Tim's creative work as a performer and writer explores the artistic, spiritual and political topography of his identity as a gay man. Tim's performances have been presented all over North America and Europe. He is the author of the books Shirts & Skin and Body Blows. His solo theater works have been published in the play collections O Solo Homo and Sharing the Delirium.
Since 1990, Miller has taught performance in the theater dept at UCLA and the dance program at Cal State LA. He is a co-founder of the two most influential performance spaces in the United States: Performance Space 122 on Manhattan's Lower East Side and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, CA.
Miller has received numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1990, Miller was awarded a NEA Solo Performer Fellowship, which was overturned under political pressure from the Bush Sr. White House because of the gay themes of Miller's work.
Miller and three other artists, the so-called "NEA 4", successfully sued the federal government with the help of the ACLU for violation of their First Amendment rights and won a settlement where the government paid them the amount of the defunded grants and all court costs.
Though the Supreme Court of the United States decided in 1998 to overturn part of Miller's case and determined that "standards of decency" are constitutional criterion for federal funding of the arts, Miller vows "to continue fighting for freedom of expression for fierce diverse voices."
Since premiering Glory Box in 1999 Miller has focused his creative and political work on addressing the injustices facing lesbian and gay couples in America. Glory Box is a funny, sexy, and politically charged exploration of same-sex marriage and the struggle for immigration rights for lesbian and gay bi-national couples. Glory Box recounts the trials Miller has been forced to undergo in trying to keep his Australian partner in the United States.
After a nine-year stint in New York City, in 1987 Miller returned home to Los Angeles, California where he was born and raised. He currently lives there with his partner Alistair McCartney in Venice Beach.
