Miles Doleac

Miles Christopher Doleac (born November 26, 1975) is an American actor, director, writer and producer. He has had acting roles in several films and television shows since 2011 including Watchmen, Lovecraft Country, Treme, Sleepy Hollow, American Horror Story, Salem, Complications, Roots, and several episodes of the CW's Containment. He also has acting roles in the films The Magnificent Seven and Don't Kill It. Doleac founded Historia films in 2014, the production company which produced The Historian (2014), The Hollow (2016), Demons (2017), Hallowed Ground, The Dinner Party, and Demigod. He was the writer, director, producer and an actor on the first four films. Doleac co-wrote The Dinner Party and Demigod with Michael Donovan Horn. Early life and academic career Miles Christopher Doleac was born on November 26, 1975, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He attended the University of North Carolina School of Arts and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in drama. He went on to attend University of Southern Mississippi, graduating with a Master of Arts degree in history. Doleac holds a PhD in Ancient history from Tulane University. He serves as interim chair of Digital Filmmaking at the Loyola University New Orleans. In the early 2000s, Doleac moved to California to pursue an acting career; he was unsuccessful and instead chose to further pursue his academic career. In 2005, he moved to New Orleans to study as a graduate fellow at the Murphy Institute, part of Tulane University. While working on his doctorate he was also a visiting student at Goethe-Institute in Munich (summer 2007), American School of Classical Studies-Athens (summer 2008), and American Academy in Rome (summer 2009). He earned a PhD in Ancient History from the School of Liberal Arts. He completed his dissertation on Pope Gregory I and his role "in developing permanent ecclesiastical institutions under the authority of the Bishop of Rome to feed and serve the poor."