Deakin University homepage
Photo of Dr Miles O'Neil

Dr

Miles O'Neil

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts

Orcid identifier0000-0003-0192-7783
  • Senior Lecturer
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • +61 3 924 45927 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

Miles O’Neil is a theatre-maker, musician, actor, director and academic. He received his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2018. He has also taught at the Victorian College of the Arts. As a founding member of the 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, France, USA, Canada and New Zealand. Outside of Suitcase Royale, Miles regularly works as a director of large-scale public art and theatre and as screen actor, voice-over artist and musician.

Miles researches the relationship between sound and performance and within that, he has several interests. Firstly, in the relationship between contemporary theatre and live music performance. Secondly, the sonic evocation of imagined landscapes includes both the live performance of sound and music and pre-recorded composition, Foley and sound design. Thirdly, in the architecture of sound and sonic technology in relation to traditional theatre spaces, unconventional spaces, and large-scale public spaces. Lastly, in the relationship between contemporary Australian performance and the Gothic, including the vital role sound and live music often plays in productions that have been critically received as works of contemporary Australian Gothic theatre.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Senior Lecturer
    Deakin University, School of Communication and Creative Arts

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Lecturer
    Deakin University, Faculty of Arts & Education School of Communication & Creative Arts, Burwood, Australia1 Jul 2019 - present

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    University of Melbourne

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)

  • Performing arts

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Arts and Education

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE

  • School of Communication and Creative Arts