Bebe Miller, Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor in the Department of Dance and artistic director of the Bebe Miller Company, is one of 21 of America’s most vital and productive performing artists announced as the first class of Doris Duke Artists, sharing a total of $5.775 million awarded in a new initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF). Miller and the other artists will receive an unrestricted, multi-year cash grant of $225,000, plus as much as $50,000 more in targeted support.

Miller joins artists such as Anne Bogart (theatre), Don Byron (jazz), Ralph Lemon (dance), Elizabeth LeCompte (theater), and Meredith Monk (multidisciplinary performance), among others, for the honor. To qualify for consideration, all of the Doris Duke Artists must have won grants, prizes or awards on a national level for at least three projects over the past 10 years, with at least one having receive support from a DDCF-funded program. The first class of artists were chosen based on demonstrated evidence of exceptional creativity, ongoing self-challenge and the continuing potential to make significant contributions to their fields.