Howie Miller

Miller was born into the Paul Band before being fostered by, then adopted into, a German family in south Edmonton starting at the age of six months. His adoptive family encouraged him to connect with his Indigenous heritage. He worked a number of odd jobs, including as a firefighter and at a car wash, before starting to perform stand-up comedy in his early 20s as a way of supporting his family.^[1]

One of Miller's sons, Tyson Houseman, is an actor who played Quil Ateara in the Twilight films.^[2] Another son, Todd Houseman, performs with Ben Gorodetzky as the comedy duo Folk Lordz.^[3]

Miller is best known as a main cast member of the APTN sketch comedy show Caution: May Contain Nuts, which received many nominations at the Canadian Screen Awards. Miller, in drag, plays Marta, one half (along with Sheldon Elter's Delmer) of an Indigenous couple living in a trailer park. The characters originated as part of Miller and Elter's stand-up routines and improv work.^[4] The couple's story was eventually spun off into the sitcom Delmer and Marta, which follows them as they move to "big city" of Morningside, where Marta gets a job as the host of a news show.^[4][5]

Miller continues to perform stand-up, and has performed in such settings as Just for Laughs, the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and the Halifax Comedy Festival.^[2] In 2022, he released the stand-up album Colonize This.^[6] He makes regular appearances on CBC Radio One comedy show The Debaters.^[6]