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Acclaimed acting coach Miranda Harcourt will discuss how actors can achieve unselfconsciousness, inner life and responsiveness by balancing their vista, their connection and their internal landscape. Miranda will bring case studies and research about the ways psychology and neuroscience can help us to fully occupy a role and a relationship.
On this episode of Do It Again But Better, Jess chats to actor, producer, writer and wardrobe warrior Sally Cheng. Fresh from St Kilda Film Festival, Sally and Jess discuss Sally's Septimius Award-nominated role in the apocalyptic Remi, on set dos and don'ts from a seasoned costume assistant, and attempt to quote passages from some of their favourite books and acting teachers at the same time.Sally Cheng is an actor and producer, known for Neighbours, Safe Home and White Fever. Her recent short film Remi has toured Flickerfest, St Kilda Film Festival, Revelation Perth, and was Nominated for Best Actress at the Septimius Awards. Sally has worked on a variety of short films, commercials and webseries, theatre, as well as writing and producing her own films. Sally has trained with a variety of coaches around the world in both classes and private coaching. She has studied with Lisa Robertson, Howard Fine, Miranda Harcourt, Damian Walshe-Howling, and more. Sally's approach is to always find the truth in the scene, circumstance and moment. You can find Sally on Instagram at @iamsallychengYou can find your host, Jess Stanley, on Instagram at @jstanny or at www.jessicastanleyactor.comYou can check out Jess's theatre company, Spinning Plates Co. at @spinningplatesco or at www.spinningplatesco.comYou can follow the Do It Again But Better podcast at @doitagainbutbetterThis podcast was created, recorded and edited on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Always was, always will be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Husband and wife duo Dame Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie have become central to the film and theatre world. It's all in the family: while Miranda's mother Kate is one of Aotearoa's most respected actors, their daughter Thomasin is forging a career in Hollywood While Miranda acts and directs, Stuart writes.
Acting Royalty Dame Miranda Harcourt has worked with some of the biggest names in Hollywood but says the her most useful acting experience was working in the New Zealand prison system, using theater for social change. She tells Simon about Alison Holst's pantry, using the Samoan concept of le va in her job, and how it's important to be a human first. Check out her substack at https://mirandaharcourt.substack.com/ You can read stories supporting this episode on stuff.co.nz. Need more great podcasts? Check out Stuff's full catalogue here. GET IN TOUCH Feedback? Got a guest you'd like Simon to talk to? We're listening! Email us at generallyfamous@stuff.co.nz CREDITS Host: Simon Bridges Producers: Chris Reed and Jen Black Audio editing and mixing: Connor Scott
Very proud, but some serious imposter syndrome at play for Miranda Harcourt. She's been named Supreme Winner at last night's Kea Awards in Auckland. They recognise those who have demonstrated unique power of Kiwi connection and used it to benefit Aotearoa. The actor, director and performance coach told Mike Hosking she was in awe of the other winners. Harcourt told Mike Hosking as the evening progressed, she was so overwhelmed and impressed by the global impact of all the amazing Kiwis in the room. Other winners include Katie Sadlier, the first female CEO of the Commonwealth Games Federation who just oversaw the Birmingham event, and Dave Ferguson who has an algorithm being used on NASA's Mars rover. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Very proud, but some serious imposter syndrome at play for Miranda Harcourt. She's been named Supreme Winner at last night's Kea Awards in Auckland. They recognise those who have demonstrated unique power of Kiwi connection and used it to benefit Aotearoa. The actor, director and performance coach told Mike Hosking she was in awe of the other winners. Harcourt told Mike Hosking as the evening progressed, she was so overwhelmed and impressed by the global impact of all the amazing Kiwis in the room. Other winners include Katie Sadlier, the first female CEO of the Commonwealth Games Federation who just oversaw the Birmingham event, and Dave Ferguson who has an algorithm being used on NASA's Mars rover. