Miley is a West Australian writer, director and New York Stella Adler trained performer. In 2019, she won the inaugural Rebel8 Outstanding Emerging Female Director at Flickerfest for her breakout digital comedy series Calling which she wrote, directed and starred in alongside Debra Lawrance (Please Like Me). Calling was selected to screen at numerous local and international festivals including Adelaide Film Festival, CinefestOZ and Revelation.

The comedy series also received several awards and nominations including Outstanding Achievement in Directing for Miley at the WA Screen Culture Awards and Best International Film as well as a nomination for Best Comedy Award for Calling at Austin Comedy Festival. Virgin Airlines programed Calling to play its inflight entertainment before the series was acquired by the SBS to screen nationally on both its broadcast and streaming platforms in 2021.

In 2020 Miley earned an Australian Director’s Guild Awards Best Director nomination for Molly and Cara, the short comedy series she was commissioned to create for SBS. Miley’s latest film as writer and director is the female led suspense drama In Australia. It premiered at the 2021 St Kilda Film Festival and won the coveted Audience Choice Award as well as being nominated for Best Short film at CinefestOZ Film Festival. In Australia was nominated for a record seven awards, winning three awards at the 2021 WA Screen Culture awards – including Outstanding Achievement in Directing.

Miley has written episodes on Australian broadcast series including The Heights (ABC), which debuted to critical acclaim in February 2019, and series one and two of the ABC animated comedy series 100% Wolf. She has previously won the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards Top Prize for Best TV Comedy and was the recipient of Screenwest’s prestigious Bill Warnock Writer’s Award. Her writing has consistently placed in international screenwriting awards including The Oscars Academy Nicholls Fellowships. She has several original TV projects in development with production companies both in Australia and in the US.

In 2019 Miley was invited into the prestigious MIFF Director’s Accelerator LAB Program. And in 2018, she was selected for Screen Australia’s Talent USA Program that introduces the best emerging Australian talent to the international market. That same year the Director’s Guild selected Miley to attend the Producer’s Guild conference as a directing “One to Watch.”

Miley upcoming first feature as writer and director, the supernatural horror Proclivitas, won the 2023 Screenwest and Screen Australia ‘West Coast Visions’ feature film grant prize of 1.25 million. The film is being produced by Kate Separovich (Dirt Music) and Debbie Liebling (Borat, Dodgeball, South Park) and is now due to go into production in 2024.

WRITING/DIRECTING

SERIES

100% WOLF
Flying Bark Productions/ABC, 2019-2023
Writer, Series 1 (Episode 18)
Series 2 (Episodes 12 & 23)

MOLLY AND CARA
Oui Disco Films/SBS, 2020
Creator/Writer/Director

 THE HEIGHTS
Matchbox/NBC Universal/ABC, 2019
Writer, Season 1 (Episode 11)

CALLING
Oui Disco Films/SBS, 2018
Creator/Writer/Director/Producer          

THE SECRET DAUGHTER
Screentime / Channel 7, 2018
Writer’s Attachment/Shadowing
Series 2

MISS FISHER’S MODERN MURDER MYSTERIES
Every Cloud Productions/ABC, 2017
Writer’s Attachment

SHORT FILM

IN AUSTRALIA
Oui Disco Films, 2021
Writer/Director

MOTHER DAUGHTER TIME
Black Milestone Pictures, 2018
Writer/Director

LOLA & LUIS
Black Milestone Pictures, 2016
Writer/Director

LOVE IN A DISABLED TOILET
Red Milestone Productions, 2015
Writer/Producer

BYE BYE LULU
Red Milestone Productions, 2015
Writer/Producer

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

PROCLIVITAS
West Coast Visions Feature Film Grant:
Recipient ($1.25 million from Screenwest & Screen Australia), 2023

Attagirl International Feature Film Incubator:
Selected to participate, 2021

IN AUSTRALIA
WA Screen Culture Awards:
Winner – Outstanding Achievement in Directing; Editing; Music, 2021

CinefestOz Film Festival:
Winner – People’s Choice Award, 2021

CinefestOz CineWest Awards:
Nominee – Best Short Film, 2021

MOLLY AND CARA
WA Screen Culture Awards:
Nominee – Innovation in Web Series, 2020

Australian Directors Guild Awards:
Nominee – Best Director for Online Comedy Series, 2020

CALLING
WA Screen Culture Awards:
Nominee – Best Director, 2020

Flickerfest Rebel8 Outstanding Emerging Director Award:
Winner, 2019

Austin Comedy Short Film Festival:
Winner – Best International Film, 2018
Nominee – Best Comedy, 2018

DISORDER
Australian Writer’s Guild Pathways Program:
Inductee, 2017

Australian Writer’s Guild Prime Time Competition:
Finalist, 2017

PAGE International Screenwriting Awards:
Gold Place Winner, 2017

LOLA AND LUIS
WA Screen Awards:
Winner – Best Actor, 2016
Nominee – Best Film, 2016

MERMAID’S GUIDE
Princess Pictures Comedy Incubator:
Shortlist Finalist, 2016

RUN SANTOS RUN
The Academy Nicholl Fellowship in Writing
Quarterfinalist, 2014
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Melbourne International Film Festival:
Director’s Accelerator Lab Program, 2019

Screen Australia Talent USA Program:
Talent delegation to New York and Los Angeles, 2018

Bill Warnock Emerging Writers Initiative:
Winner, 2017

EDUCATION & TRAINING

University of Notre Dame / Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
Bachelor of Performing Arts, minoring in Psychology and Film Studies

UCLA Professional Producer’s Program, Los Angeles
Producing

Upright Citizens Brigade, Los Angeles
Sketch Comedy Writing

The Stella Adler Studio, New York
Adler/Strasberg Method, Shakespeare and Chekov

Labyrinth Theatre Company, New York
Studies included: Performance and Writing

SAMPLES OF WORK

IN AUSTRALIA (Drama, Suspense): https://youtu.be/24LtFqv5CpM

MOLLY AND CARA (Comedy, webseries): www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/program/molly-and-cara

CALLING (Comedy, webseries): https://youtu.be/Vn4TZu34qpE

LOLA & LUIS (Drama, Romance): https://youtu.be/t_QeYVHNvGY

LOVE IN A DISABLED TOILET (Comedy): https://youtu.be/6DyquS16OCk