Bio

Dr Miles O’Neil is a theatre-maker, musician, sound designer, actor, director and Lecturer in Art and Performance at Deakin University. A recipient of the Australian Postgraduate Award, Miles received his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2018. As a founding member of award-winning performance group and band the Suitcase Royale, Miles has been presented in the Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Darwin, and Dark Mofo arts festivals in Australia and internationally in multiple arts festivals in the UK, Ireland, Germany, USA, Canada and New Zealand. Outside of Suitcase Royale, Miles regularly works as a screen actor, voice over artist and a musician and has released three albums of original music with his duo Miles & Simone. His most recent creative work has been the premiere of a new work, Endings, at the 2019 Melbourne Writers Festival and the direction of Giant Adventure for the 2019 Brisbane Festival.