Shirts & Skin

When his high school gym teacher divided the class into two teams, Shirts and Skins, for a game of touch football, Tim Miller knew “I was always going to be on the team where the boys took their clothes off and got close to each other.” In this revealing, humorous, frequently sexy memoir, Miller, one of the famed NEA Four, looks at some of the major events that have shaped his life: the growth of his first pubic hair, becoming the love slave of a John Travolta look-alike, shopping for a dog, deciding whether to take the HIV antibody test, and searching for the perfect soul mate. 

TIM MILLER has been writing solo theater works since 1980. He made national headlines after successfully suing the US National Endowment for the Arts for withdrawing a grant under political pressure and is now the artistic director of Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, California. He lives in the Venice Beach district of Los Angeles.