Location: Della Davidson Studio

Join Performance Studies graduate Dr. Josy Miller for a workshop on the fundamentals of grantwriting and non-profit fundraising. The two-hour interactive session will conclude with an open-ended time for individual questions and feedback.

Josy Miller is the Arts Education Programs Specialist for the California Arts Council. At the CAC, Miller manages six grant programs including JUMP StArts, the agency’s program that supports arts residencies for system-engaged youth. She also sits on the Arts Education Working Group for the National Association of State Arts Agencies. A theatre director and scholar, she received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies from the University of California, Davis. Miller is a recipient of the Center for Cultural Innovation’s Emerging Arts Leader Award, the Mellon Foundation Teaching/Research Fellowship in Early Modern Studies and the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts’s Major Grant Award (for her production of The Dogs of War at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival). Her article “Performing Collective Trauma: 9/11 and the Reconstruction of American Identity” appears in the collection History, Memory, Performance, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015. She is co-editor, with Peter Lichtenfels, of Shakespeare and Realism: On the Politics of Style, forthcoming from Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.