Biography of Frank Miles

Frank Miles delivers a riotously funny and totally unique show that's also a motivational workshop filled with powerful tools for handling fear. After his own near death experience in a hang gliding accident, Frank realized that true courage is not facing death in daredevil pursuits. True courage is facing life.

After a full recovery, Frank left one successful career and embarked on another. Using comic monologues, juggling, music and magic, he brings to life simple ideas that help shatter the self imposed limits of fear.

The response has been tremendous. Frank is now a sought after speaker ? entertainer, and his keynote presentation has been honored with laughter and standing ovations from crowds as large as 14,000 people. The show bounces from insightful stand-up comedy, to a slapstick turn juggling fire on a giant unicycle, to performing the world's only Ping-Pong spitting ballet. Maybe that's why Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller fame pronounced this young man, "A comedy machine!"

Hollywood agrees, judging from Frank's success on show's like Comic Strip Live, Evening At the Improv, MTV's Half Hour Comedy Hour, and HBO's The Larry Sander's Show with Garry Shandling.

Frank's humor runs the gamut from monologues on the terrors of commitment to incredible fears like juggling a sixteen pound bowling ball over a volunteer's head in a dramatic demonstration of how you can overcome fear when you have your priorities straight.

Frank Miles began his performing career at the age of fifteen as a street entertainer, passing the hat on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. His parents used to beat him daily, take the few dollars in change he collected from tourists, and spend it on cheap liquor. Okay, that last part's not true, but it kind of grab's your attention, doesn't it? This is true: he won the first annual Best Street Entertainer in San Francisco competition at age eighteen.