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BEST ACTOR NOMINATION – Austin Comedy Short Film Festival Fall 2019
I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity to be nominated for Best Actor at the Austin Comedy Short Film Festival. Recognition like this means a lot, especially for a project as offbeat and fun as The Runs. Huge thanks to the festival team for supporting indie comedy and giving weird little films (and performances) a spotlight.
Gary Miller
Oct 1, 20191 min read


Everybody’s Got a Bug Up Their Ass – Bored As Hell S2
Bored As Hell returns with Season 2, brought to life by the endlessly creative mind of Kevon Ward (writer/director/SFX wizard). The episode? “Lion, Goat-Legged, Buer – OH MY!” And yes, it’s just as chaotic and unhinged as it sounds.
Gary Miller
Sep 27, 20191 min read


Real Stories of The Bible: What I Learned by Failing as a Director
Writing has always been my first creative love. Improv is a very close second, but writing is the one I come home to. I can do it anywhere and at anytime. When Heath asked if I’d write this thing, I said yes immediately. It felt good to be trusted with someone else's idea and to see it brought to life. We met at a bar after I completed the scripts and then Heath was happy and he put it into production with his crew.
Gary Miller
Jul 20, 20195 min read


A Look back at the 2019 Boulder International Fringe Festival
I performed a week of shows at the 15th Annual Boulder International Fringe Festival this year, and I was thrilled to see so many familiar faces there. Though this photo makes me look like a decent human being with at least an ounce of decorum, I want to officially go on record and say that all performances were fully savage. I take no responsibility for how reckless I actually was on stage.
Gary Miller
Jul 2, 20197 min read


Hey mom I made it, I’m the Background Actor in a Local Colorado Commercial
You don’t always need a lead role to feel like you’ve made it. Sometimes all it takes is a green screen, a burrito, and your butt stealing the scene in a credit union commercial your parents actually watched.
Here's the story of this Colorado Commercial.
Gary Miller
Feb 16, 20193 min read


5 Christmas Carols You Can Sing with Your Degenerate Friends
What happens when two carolers won’t leave your porch and demand money? Holiday magic, obviously. Ty Sells, my brother Troy, and I...
Gary Miller
Dec 15, 20182 min read


Last-Minute Casting, Beanie Included: Save The Storks Shoot
I was a last-minute addition to a comedic short for Save The Storks. Megan Elisabeth Kelly played the lead, and I was cast as her boyfriend — a “douchey” one, to be clear. They handed me a beanie and a V-neck and said, “You’re the guy.” That’s how quick it was.
Gary Miller
Nov 22, 20183 min read


Small Crowds, Big Lessons: My First Writing Job in Theater
Back in Denver, I joined Grafenberg Theater as a writer and performer in a show called 303’s & Heartbreaks. It was my first actual sketch writing job at a dedicated comedy theater — not something I made with friends or solo.
Up until then, all the writing I’d done had been just me. I was used to seeing my ideas through from beginning to end, without needing to answer to anyone else. For better or worse, it was just my voice. But this was different. This was a show. With co
Gary Miller
Nov 10, 20184 min read


5 Things I Learned Being in a Shanin Blake Music Video
( Stop, Wait a Minute ) A few years back, I had the chance to be in the music video for Shanin Blake’s song “Stop, Wait a Minute.” I...
Gary Miller
Jul 12, 20184 min read


5 Things I Learned Parodying The Rock (AKA What If Michael Bay Directed a Chess Match?)
We made a fun little parody short inspired by the final sequence of The Rock . It’s dramatic, over-the-top, and built around the simple...
Gary Miller
Mar 22, 20183 min read


6 Things I Learned Making “Our Pet Nicolas Cage”
Sometimes your taste outpaces your talent — and that’s okay.I co-wrote, produced, and acted in a sketch called Our Pet Nicolas Cage. It had a fun premise and a talented cast. It also had bees, too many layers, and a clear lesson in learning when less is more. Here's what I took from that project — and why I'm still proud of it, warts and all.
Gary Miller
Feb 8, 20184 min read


5 Things I Wish I Learned Before Making a Short Film (That Was Never Released)
5 Things I Wish I Learned Before Making a Short Film (That Was Never Released)
Gary Miller
Feb 4, 20184 min read


5 Things I Learned Playing the Bad Guy in a Feature-Length Late-Night Comedy
In 2017, a film I was part of called Army & Coop hit streaming. It was a low-budget, late-night, raunchy, testosterone-fueled comedy set in Boulder, Colorado. I played the bad guy — the kind of antagonist you'd boo at a midnight screening. Looking back, it was my first feature-length role, and I learned a lot, fast.
Here are five lessons I took from playing a guitar-strumming, self-absorbed, pink-polo-wearing villain in a film that, for all its absurdity, taught me real th
Gary Miller
Dec 16, 20173 min read
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