ABOUT MARTHA MILLER

I am a composer, singer, actor, and psychotherapist living in NYC, and I very much enjoy moving back and forth between these various roles and worlds.

I started out in theater (Southern Methodist University), and my short-lived but delightful early career as an actress included such highlights as working with theater legend, Richard Kiley (multi-state tour of A Christmas Carol), performing with Marni Nixon in a new work in NYC, and playing some leading roles in regional musical theater productions.

Soon thereafter, I began an immersive exploration of the inner life through psychotherapy, eventually becoming a psychotherapist myself - a practice I have maintained for close to 30 years. (MSSW, Columbia University, Psychoanalytic Institue of the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health) As a social worker in community mental health, I served as a therapist at The Institute for the Performing Artist, offering low fee therapy to people in the arts in NYC. I also worked in prison programs, including workshops offered to women at Taconic Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills, NY.

Beginning in 2009 while undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, I once again retuned to the creative process as a way to heal from the experience. Thus began the second wave of my artistic life, giving birth to my voice as a composer and creator, as well as a performer. In recent years I have written two song cycles (Household Words, Paper Trail, performed in concert in NYC), written and performed in a film (Chemo Crossroad, multiple film festival recognitions), and created a digital musical chapbook written during the pandemic. (Where You Least Expect Me).

I have had the pleasure of studying music with Alexander Rovang, Christopher North and Richard Armstrong, whose experimental vocal work initiated my writing journey. My best education is from my children, JP and Eleanor who are now thriving young adults.

As a walking enthusiast I hope to one day walk the Camino de Santiago.