Joselle Miller is a theater director, scholar and educator whose work focuses on the utility of beauty and empathy in performance for social change. After working for five years as the Theatre Department Chair at the Oakland School for the Arts, Miller founded Hapgood Theatre Company, an Equity theater in the Bay Area. As Artistic Director, she led the company for five seasons, directing more than a dozen productions, while simultaneously doing freelance directing work with organizations such as Marin Theatre Company, the Eugene O’Neill Foundation and AtmosTheatre in San Francisco. Miller was a 2011 recipient of the Center for Cultural Innovation’s Emerging Arts Leader Award. While at UC Davis, she directed The Dogs of War, her adaptation of Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses plays, spring 2013.