life,” to the romantic in Act II, “Love and Marriage,” to the bittersweet in Act III, “Death and Eternity.” The play was revolutionary when it was first produced in 1938, challenging the conventions of realism and theatrical storytelling- this 2022 production honored that traditional of innovation and breathed fresh life and fresh revolution into this old classic, reworking the staging and storytelling to challenge the theatrical conventions of today. While Our Town is often professed to be a play about “universal truths,” a story about “all of America,” there’s only so much limited truth a story about a small white East Coast town in the 1900s can offer modern audiences. But with the help of a dedicated and diverse ensemble of creators, Anna and the Woodland Opera House reckoned with the text to tell a powerful modern tale of the complications of nostalgia and the need to continue always moving forward in our social progress.
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Promo Photos by Andrea Decker
Production Photos by Anna Miles
Our Feet Off the Ground
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Created and Directed by Anna Miles
Choreographed by Emily-Mae Kamp
additional choreography by Lizzy Gimple and devised by cast
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Produced by Beating of Wings: An Artist Collective
Our Feet Off the Ground, a brand new devivsed, immersive feminist dance show drawing from the stories of Hans Christian Andersen, ran for three performances only in May 2024 at site-specific outdoor locations: two shows at Hillcrest Park in Fullerton on Friday May 24th and Sunday May 26th, and one show at La Tierra de la Culebra park in Highland Park on Saturday May 25th. In keeping with Beating of Wings' tradition, admission to all shows was completely free. The show darkly reimagined such classic tales as The Little Mermaid, The Red Shoes, and The Wood Nymph,, intersecting their language and themes with the medium of dance as a vehicle for reckoning with the perils and passions of inhabiting a female body. With choreography and narrative developed through collaborative devising, Our Feet Off the Ground explores the expansiveness of desire and the social punishments incurred when desire is deemed too much.​​
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