Lydia Miller

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Lydia Miller
Born
Eva Sitteová
OccupationsActress, Director,
Notable work Backlash
Deadly
Jindalee Lady

Lydia Miller is an Australian actress and arts administrators. [1]

Miller featured in the films Backlash , [2] [3] Deadly [4] [5] and Jindalee Lady [6] On the television she featured in R.F.D.S. [7] and Heartland . [8]

Her stage roles include Sophia/Tatiana and Tuovi in Diary of a Madman at the Playhouse and Belvoir St Upstairs Theatre in 1989-90 [9] [10] which she also toured to Moscow in 1992, [11] Cressy in the debut of Radiance at Belvoir St Upstairs Theatre in 1993, [12] [13] Tocky in Capricornia at Belvoir St Upstairs Theatre in 1988, [14] [15] and Deborah Fielding in Corporate Vibes at Drama Theatre, Opera House in 1999, [16] She has directed, with David Kennedy and Rhoda Roberts Close to the Bone at Eora Centre in 1991 [17] and with Mark Gould Gunjes at Belvoir St Upstairs Theatre in 1993. [18]

Miller co organised the National Black Playwrights Conference for 1989 [19] and cofounded the Aboriginal National Theatre Trust. [20] She was a executive officer [21] and director with the Australia Council's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board, [22] project head for the Olymipic Festival of the Dreaming, [23] She ran in local council elections for Leichhardt on the Balmain Development Trust ticket in 1991. [24] [25]

Miller is the daughter of Pat O'Shane and Mick Miller. [26]

References

  1. "Art connects and creates our culture into the 21st century: Lydia Miller", ABC Radio National, 4 April 2020
  2. Lowing, Rob (2 November 1986), "Low on budget and script, high on punch", The Sydney Morning Herald
  3. Murphy, Jim (7 April 1988), "Ghost stories from Spielberg", The Age
  4. Lowing, Rob (23 August 1992), "Deadly, but won't slay fans", The Sydney Morning Herald
  5. Barber, Lynden (13 August 1992), "Australia's ugly face", The Sydney Morning Herald
  6. MacDonald, Dougal (15 May 1993), "Aborigines' soap opera ignores real issues", The Canberra Times
  7. "Television this week", The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 January 1993
  8. Sutton, Candace (20 March 1994), "Ernie Dingo's Heartland", The Sydney Morning Herald
  9. Evans, Bob (27 July 1989), "It's pure Gogol", The Sydney Morning Herald
  10. Larkin, John (1 July 1990), "This diary is theatre at its disturbing best", The Age
  11. Evans, Bob (14 March 1992), "How Belvoir played a Moscow Circus", The Sydney Morning Herald
  12. Bennie, Angela (23 September 1993), "Magic moments too far apart", The Sydney Morning Herald
  13. Payne, Pamela (26 September 1993), "Radiance sifts ashes for Australia's roots", The Sun Herald
  14. Evans, Bob (25 April 1988), "Our Finest Hour", The Sydney Morning Herald
  15. Osborne, Catherine (22 April 1988), "Capricornia revisited", The Sydney Morning Herald
  16. Hallett, Bryce (1 February 1999), "Satiric Vibes fails closer inspection", The Sydney Morning Herald
  17. Bennie, Angela (27 September 1991), "The whole: a sum of the parts", The Sydney Morning Herald
  18. Evans, Bob (9 March 1993), "Narrative lines lack a focus", The Sydney Morning Herald
  19. Portus, Martin (24 October 1988), "The case of the death too early", The Sydney Morning Herald
  20. Reich, Hannah (17 July 2020). "Indigenous theatre leaders on stage representation, storytelling and Australian theatre". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  21. "New Executive Officer Appointed to Australia Council", Torres News, 30 December 1994
  22. Jopson, Debra (14 March 1997), "Storm Erupts over 'Aboriginal' writer", The Sydney Morning Herald
  23. Jopson, Debra (9 August 1997), "One nation or 301 nations", The Sydney Morning Herald
  24. Cook, Danielle (26 August 1991), "Lydia to test her motto in election", The Sydney Morning Herald
  25. Arnold, Ann (5 September 1991), "Old names, new faces", The Sydney Morning Herald
  26. Tarrant, Deborah (12 September 1993), "The Power of Two ...", The Sydney Morning Herald