JEFF MILLS

Jeff Mills is an award winning actor, director, teacher, fight director and musician. He holds an MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory in Denver, CO.  He is best known for his work with the award winning BOXTALES Theatre Company in Santa Barbara. As a core member of BOXTALES, Jeff co-created ten original works in as many years including his direction of OM: An Indian Tale of Good and Evil (The Ramayana) and his portrayal of Odysseus in The Odyssey. Jeff and BOXALES have toured their innovative theater for young audiences throughout the U.S. and in Mexico. Nationally and internationally, Jeff has performed with the Denver Center Theater Company, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, American Folklore Theater, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Door Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Shakespeare Festival, Wooden O Theater, the International City Theater, Pominencer Census (Munich,) the Estudia Busqueda de Pantomima Teatro (Guanajuato, MX) and Theater Mitu/Visthar Center (Bangalore, India.) In California Jeff has acted and/or directed with several companies including Shakespeare Santa Cruz, PCPA Theaterfest, Shakespeare Santa Barbara, Speaking of Stories, Genesis West, Dramatic Women, Lit Moon Theater, Santa Barbara City College and the Santa Barbara Summer Solstice. In 2014/2015 Jeff played the title role in Lit Moon's Hamlet at the National Theater of China in Beijing and the Bitola International Shakespeare Festival in Bitola, Macedonia. Other favorite roles include Macbeth, Katurian in The Pillowman, Edward in Henry VI Part 3, and Carlotta in The Cherry Orchard.  In 2004 Jeff appeared on screen as Tristan in Bill Viola's and Peter Sellars' production of the opera Tristan and Isolde which was performed at the Opera National in Paris, the Disney Hall in Los Angeles the Lincoln Center in New York. In 2010 Jeff founded his own company Proboscis, creating original works of mask, puppet and physical theater exploring Science, Shakespeare, Vaudeville and a podcast/radio variety program called Live from the Piano Kitchen. Proboscis creations include Piezoelectric Love: The (half) Life of Marie Curie (2011) which he co-devised and directed, La La La Strada (2015) which he wrote, directed and played Anthony Quinn and Strap-On, which he co-wrote and directed. From 2007 to 2016 Jeff served on the BFA acting faculty at the University of California Santa Barbara where he taught movement, acting and solo performance. He currently teaches movement at The Theatre School, DePaul University in Chicago. paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. I’m a great place for you to tell a story and let your users know a little more about you.