Executive director of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts at the Australian Council. Miller was an actor with the Aboriginal National Theatre Trust in the 1980s and 90s.
She performed in the first Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney production of Louis Nowra's Radiance as Cressy. Lydia's stage credits include A Mouthful of Birds (Walkers & Talkers, STC); State of Shock (Toetruck); Malache (Brolgas - RQTC); Capricornia (Belvoir, National Tour, SATC, MTC); Death of Phillip Robinson (New Theatre); Survival '88; Not the 1988 Party (Aboriginal National Theatre Trust, Belvoir): Diary of a Madman (Belvoir, Adelaide Arts Festival '92, MTC and the first Australian Cultural exchange with Russia); Munjong (Aboriginal National Theatre Trust - Victorian Arts Centre); Racing Demons, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus (STC); and One Woman's Song (RQTC). Film and television credits include: Backlash, Deadly (Best Supporting Actress at the Asian Pacific Film Festival), Rafferty's Rules, Winners, R.E.D.S., Karbara... First Born, English At Work, Black Smile, Fin de Siecle and Poison (Best New Drama at New York Film Festival and Golden Tripod for Cinematography). Lydia formed a partnership with Rhoda Roberts in a Media Production company AMPIMEDIA.
Source: 'Radiance', Currency Press, Sydney 1993.