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Max interviews Acting Coach Miranda Harcourt- How Miranda works with Directors like Jane Campion, Peter Jackson, Taika Waititi and emerging Directors.- How to build chemistry fast- What are actors consistently asking for help with- What its like working with famous Actors - How Miranda approaches her Masterclass for Professional Actors- The power of listening as an Actor- The magic of finding your flowEpisode page: https://www.twounemployedactors.com/Miranda-Harcourtwww.twounemployedactors.comAn Add Kulcha Production
You don't get better than the casting of Showtime's Yellowjackets. The series takes place in 1996 and 2021, following what happens when a high school girls soccer team's plane crashes on the way to nationals and they're forced to do whatever it takes to survive out in the wilderness for 19 months. Then, the 2021 material shows how the survivors are coping with what they've done as they try to outrun a tragedy that's seemingly always on the verge of consuming them all over again. In celebration of Yellowjackets' phenomenal Season 1 run on Showtime, Melanie Lynskey joined us for an episode of Collider Ladies Night. Yes, much of the focus was on Yellowjackets, but that's just one of many stellar titles on Lynskey's filmography. In addition to discussing working on Season 1 and some Yellowjackets spoilers, Lynskey revisited working on Heavenly Creatures, collaborating with Steven Soderbergh, how Miranda Harcourt changed the game for her career and so much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We know: you're busy, you're underfunded, you have deadlines, you can't keep up with one of your social media accounts, let alone all of them - and yet, other busy creatives have time to also start a podcast? How to prioritise your public persona. In this session, Chris Henry Director of 818 and PEOPLE OF INFLUENCE speaks to powerhouse duo Miranda Harcourt internationally recognised acting Coach, Actor and Director, and NZ Playwright and Director Stuart Mckenzie in a korero about Personal Branding and Making Authentic Connections with your own Audience. This Podcast is part of The A-Z of Screen Publicity workshop sessions. The two-day workshop was run by Script to Screen in partnership with the Aotearoa Screen Publicists Collective (ASPC) and was held on 7 & 8 May 2021 in Auckland.
More than 20 hours of interviews recorded during and since the New Zealand-wide lockdown in March last year, have been distilled into a stage show called Transmission. The key figures for creators Stuart McKenzie and Miranda Harcourt were epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson. The aim was to get a behind-the-scenes glimpse into how they were thinking and feeling at the time. The verbatim stage play is about to premiere in Wellington. Lynn Freeman talks to three of the cast: Sophie Hambleton, who plays Jacinda Ardern, Tom Knowles who plays Grant Robertson, and Tim Spite, who returns to the stage to portray Michael Baker. Transmission premieres at Bats Theatre in Wellington on Tuesday, April 20.
Rachael Wotherspoon is an Award Winning New Zealand Actress and Filmmaker based in Los Angeles.Rachael (nickname Rey) has been Acting since she was a child and has always had a strong interest in Art; throwing herself into Drama and Art classes in and outside of school throughout her Primary and High School years.Fresh out of High School Rachael began working full-time to help support family members through a tough time, while putting herself through night classes at TAPAC, The Actors Program Workshop and The Actors Lab. Upon moving to Los Angeles Rachael attended the Pearlman Acting Academy, Bob Corff's Voice Coaching and The Groundlings Theatre & School.In between her years studying Acting Rachael also attended an Arts University for Web Development and Design, Graduating as a qualified Web Developer.Rachael has studied under renowned coaches and tutors in New Zealand and Los Angeles, including Larry Moss, Joseph Pearlman, Miranda Harcourt, Peter Feeney, Andrea Kelland, Vicky Yiannoutsos, Sara Wiseman and Fiona Edgar and she is represented by Gail Cowan Management.Rachael's career spans Television Drama, Comedy, Film, Web Series', Commercials, Modeling and Theatre, as well as Writing, Producing