Roberta Miles is a jazz singer, poet, writer, and visual artist. Her award-winning autobiographical monologues touch on growing up in Chicago in the 70’s and her life’s indiscretions and romantic regrets. Roberta chronicles her quest for mental and physical health with brutally hilarious candor. She has crafted her monologues into the one-woman show, “I Want a Banana, and Other Desperate Love Stories.” Roberta performs her work at live lit and storytelling events including God, Sex & Death, This Much is True, The Make Ready at the Dandelion Theatre, Stoop Stories, and Seven Deadly Sins. She is a staple performer with Beast Women and Three Cat Productions and has written and performed with Steppenwolf’s Project Compass.

She is the producer of the long-running shows Cafe Cabaret and Loose Chicks.