May I Stay

Miranda wrapped filming the lead role in Liyi Li’s May I Stay, a short about a podcast host who spends the night with a much younger man as she comes to terms with her life choices in the face of her retirement.

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HERE Screened at 2023 March on Washington Film Festival

HERE was screened at Pulpits, Protest, & Power, the 2023 March on Washington Film Festival, where it won special mention in the Emerging Narratives category. HERE was also selected for the 2022 Toronto International Black Film Festival and the 2022 Pan African Film Festival, where it was nominated for Best Narrative Short Flm. Miranda plays a teacher with toxic practices in the classroom in this film about reclaiming the power of your own name and culture.

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The One Who

The One Who is a devised work in process created by company members of ARTFARM in Middletown, CT. The One Who explores the concept of compassion, and is intended to be presented at The Sanctuary Environmental Retreat and Land Trust in East Haddam, CT.

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Moonshiners Workshop

In Moonshiners, an original play by Columbia playwriting MFA candidate Lillian Mottern, Miranda played the landlord of an apartment building in Los Angeles during fire season in this workshop production.

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Married to the Bag Screenings

Married to the Bag, written and directed by Zane Bhansali, was screened at the Wisconsin Film Festival, Door County Film Festival, Nyack Film Festival, and Columbia Film Festival in Maryland. Miranda plays a woman whose husband has recently left her for someone else.

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Arizona streaming from Harry Warren Theater

Miranda starred in Arizona, by Juan Carlos Rubio Cruz, a play about a woman who slowly comes to terms with the reality of her husband’s obsession as a vigilante stationed near the Arizona border. The production, directed by Dorea Slagle and co-starring Emerson Buchholz, was staged and filmed during the Covid pandemic at Brooklyn’s historic Harry Warren Theater.

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Performance, the film

Performance, written and directed by Council Brandon, is a short film about a white woman who becomes obsessed with a younger black woman she meets at a diversity-based consciousness raising group. Miranda plays L, the lead character, searching for a sense of identity.

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The Vagina Monologues

Miranda played “The Woman Who Likes to Make Vagina’s Happy,” the lesbian dominatrix sex worker, in The Vagina Monologues at the Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford, CT

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