her own Web Series' and Short Films earning her multiple American Film Festival Awards.Outside of Acting Rachael is an active Volunteer Worker, engaged in helping with causes including Human Rights, Environmental issues and Animal Welfare. She works / has worked as a volunteer and / or fundraiser for the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation, the SPCA, Coastal Cleanup, the Divine Homeless Project and other foundations.Rachael is also a Painter and enjoys painting and working on her Art in her spare time.For all Business Enquiries please contact Gail Cowan Management or Trinity Artists International.W: http://rachaelwotherspoon.com/about-rachael/IG: https://www.instagram.com/rachwotherspoon/T: https://twitter.com/ImRachWYT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTjvPhU9nO2ERVdBc27iBYALike to have a ASC cinematographer as a mentor?Have you thought of upgrading your cinematography game? Would you like to have an ASC Cinematographer mentor you for free? Join veteran cinematographer Suki Medencevic, A.S.C. (Disney, Pixar, FX Networks, Netflix, American Horror Story). He teaches you how to create beautiful images using three lighting techniques he has mastered on film sets over his 30+ years in the film industry. Each technique uses basic, low-cost lighting equipment so that anyone can achieve beautiful visuals no matter your projects's budget.Learn film lighting from an ASC cinematographer. If you want to take your cinematography to the next level, this free training will get you there. These videos are available for a limited time, so sign up for instant access. CLICK HERE TO REGISTERhttps://www.ifhacademy.com/a/28632/aLFBXkpNIf you liked this podcast, shoot me an e-mail at filmmakingconversations@mail.comAlso, you can check out my documentary The People of Brixton, on Kwelitv here: https://www.kweli.tv/programs/the-people-of-brixtonDamien Swaby Social Media Links:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/filmmaker_damien_swaby/Twitterhttps://twitter.com/DamienSwaby?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5EauthorWebsite http://filmmakingconversations.com/If you enjoy listening to Filmmaking Conversations with Damien Swaby, I would love a coffee. Podcasting is thirsty work https://ko-fi.com/damienswaby
Miranda Harcourt has such an amazing body of work to show for her creative career. As an acting coach, actress and director, Miranda has worked on such films as 'Lion', 'Aquaman', 'The Lovely Bones' and worked with directors such a Peter Jackson, Taika Waititi and Jane Campion to only name a few. Miranda's career started out on the NZ soap opera 'Gloss' before she became one of the first practitioners to bring Verbatim theatre to the industry. www.mirandaharcourt.com/ Email: rachellaurenbaker@outlook.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Miranda Harcourt has such an amazing body of work to show for her creative career. As an acting coach, actress and director, Miranda has worked on such films as 'Lion', 'Aquaman', 'The Lovely Bones' and worked with directors such a Peter Jackson, Taika Waititi and Jane Campion to only name a few. Miranda's career started out on the NZ soap opera 'Gloss' before she became one of the first practitioners to bring Verbatim theatre to the industry. https://www.mirandaharcourt.com/ Email: rachel@thehubstudio.com.au
In this online Equity Foundation address acclaimed acting coach Miranda Harcourt will speak and show material about text, how we learn it, how our thoughts form it and inform it, how it creates character and how we can speak it fluidly with a sense of ownership and spontaneity. An essential class to take your acting to the next level. This is an edited version of a live stream event for MEAA Equity members that took place on Tuesday August 4, 2020.
Actress, acting coach and director Miranda Harcourt had a chat with Rachel this morning about what covid is going to mean for New Zealand's flm and television industry. Whakarongo mai nei!
Today on your bFM Breakfast: A typo leaves us thinking we might be expecting some pretty big ~waves~ coming through, oops; the Prime Minister dials in bright and early to cover some huge topics; Rob's talking bees and fridges; Miranda Harcourt discusses the film industry with Rachel, how things are changing; and Tim's here to help us through a hefty week of media news. Feeling thankful for the rain, to be honest.
