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Romy Shiller lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is a pop culture critic, actor and author. She is one of Canada's leading underground artistic and academic voices specializing in the fluidness of gender.

Life
Romy Shiller, is considered a medical mystery. In 2003 she had a brain tumour removed and went into a five month coma. Afterwards, she had akinetic mutism and did not speak until March 2004.

Romy Shiller was Communications Director for Max the Mutt Animation School. She wrote articles for various magazines including FAB and Canadian Theatre Review. Romy is currently a contributor to Live For Films.

Education
Romy Shiller holds a PhD in Drama from the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto where she wrote a doctoral dissertation entitled 'A Critical Exploration of Cross-Dressing and Drag in Gender Performance and Camp in Contemporary North American Drama and Film.'

In addition to having a PhD from the University of Toronto, she has a master's degree in Drama from there as well. Her Bachelor of Arts degree is from McGill University where she studied English. She went to Vanier College for her CEGEP and attended Mount Royal High School for her secondary studies.

Romy Shiller studied voice at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto, Canada with William Perry and with a private coach in Montreal, Carmen Mehta, from the age of 13 to 21.

Romy Shiller attended Berkshire Center for the Performing Arts (USA) and The Hampton Playhouse (USA) where she studied Musical Theatre. She went to The Ashton Dance Academy for Ballet (Montreal) and The Dance Factory for Jazz Dance and Modern Dance (Montreal).

Media Appearances and Performances
Romy Shiller was in a television series on YTV/CORUS Entertainment, called 'System Crash.'

In 1997, Romy Shiller appeared in the film, "An Innocent Kiss,' directed by Tina Hahn under Cottage Creative Productions. She also played the role of Wendy in Chris Philpott's 'The Eternal Husband.' In the play, 'Kyotopolis' by Daniel David Moses, she played Barbara Buck/Jo/Beaver Puppet at The Robert Gill Theatre in Toronto under the direction of Colin Taylor.

She would often substitute for Host/Arts Critic Melinda Best on Café Express, CHIN 101.3 FM.

Romy Shiller was a Special Guest with The Bitch Diva at Pimbletts. She performed with the bands Mystic Muse and Forever Changing.

As performance research, Romy Shiller was in The Greater Toronto Drag King Society where she played Marie Osmond, Lola from the song Copacabana and Slash from the musical group Guns N’ Roses.

Romy Shiller is included in the Bibliography of Theatre History in Canada. Romy Shiller was on the CBC News with her book You Never Know: A Memoir. Romy Shiller is in an issue (Fall '08) of U of T Magazine. Romy Shiller is in Lipstik Indie as the "feature artist" for You Never Know: A Memoir and appears there for her book 'Again'. Romy Shiller is in an issue of The Canadian Jewish News.

Romy is reviewed for You Never Know: A Memoir.

Works
Her book 'You Never Know '(Trafford Publishing, 2008, ISBN: 978-1-4251-3691-8.) not only tells the story of her brain surgery, lengthy coma and Akinetic Mutism but she muses about reality, death, time, popular culture, psychic phenomena and dreams.

Her other book is 'Again.' (ISBN: 978-1-4251-8481-0) ‘Again’ combines an academic exploration of reincarnation with real-life experiences. Using as a basis the altered reality of quantum physics, Shiller extrapolates. It is for everyone. More than anything it is an insightful philosophy of life.

A 3rd book is 'Who Knew?' A continuation of Romy's book ‘You Never Know: A Memoir.'

Romy has a play called 'Le Wow.' (Trafford Publishing, 2018.)

One of her articles has been translated into Italian and is used to teach a University course on Communications. A separate article, A Drag King Invasion is taught at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta. It has been chosen to be included in a book. She can be read in the book Third Wave Feminism and Television: Jane Puts it in a Box. Romy Shiller has been on the same course syllabus as Simone de Beauvoir.