Eric Booth

Eric Booth began his professional career as a Broadway and Shakespearean actor. His Broadway credits include A Walk in the Woods,[4] Whose Life is it Anyway?[5] at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (previously known as the Royal Theatre), Golda,[6] and Cesar and Cleopatra[7] at the Palace Theatre. Other credits include Lydie Breeze at the American Place Theater,[8] Design for Living by Noel Coward and directed by George C. Scott at Circle in the Square, and A Girl's Guide to Chaos by Cynthia Heimel at the American Place Theater in 1986.[9]

As a Shakespearean Actor, Booth performed at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (1974-75), The New Jersey Shakespeare Festival (1976,1978)l[10] [11] and was awarded the Best Actor in New Jersey award for Hamlet).

Booth's Off-Broadway credits include the 1981 American tour of Alec McCowen's one-man play St. Mark’s Gospel[12][13][14][15]with multi-week performance runs in both Chicago and at The Kennedy Center. Additionally Booth played Vaknor, Emperor of the Universe in Episode 26[16] by Howard Korder. Other performances include The Lady and the Clarinet[17] by Michael Cristofer at the Lambs Theatre in 1985, Three Acts of Recognition performed at the Public Theater,[18] The Importance of Being Earnest at Indiana Repertory Theater,[19] as well as appearances at The Actor’s Theater of Louisville during the 1975-76 season, and the Delaware Theater Company.

Following his acting career, Eric Booth launched a career in arts education as an educator, program designer, and strategist for national arts organizations, including The League of American Orchestras, The National Guild for Community Arts Education, Chorus America, and Opera America. In 1980, Eric began teaching for Lincoln Center Institute[20] (now called Lincoln Center Education).[21] Booth developed Lincoln Center Institute satellite locations in Buffalo, Rochester, Utica, San Diego, Memphis and Nashville. He was the senior teaching artist at the Nashville Institute for the Arts (1981-2002). The Leonard Bernstein Center was born from the Nashville Institute for the Arts in 1993,[22] and he was hired as the Founding Director of its Teacher Center. The national network of Artful Learning schools was born out of the Leonard Bernstein Center, and Booth remains on the Board of Directors of Leonard Bernstein Center’s Artful Learning.   

Booth co-designed and taught the Arts and Education program at the Juilliard School and led the Morse Fellowship program there from 1994-2000.

Booth was a lead design consultant for the National Performing Arts Conferences in 2004 and 2008, and for the joint national conferences of Americans for the Arts and National Assembly of State Arts Agencies in 2001 pARTicipate and 2004—the four largest performing arts gatherings in U.S. history. Eric played a fundamental role in establishing the International Teaching Artist Collaborative (ITAC). The first ITAC Conference took place in Norway in 2012, instigated by Marit Ulvund through Seanse Art Center and Eric Booth.[23]

Honorary doctorate of musical arts, teaching artistry, New England Conservatory, 2013[30]

In addition to his acting and teaching careers Booth founded Alert Publishing, Inc. in 1985, and wrote three books on the lifestyles and trends of American people. He became a major figure in trend analysis, frequently quoted by and interviewed in the major media.[31]

Eric Booth Miller was born in Manhattan, New York City on October 18, 1950 to a magazine editor and a school administrator.[32] He lived in New York City throughout his adult life, and in 1995 moved to the Hudson River Valley. He is the great-great-great-grandson of infamous American actor, John Wilkes Booth.[33] and a relative of Edwin Booth[34]

Let's Just Go For It With Eric Booth, Creative Generation, April 27, 2021