New Zealand screen industry is cranking into action with work on local productions and locally filmed Hollywood films back underway.Some are predicting a boom for the industry as Hollywood increasingly looks to New Zealand as somewhat of a safe haven for film and television.This is being seen as a positive not only for local businesses but local actors.Kiwi actress and acting coach Miranda Harcourt told Francesca Rudkin this is a good opportunity for local actors to be cast in roles that would normally be filled by international heavyweights."When projects that were going to be shot somewhere else in the world come to New Zealand and Australia, then immediately the doors are open for actors on the ground."She says that the fact New Zealand has beaten Covid-19 is one of the new incentives that could court international productions. Harcout says she expects actors and directors would be willing to quarantine here if it means restarting production. "Everyone wants to get on with and resume the industry."Both Avatar 2 and the Lord of the Rings TV show are expected to resume production in New Zealand over the next few weeks.
Three minutes max, succinct opinions from Kiwis on topics of their choice. Here's New Zealand actress and acting coach Miranda Harcourt and her mother, Dame Kate Harcourt on kindness, Mother's Day and women in lockdown.
Three minutes max, succinct opinions from Kiwis on topics of their choice. Here's New Zealand actress and acting coach Miranda Harcourt and her mother, Dame Kate Harcourt on kindness, Mother's Day and women in lockdown.
This is an edited version of our recent live stream where Miranda discussed screen acting and naturalism. Miranda’s approach is based on years of writing and performing Verbatim theatre in prisons in New Zealand, Australia and the UK, as well as her work as an on-set acting coach with renowned actors and directors on films all over the world. In her work with actors and directors Miranda aims to shift paradigms, empowering creatives to realise their own talent. She introduces simple but innovative ways of thinking about and achieving connection and character. She has developed a series of tools and exercises for use in rehearsal and on-set that get actors to where they need to be, fast.
It might be a long time since we were running around a park or learning our A, B, Cs yet each and everyone of us is somebody’s child. And the way we parent inevitably reflects in some way how we were parented. How many times have you caught yourself talking to your child and thought ‘I sounded just like my mother!’. This episode explores the relationship between a mother and daughter - Dame Kate Harcourt and Miranda Harcourt and what we learn from our mothers. This inter-generational unit tell Suzy how they've co-parented and changed throughout the years and give their advice on what it takes to be a good mum. Tui's Mindful Moment looks at way to practise gratitude.
It might be a long time since we were running around a park or learning our A, B, Cs yet each and everyone of us is somebody's child. And the way we parent inevitably reflects in some way how we were parented. How many times have you caught yourself talking to your child and thought ‘I sounded just like my mother!'. This episode explores the relationship between a mother and daughter - Dame Kate Harcourt and Miranda Harcourt and what we learn from our mothers. This inter-generational unit tell Suzy how they've co-parented and changed throughout the years and give their advice on what it takes to be a good mum. Tui's Mindful Moment looks at way to practise gratitude.
Brenna and Joe travel to the other side of the world for an investigation into Margaret Mahy's 1984 Carnegie Medal winner, The Changeover and its 2017 film adaptation by Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie. Brenna appreciates the prickly, unconventional mother/daughter relationship, Joe unpacks how the film uses the 2011 earthquake to inform its narrative and, for the first time on the podcast, an ending dramatically alters the pair's appreciation of one of the texts. In homework: Brenna and Joe chat about the impact of Disney's closure of the FOX 2000 studio, which produced Love, Simon, The Hate U Give and other 'mid-tier' prestige films. Joe also introduces The Changeover star Nicholas Galitzine's upcoming Netflix series, Chambers, which also deals with mysterious events (the guy has a type). Links for next week: Webtoon: https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/orange-marmalade/list?title_no=97 TV series: https://www.viki.com/tv/26963c-orange-marmalade?locale=en If you want to connect with the show, use #HKHSPod on Twitter: Brenna: @brennacgray Joe: @bstolemyremote Or send us an email at hkhspod@gmail.com. See you on the page and on the screen!
