From nerdy bookworm to
professional storyteller...
My name is Miranda. I've worked in the entertainment industry since I could walk. My first steps were taken onstage (I had insisted on pushing my stroller onto the stage by myself) with my mom and dad who were in the ensemble of a professional Christmas show.
I grew up in and around theatre while my parents worked as professional performers, directors, stage management and choreographers.
Later on, they opened a performing arts studio, Diamond Talent, where I got to perform both in musical theatre, dance, and tap companies. When I wasn't performing, I was helping steam costumes, build sets, test lights, and run music. It's a wonder why I decided to go into the industry as a professional.
By the time I had reached high school, my love of theatre expanded beyond musical theatre into Shakespeare & classical theatre and filmmaking. I loved reading every book I could get my hands on. I wrote so many short stories and scripts on my family computer and saved them onto a yellow floppy disk (back in the early 2000s). I traveled to London to see Shakespeare performed at the Globe and devoured every performance from the National Theatre as I could. I taught myself how to edit film as another fun creative outlet, and I knew that I wanted to be attached to the storytelling world in some fashion for the rest of my life.
Once I graduated, my real adventure began...
Professional Bio below:
Miranda's Story...
Miranda Jean Larson is an Actress, Writer, Producer, and Film Editor & Video Designer for stage & screen.
She began her career as an actress performing in independent theatre and short films in New York City (Juliet in Romeo & Juliet w/ Occupy Verona, Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead w/ Onomatopoeia Theatre Company, Gwendolen Fairfax in The Importance of Being Earnest w/ interACT Theatre Company NJ).
In 2018, she wrote, acted in, co-directed, & produced her short film Innocence which won Best Short FIlm & Best Indie Film
among other awards on the film festival circuit. Shortly after, she began writing her first feature Writing Theo which reached the
Semi-Finalist round of Screencraft's Screenwriting Fellowship in 2019.
In 2020, she expanded her career into video design and film editing. A self-taught video editor from the age of 15, she took the opportunity of the loss of "Day Jobs" and theatre work in the midst of the pandemic, and joined the editing team for The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues w/ The 24 Hour Plays theatre company in NYC. Later that year she became their Lead Editor and made her Broadway Debut as a video designer for The 24 Hour Plays: On Broadway at the end of 2021.
In 2022, she moved to the Philadelphia area and began working with the newly founded production company Original CINematic based in Reading, PA as their resident film editor. Since joining their team, Miranda has worked on one short film One For the Road based on the short story by Steven King and two feature films GROUP & Immersion with several upcoming projects in pre-production.
Miranda received 18 Best Film Editing awards for GROUP which is now streaming on Amazon Prime & Counter Spell.
Immersion, which she also had the immense pleasure of acting in her first lead role in a feature film, was released to festivals in Summer 2024 which has won her multiple Best Actress in a Feature Film awards as well as more Best Editing Awards.
Miranda has also freelanced with Emmy award-winning TV show Janet's Planet running their video design for their traveling science kids show, several short films and web series from independent companies based in NYC, and for the video design and performance edits for her home performing arts studio Diamond Talent Productions which has produced several Broadway performers, professional dancers and actors, and filmmakers.
Miranda is an alum of Pace University’s Acting program which houses The Actor's Studio, and she is a study abroad alum for Regent’s University, London where she studied screenwriting, producing, and production. She continues to write, act in, and produce her own works.
Contact
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