Episode 107: Miles Feld

The Mick Betancourt Show

Miles Feld is from the coastal California town of Bolinas; an ex-hippy commune turned surfer/meth- addict paradise. He was born to a Duke University, pre-med from Durham, NC and a coke smuggler/painter from Chicago. At the age of twelve while traveling through the Amazon jungle together, Miles and his father took hallucinogenic drugs with a Shaman and went on a vision quest. Miles believes those Shamanic dreams were his Bar Mitzvah... His grandfather does not. Miles was the only one of his friends to go to college, landing at New York University in September 2001. Graduating top of his class from NYU’s Playwrights Horizon Theater School, Miles received the Robert Moss Award for Excellence in Directing with a body of work that included plays by Sam Shepard, Edward Albee and Stephen Adly Guirgis. After college, Miles lived in Bangkok where he worked in theater, writing and directing plays. Upon returning to the states, Miles moved to Los Angeles and wrote several short films, such as Trunk, Broken Face, and Under-Tow** which were all produced and went on to the festival scene... except for Broken Face, which to this day, is sitting on a really annoying girl’s computer. Miles did not have a lawyer back then... Miles began working as an assistant to showrunner, Kathleen McGhee-Anderson on the ABC Family series LINCOLN HEIGHTS. Kathleen considered Miles a protégé and mentored him in all aspects of production where he excelled and took an active role within many aspects the show. Miles also excelled on days where the writers needed cocktails, drawing on his real life experience as a bartender. During the 2013-2014 development season, Miles wrote THE NOISE for The CW, CBS Television Studios, and The Tannenbaum Co. based on the formation of the rap-rock group Limp Bizkit. Most recently, Miles developed a pilot for CBS Television Studios and The CW called WICKED GAMES. Miles resides in Los Angeles and is married to writer/actress Diarra Kilpatrick.