On The Rise - Patrick

Ever since his first performance as Joseph in a nativity play when he was five years old, Patrick "Millz" Miller's passion for the arts has steadily been growing. Over two decades after playing this role Millz has been establishing himself as a playwright and performing artist. Millz is also the current artistic director of Writers’Café. Launched in April 2017, Writers’ Café is a creative space for writers to meet and vibe-off other writers, work, sell and collaborate. Its flagship event the Writers Meet-Up is a literary arts initiative working towards the promotion of the local writing and reading culture. Through Writers’ Café and his stage plays, Millz has been engaged in creative activism focused on mental health issues (with a special focus on minorities) by using the Writers Meet-Up not only as an inclusive space for the creative exploration of understanding the human narrative, but a means of providing alternative coping mechanisms using writing as therapy. Millz has had his work developed at various platforms, most notably at the Almasi African Playwrights Conference 2018. It is through this platform that Millz was offered the opportunity to be a Writer in Residence at the 2018 Ojai Playwrights Conference in California.