Amanda takes Austin and listeners to wurch (witch church) with a breakdown of the subverted fairytale elements and treatment of puberty as witchcraft within Margaret Mahy's *The Changeover: a Supernatural Romance.* She delves into why fourteen-year-old protagonist Laura Chant is a boss and why the love interest, Sorry Carslile, is her trauma son. The episode considers questions like: What is up with the monsterification of teen girls? Why doesn't getting your period come with sweet magical perks? And why do so many movie adaptations fail to understand what makes the source material great? Content Warnings: Mentions of parental neglect and abuse, coping mechanisms brought on by trauma, child sickness, menstruation, and teen girls being sexualized and vilified. Also, this episode does contain minor spoilers for The Changeover book, and more significant spoilers for its movie adaption. Works cited: The Changeover: a Supernatural Romance by Margaret Mahy The Changeover (Film) "Fairy Tale and Myth in Mahy's The Changeover and The Tricksters" by Elliott Gose "The Changeover, A Fantasy of Opposites" by Josephine Raburn "The horror of female adolescence – and how to write about it" by Lorraine Berry "The Real Reason Women Love Witches" by Anne Theriault The Exorcist (film) Carrie (film) The Craft (film) The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (TV show)
An in-depth conversation with actor, director and acting-coach Miranda Harcourt
During this The Equity Foundation In Conversation Australian director Garth Davis ('Mary Magdalene', 'Lion') discusses his film-making process and his approach to working with actors. Garth is interviewed by esteemed producer/acting coach Miranda Harcourt. This event was held in Auckland in May with the support of Rialto Cinemas, Transmission Films and the Australian High Commission.
The Changeover is a New Zealand film with lots of promise based a book by Margaret Mahy. Its stars include Melanie Lynskey, Timothy Spall and Lucy Lawless and it's directed by Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie.
An in-depth chat with Wellington-based filmmaker and playwright Stuart McKenzie. We talk a lot about the adaptation of the Margaret Mahy novel The Changeover, the brand new feature film he co-directed with his partner Miranda Harcourt (a previous podcast guest)but we talk too about his writing across his life, his early plays and experimental theatre, his fascination with religion, his time abroad, the movie "For Good" and other writing projects. Get full access to Sounds Good! at simonsweetman.substack.com/subscribe
An in-depth chat with Wellington-based filmmaker and playwright Stuart McKenzie. We talk a lot about the adaptation of the Margaret Mahy novel The Changeover, the brand new feature film he co-directed with his partner Miranda Harcourt (a previous podcast guest)but we talk too about his writing across his life, his early plays and experimental theatre, his fascination with religion, his time abroad, the movie "For Good" and other writing projects.
Actor, director and acting coach Miranda Harcourt talks about taking a back seat to her three children, working with international talent and a pouch of ashes that has special significance.
An in-depth chat with actor/director/acting coach Miranda Harcourt. We talk through her 50-year career from child-star to coaching child-stars. She still works in film - acting and directing - but also has a career as an internationally renowned acting coach. Whether you know her from radio plays or kids TV (narrating Hairy Maclary), from her early defining role on NZ TV's "Gloss" or for her film work such as 'For Good' and 'The Rehearsal' you surely know at least some of her fine work. There's also experimental theatre, being the head teacher of the national drama school (Toi Whakaari)and all of the stories of her generosity with time and skills to theatre practitioners across New Zealand. We talked through it all as well as giving a big plug to the upcoming film she and partner Stuart McKenzie have co-directed, an adaptation of the classic Margaret Mahy book, The Changeover. Get full access to Sounds Good! at simonsweetman.substack.com/subscribe
An in-depth chat with actor/director/acting coach Miranda Harcourt. We talk through her 50-year career from child-star to coaching child-stars. She still works in film - acting and directing - but also has a career as an internationally renowned acting coach. Whether you know her from radio plays or kids TV (narrating Hairy Maclary), from her early defining role on NZ TV's "Gloss" or for her film work such as 'For Good' and 'The Rehearsal' you surely know at least some of her fine work. There's also experimental theatre, being the head teacher of the national drama school (Toi Whakaari)and all of the stories of her generosity with time and skills to theatre practitioners across New Zealand. We talked through it all as well as giving a big plug to the upcoming film she and partner Stuart McKenzie have co-directed, an adaptation of the classic Margaret Mahy book, The Changeover.