Michelle Milne
Michelle Milne, actor, movement direction, production manager (she/her), has worked as a performer, director, writer, and educator across the US — including both coasts and regions in between. Her writing/performance includes a solo show about the US-Mexico border (Edge Effects, San Francisco premiere); The Telling of the Bees (Chicago, San Francisco); a duo show with musician Heather Kropf (We Know There Are Oceans) that has toured around the US; and selections of her poetry as “Carmelina du Jour” in Chicago’s Poetry Bordello.
Her directing includes highly physical and immersive productions of Cymbeline: Interrupted (an online interactive experience); The Light Princess; Brontë (Portland Drammy Award, Best Production); Every Brilliant Thing (Tucson MAC nominee, Best Director & Best Production); Macbeth (Two Rivers Prison in Oregon); Julius Caesar; Eurydice; and Romeo & Juliet (SB Tribune Regional Best Production); multiple ensemble-devised productions; and the film No Feeling is Final, by Ted Swartz.
Michelle is a Feldenkrais Method practitioner, a certified Wayfinder Coach, and has taught theatre and movement at colleges, universities, prisons, and jails, and to the general public for 30 years. She is currently in the 2025-26 cohort of the Curriculum in Motion Institute at Jacob’s Pillow. You can read more about her at her website: www.calliopesiris.com