Miranda Harcourt on How to Learn and Use Text
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4 August 2020
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Applications Close 3 August 2020 8:00 pm

Synopsis
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4 August 2020
10:00 am - 11:00 am
In this online Equity 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. Please note: This livestream will take place at 10am Australian Eastern Standard Time. 12pm NZ Time. You will be sent a Zoom link after registering.
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Miranda Harcourt
Globally renowned as a performance-pilot, not only does Miranda support stars at the highest level, but also guides emerging talents into stellar careers.Her clients have won and been nominated for multiple Oscars, Golden Globes, Emmys, BAFTAs and AAFTAs. She has lifted up countless careers through her work at labs and schools like TIFF, NYU Tisch, London Film School, UK’s National Film and Television School and Toi Whakaari. Miranda shifts paradigms, empowering actors to realize and activate their own talent. Whether it is on-set, in rehearsal or in her active masterclasses specifically developed for Zoom, she introduces simple, fast, innovative approaches and tools that get actors to where they need to be, fast.A pioneering practitioner of verbatim, Miranda has just completed an acclaimed season of TRANSMISSION: BETA written and co-directed by her husband Stuart McKenzie, a play about the unexpected and tragic fallout from New Zealand’s renowned Covid response.You can read more about the startling impact of Miranda’s key tools including Connection, Internal Landscape in her on-line textbook NOTES FOR ACTORS AND DIRECTORS mirandaharcourt.substack.com