ONLY CHILD AERIAL THEATRE,

founded in 2013 by aerial artists/actors Nicki Miller and Kendall Rileigh, is a multi-disciplinary performance and education company whose creative work researches the poetic and narrative possibilities of aerial arts.

Only Child’s original work has been developed with support from:

New Victory LabWorks at The New Victory Theater (NYC)
Circus Now/NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
Brooklyn Arts Council
The Muse Brooklyn
Circus Warehouse
Hybrid Movement Creative Lab
Constellation Moving Company
Burning Coal Theatre (Raleigh NC)

Only Child has collaborated with:

Theatre Development Fund (TDF)
Ripe Time, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
Acrobatic Conundrum (Seattle, WA)
Santa Barbara 2016 Floor to Air Festival (Santa Barbara, CA)
Metropolitan Playhouse (New York, NY)
Delaware Theatre Company
2017 INSITU Site Specific Dance Festival
Ellie Dubois (production assistance)
Cirkus Cirkör (production assistance, creative residency)

Nicki Miller
Co-Founding Artistic Director

Nicki Miller is a director, choreographer, and performer known for her theatrical take on aerial arts. Recent credits include aerial designer and choreographer for Ripe Time’s “The World is Round” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), assistant director of 5th Wall Studio's "Breaking Surface" in NYC, and performer in ABCirque’s “Different Trains.” Invited residencies: Cirkus Cirkör (Sweden), the 2016/17 New Victory LabWorks Program, the Santa Barbara Floor to Air Festival, Circus Sessions at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre, the Contemporary Circus Arts Festival of Toronto, and the 2018 Frequent Flyers’ Aerial Dance Festival in Colorado where and Nicki was the recipient of the Glenn P. Davis Aerial Choreographer’s scholarship award. Nicki is a graduate of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. She is also a freelance artist, applied neuroscience focused aerial and movement rehab coach, and contributing writer for CircusTalk.com. Personal website: nickimiller.com

Kendall Rileigh
Co-Founder

Kendall is an NYC-based actor, aerialist/acrobat, and choreographer from NC. She recently played Golda Meir in the Broadway touring production of the one-woman show Golda's Balcony (as Tovah Feldshuh's understudy). Other tours: Trenches, Great Expectations, Charlotte's Web. Off-Broadway: The Groundling, The Brightness of Heaven, Another Part of the Forest, Savage in Limbo. TV: 30 Rock. Training: Duke University, Moscow Art Theatre, Circus Warehouse. Kendall was a 2016 resident choreographer at Firkin Crane (Cork, Ireland) and was aerial director for Delaware Theatre Company's Hetty Feather in spring of 2017. www.kendallrileigh.com

Collaborators

Designers AnD Crew:

Jan Chambers (Costumes)
Jesse Garrison (Projection)
ED Intemann (Lighting)
Juanita Cardenas (Costumes)
Laura Sisskin Fernandez (Sound)
David Glista (Lighting)
John Wilder (Lighting)
William Vann Carlton (Stage Management)
Benjamin E. Oyzon (Rigging)

MUSICAL COLLABORATORS:

Sophie B. Hawkins
Heather Christian & the Arbornauts
Walken Schweigert
Dan Dauchy
Laura Sisskin Fernandez/Oh, Elis
Ben Lieberman
Ashni
Šara Stranovsky
Ashley Winkfield