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About CC
Cristina (CC) Elizabeth Miller (she/her)
is a Director, Writer, and Multidisciplinary Theatre and Film Performance Artist from Los Angeles. She is an alumna of the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her B.A. in Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies with a Minor in Creative Writing. CC is an Associate member of SDC, a
Cristina (CC) Elizabeth Miller (she/her)
is a Director, Writer, and Multidisciplinary Theatre and Film Performance Artist from Los Angeles. She is an alumna of the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her B.A. in Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies with a Minor in Creative Writing. CC is an Associate member of SDC, an Associate Founding Member of VirThe Productions, and a Theatre Bay Area-affiliated artist. She has directed, performed, and devised various projects in the Bay Area. Her work focuses on magical realism, feminism, childhood, kinesthetic movement, ensemble, and celebrated self-expression. CC most recently directed and produced the world-premiere production of The Trials of Maud Allan at The Marsh Berkeley and assistant-directed the screen-dance film Unbecoming with Iu-Hui Chua, produced by Asian Improv aRts.
CC has also trained extensively as an actor and dancer. She won Best Actress in a Theatre Performance for her role as Lula in Dutchman (2019), was a supernumerary in The National Theatre’s production of The Lehman Trilogy at A.C.T. (2024), and performed in Dimitri Chamblas' Slow Show in SF (2022). At UC Berkeley, CC performed in Erika Chong Shuch’s The After Party, acted in Christopher Chen's Late Wedding, and assistant-directed Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, receiving The Mark Goodson Prize for Distinguished Theatrical Talent. CC has produced and directed experimental short films, including her film Koraki, which has been nominated and received semi-finalist awards at various international film festivals, including Blow Up Arthouse Chicago, Cannes, Berlin, and Los Angeles. CC Produced and directed a Workshop production of A Dream Play that supported the Student Environmental Resource Center at UC Berkeley, and choreographed and performed an original spoken word dance piece titled Sixth Mass Extinction. In 2023, CC attended Pembroke College at Cambridge University, studying Hitchcock's Auteur Theory, English Literature, and Sustainability.
Some of her other directing credits:
The House of Bernarda Alba (AD) CTE Tam High Drama, Be Seen Be Heard -Noh Inspired, Ondine (LAVC), and films Portrait Portal, Helena, and BumBrow.
CC’s style is FANTASTICAL . EXPRESSIVE . COMPASSIONATE . PHILOSOPHICAL . HUMOROUS . SURREAL . MOVEMENT-DRIVEN . NATURE-CONSCIOUS . INTERACTIVE . SITE-SPECIFIC . COLLABORATIVE
Her current work addresses the roles of performance in constructing our understanding of different communicative identities, both through aesthetic production and the practice of everyday life.