CCM student wins ACT Entertainment's grandMA3 Programming Competition

Winners not only received hardware and software for themselves but also for their academic institutions. As a result of Miller's success, CCM will soon boast a new MA3 on PC  Command Wing XT and MA3 Viz Key for students to use in lighting design classes and to design lighting for CCM’s staged productions. This is in addition to the MA3 Command Wing and MA3 Viz Key CCM received in 2022 after student Eli Suarez was the runner-up winner in the Programming Contest.

Miller has worked numerous events in cooperation with independent theater companies, educational organizations and I.A.T.S.E. as a lighting designer, programmer, technician and rigger. While programming at Footlighters Theater, he won an Orchid Award for the programming of Bonnie and Clyde. He works with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (I.A.S.T.E) where he has set up concerts, shows and operas. Under I.A.T.S.E., he was a Season Electrician, Programmer and Spot One for the Cincinnati Opera Company for the 2022 and 2023 seasons. During those seasons, he worked on 10 productions, 4 of which were world premieres. One of the world premieres (Castor and Patience) was nominated for an International Opera Award. Learn more about Miller on his professional website. 

Cincinnati audiences can see Miller's work at an upcoming production at CCM! Miller is the Production Electrician on Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, presented as part of the college's opera series on March 6-8 in Patricia Corbett Theater.