Budi Miller

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  • Geographic Location: BELGIUM, Antwerp (Naedts)
  • Languages: Danish, English
  • Specialization: Movement Acting Corporate Training Diversity/Inclusion Facilitation Healing Presence Private Coaching Public Speaking Shakespeare Speech & Dialects Transgender Coaching Voiceover
  • Institution Name

Lead Teacher (2006)
Fitzmaurice Institute Director of Advanced Training

Melbourne, Australia; Bali, Indonesia; New York; Los Angeles; India; London; Singapore
Phone: +61 413 558 453
Email Address: budi@budimiller.com
Website: http://budimiller.com

 

BUDI MILLER is a Lead Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework and Director of Advanced Training for the Fitzmaurice Institute. He is an UNESCO designated master teacher of mask work. He was the Head of Acting, at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne for 7 years. He has been an actor-director-writer-teacher in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Denmark, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Australia, Malaysia, India, and Indonesia since 1992. He is the first African American ceremonial mask dancer of Bali. He has coached and inspired the work of Emmy and Academy Award nominated performances and seasoned professionals of stage and screen. He coached Yao in the international blockbuster Sinners,  Michelle Williams for her Academy Award nominated performance in Ang Lee's movie Brokeback Mountain, Jonathan Majors Lovecraft Country: HBO, Ant Man III: Marvel Universe, Creed III: MGM, Magazine Dreams: Tall Street Productions, and collaborates with Julian Elijah Martinez (Wu-Tang: An American Saga: Hulu). He has had the privilege of coaching and training actors in many mediums: Broadway, HBO, Netflix, Showtime, major international film markets and theatres around the world, and the Indonesian Film Festival (Judge, 2020).

Published work: 

“Context,” Actor Trainers on Acting for the Twenty First Century, Routledge (2025)

“Whose body is dis: taksu, ase, Black queer intersections, and the awakening of the actor’s spiritual practice,” Miller, A, (2023), Stages of Reckoning: Antiracist and 

Decolonial Actor Training, Amy Ginther (ed); The Lion and the Breath: Combining Kalaripayattu and Fitzmaurice Voicework Techniques Towards a New Cross-Cultural Methodology for Actor Training (Journal of Embodied Research).

"Artist Text" GABAN (2023)

"The Lion and the Breath: Combining Kalaripayattu and Fitzmaurice Voicework Techniques" (2018)

Degrees & Institutions: PhD, University of Melbourne BFA, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU;
Languages: English, French, Indonesian, American Sign Language 


Specializations: Acting, Corporate Training, Diversity/Inclusion, Facilitation, Healing, Movement, Presence, Private Coaching, Public Speaking, Shakespeare, Speech & Dialects, Transgender Coaching, Voiceover