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This page was last updated on: 7/13/2018
NAOMI MILLER
SINGER/VOCALIST/RACONTEUR/LECTURER
CABARET/CONCERT/ RECORDING ARTIST
973-615-8431 609-664-2251 (fax) NaomiSings@aol.com
and at www.youtube.com
International song stylist, performing songs from folk music to popular to Broadway musical comedy in English, Hebrew, French, Russian, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Ladino (a combination of Spanish and Hebrew), Yiddish, Japanese, African dialiects, Irish accent, and even Sign Language.
Sample Performances ...................................
Opened for Tovah Feldshuh - Israel Emergency Fund
Opened for Bruce Adler, Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ
Opened for Paul Zim, Louisville, Kentucky
"Izzy Who? A Tribute To Irving Berlin" - The Manor, West Orange
"Love, Marriage, Children and Liposuction" - Don't Tell Mama & Judy's, NYC cabarets
"From Klezmer to Broadway - and Everything in Between" - Symphony Space, Broadway, NYC
"From Klezmer to Broadway-and Everything in Between"- Forum Theatre, Metuchen, NJ
"You are the Future" - Muhlenberg College, PA
"Let Me in on it Too" - Solomon Schechter Nassau County
"A Glazele Tay" - Manhattan JCC
SAMPLE LOCALES .....................................
San Juan, Puerto Rico; Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada; Jerusalem, Israel; Prague, Krakow, Czech Republic; Barcelona and Madrid, Spain; Boston, Sharon, Brighton, Brookline, and Newton, Massachusetts; Philadelphia, Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Harrisburg, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Reading, Scranton, Pennsylvania; Chicago, Illinois; Kansas City, Kansas; Phoenix, Arizona; Columbia, South Carolina; Rhode Island; Delaware; Maryland; Lake Dalton, Wisconsin; Kentucky; Savannah, Georgia; and all over New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Florida, etc.
First Nights (New Year's Eve performances) - 1993 to present including Morristown, Montclair, and Teaneck, New Jersey
Yiddish Vinkles - at JCCs and synagogues where the songs and all patter are performed entirely in tzebrucheneh Yiddish
College Concerts - e.g. Rutgers, Columbia, William Paterson University, Hofstra, Seton Hall, Upsala, Fairleigh Dickinson, Muhlenberg, Westchester Community College, Queens College, etc.
Holocaust Commemorations and Israel Independence Day Celebrations in churches, synagogues, JCC's, colleges and schools
Children's Shows - singing international music, sometimes combined with signing and Deaf awareness, sometimes as part of Holocaust studies, and sometimes to learn about Jewish culture.
Organizations - e.g. UJA, B'nai Brith, Hadassah, ORT, Federations, JEA, Second Generation, Hillel, National Council for Jewish Women, Jewish Deaf Council, National Congress of Jewish Deaf, North American Federation of Secular Humanistic Jews, JASA, Renaissance Clubs, Sisterhoods, Men's Clubs, Shalom Clubs, JCCs, synagogues, libraries, Condo Associations, Hazak, CAJE, Mizrachi, Yiddish Vinkles, etc.
Band Leader/MC/Vocalist for B'not Mitzvah, Anniversaries, Weddings, Birthdays
CABARETS, CLUBS & THEATERS............................
Headliner at Symphony Space, The Forum, The Wallington Exchange International Nightclub for three years, six shows per week; New York: Don't Tell Mama, Judy's Chelsea, Helen's, The Duplex, St. Regis, Cafe Feenjon, The Darvish, Cafe Tel Aviv, The Noga, Gerde's Folk City, Cafe Hava Nagila, Cafe Levanteen, Cafe Baba, etc.; NJ: Nonna's, Il Vicolo, The Rosen PAC, The Crow's Nest, etc.
FESTIVALS .........................................
International Jewish Arts Festival of Long Island, Commack, NY; Israeli Festival of Union,; Annual Festival Louisville, KY; New Jersey Ethnic Festival, Liberty State Park, NJ; Jewish Festival of Westchester, Yonkers, NY; Jewish County Fair, New Brunswick; Jewish Cultural Arts Festival, South Shore Y; New England Jewish Music Forum, Newton, MA; The Festival of Jewish and Israeli Culture, Little Neck, NY; Jewish Festival of the Arts, Holmdel, NJ; Yiddish Festivals, YM-YWHA of North Jersey; etc.
ACTRESS .........................................
leading roles with the Folksbiene - The National Yiddish Theatre in such plays as A Shpil farn Tayvl (Devil's Play) by Isaac Basheves Singer; Gimpl Tam by Isaac Basheves Singer; Dos Groyse Gevins (The Lottery) by Sholom Aleichem, Der Mames Shabosim (My Mother's Sabbath Days) based on a novel by Chaim Grade and adapted for the stage by Dovid Licht; etc.
MEDIA ..........................................
Radio - extensive airplay on radio stations across the country included WEVD, NY; Joey Adams Show; Ruth Jacobs Show; Norman Laster show, The Charlie Bernhaut Show, JM in the AM, Oy Vay It's Sunday, The Jewish Variety Hour, etc
TV - yearly appearances on "The Jewish Entertainment Hour" with Gary Wagner, producer; "A Taste of Honey;" National Jewish Television, "Judaism Today" with Jack Weinshanker;, Lee Leonard's "Jersey's Talking," and various other cable shows
RECORDINGS .......................................
HONORS/LECTURES ...................................
Nominated "Outstanding Female Debut" by Manhattan Association of Cabarets - 2000
Selected by Conference on Alternatives in Jewish Education (CAJE) to do a workshop on teaching about the Holocaust through music - August 2000
Selected to record for the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music Project in Vienna
Selected to perform for then Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Shamir
Named one of top 10 female Jewish vocalists by Lilith Magazine
Invited to lecture on"Jewish Women In The Arts" by Women's Education Institute
Invited to lecture at various schools on "The Diversity of Jewish Music"
Honored along with husband, Harvey, by Congregation Shomrei Torah, The Jewish Deaf and Hearing Impaired Council, NJ Association of the Deaf, and Parents for Deaf Awareness, Inc.
Selected to present an address and song as representative of the Second Generation at the Holocaust Commemoration sponsored by the UJA Federation of Northern New Jersey
SONGWRITER .......................................
"You Cut It Too Short" (music by Larry Hochman). "Let Me in On it Too," "Streets Paved with Gold," "Save Them Now" (with Harvey Miller, music and additional lyrics by Larry Hochman)
VOICE TEACHERS/COACHES/DIRECTORS ......................
Tovah Feldshuh Linda Burns Carol Prescott Robert Marks Eddie Strauss Bill Riley
Larry Hochman Richard Danley Michael Tornick Janet Sosinsky Mark Nadler Bill Reed
Anna Freund Thomasina Hyland Edward Schiff Paper Mill Playhouse Moshe Yasur Anastasia Swope Motl Didner Zalmen Mlotek
SPECIAL SKILLS .....................................
Sign Language, dialects, foreign languages, humor, lecturer, song writer (can create songs in honor of occasion), folk dancer, lyricist, speech therapist, speech impediments, concert producer, cultural arts director, story teller, audience interaction, music teacher, Yiddish teacher, Hebrew school teacher
YOUTUBE...........................................
(just remember that she was 85 pounds heavier then!!)
References and recordings are available upon request
Naomi Miller - Touching Your Heart with Music
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