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Miranda

Barnett

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Originally from Greenville, SC., Miranda is an actor, dialect/acting coach, director, and adjunct professor of theatre at The South Carolina School of the Arts at Anderson University.  Miranda studied voice performance at Florida State University, choral conducting at Furman University, and received an MFA in Acting from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association.

 

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While she has travelled far and wide, the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains have always beckoned, and now she is raising her son, Wilkes, in the home acquired by Miranda's great grandparents in 1936. Wilkes is the sixth generation to live on that land.

THEATRE (select credits)

The Wolves

Other Desert Cities 

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

The Heath (World Premiere) 

The Heath  

Cry It Out    

Clybourne Park

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike

The Rocky Horror Show

Boeing Boeing

Richard III

Cabaret

Metamorphoses

Lamplight and Shadow

Screwtape

Steel Magnolias

A Christmas Carol

My Fair Lady

Tennessee Playboy

God of Carnage

Judith of Bethulia

Twelfth Night

A Flea In Her Ear

Sweeney Todd

Whose Wives Are They Anyway?

Soccer Mom

Brooke

Yitzhak

Lauren

Lauren

Adrienne

Bev / Kathy

La Marquise de Merteuil

Masha

Magenta

Gabriella

Catesby

Fräulein Kost, Helga

Therapist, Nursemaid, others

Elizabeth Poe, Blackbird, others

Queenie

Truvy

Mrs. Cratchit, Ensemble

Lady Boxington, Mrs. Hopkins

Widow Quince  U/S

Veronica Novak

Arga

Olivia

Raymonde Chandebise

Beggar Woman / Lucy

Karly McGachen

The Warehouse Theatre

LEAN Ensemble Theatre

The Warehouse Theatre

Merrimack Repertory Theatre

The Warehouse Theatre

The Warehouse Theatre

The Warehouse Theatre

The Warehouse Theatre

The Warehouse Theatre

The Warehouse Theatre

The Warehouse Theatre

The Warehouse Theatre

The Warehouse Theatre

The Warehouse Theatre

The Warehouse Theatre

The Warehouse Theatre

Clinton Area Showboat Theatre

Triad Stage

Triad Stage

Triad Stage

Triad Stage/THTR 232

Triad Stage THTR 232

The Distracted Globe

Centre Stage

Centre Stage

Centre Stage

Anne Tromsness

Chip Egan

Andrew Scoville

Sean Daniels

Sean Daniels

Rebekah Suellau

Jay Briggs

Matthew Earnest

Mark Waldrop

Richard St. Peter

Anne Tromsness

Alexander Greenfield

Shannon Robert

Shannon Robert

Paul Savas

Paul Savas

Kristy Cates

Bryan Conger

Bryan Conger

Preston Lane

Matthew Teague Miller

Danille Keil

Jerrold Scott

Richard St. Peter

David Sims

Glenda Manwaring

FILM

Exeter

Alms

Rise Above the Fall (music video)

36 Hours

The Devil's Game

Another Day

Supporting

Supporting

Lead

Lead

Supporting

Supporting

Elsewhere Station

Elsewhere Station

Big Merlin Productions

UNCG Campus Movie Fest

The University of North Carolina School of the Arts

UNCSA

Cameron Cook

Cameron Cook

Adam Wagner

Devin Miller

Chelsey Cummings

Adam Witmer

TRAINING

Master of Fine Arts in Acting: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Teaching Certification in Choral Music Education:  Furman University

Bachelor of Arts in Music - Voice Performance:  Florida State University

Acting: Jim Wren, John Gulley, Preston Lane

Voice and Dialects: Christine Morris, Jayce Tromsness

Singing: Susan Lyle, Nancy Walker, Larry Gerber, Trudy Fuller

Movement and Combat: Denise Gabriel, Jim Wren

SPECIAL SKILLS

Excellent ear for accents, dialects, and tight harmonies; IPA proficient; Good sight reading skills

Singing (mezzo soprano / alto) - advanced; Piano – intermediate; Banjo - beginner

Orchestral / Choral Conducting, Musical Composition and Orchestration

Certified Sommelier by The Court of Master Sommeliers; Firearm proficient (pistol, rifle, shotgun)

Dance – good mover;  SCUBA certified; SC licensed driver

Resume

Gallery

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Clybourne Park

Clybourne Park

Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike

Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike

La Marquise de Merteuil

La Marquise de Merteuil

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

The Rocky Horror Show

The Rocky Horror Show

Magenta

Magenta

The Rocky Horror Show

The Rocky Horror Show

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Boeing Boeing

Boeing Boeing

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Truvy 1.a

Richard III

Richard III

A Flea In Her Ear

A Flea In Her Ear

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God of Carnage

God of Carnage

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

The Noodle Doodle Box

The Noodle Doodle Box

Hot n Throbbing

Hot n Throbbing

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night

Cabaret

Cabaret

Cabaret

Cabaret

Cabaret

Cabaret

Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd

Lamplight and Shadow

Lamplight and Shadow

Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses

Media

Articles

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Reviews

Yitzhak In Hedwig and the Angry Inch

"In a role that won Lena Hall a Tony Award for the 2014 revival with Neil-Patrick Harris, Barnett’s Jewish Croatian immigrant shows an actor in top-form, pulling off the drag king persona with measured precision that crescendos into epic transformation."

-Sandy Staggs, Carolina Curtain Call

"As Yitzhak, Miranda Barnett is also outstanding - grounded, hurt, and ultimately angelic. Barnett reaches deep here, showing us a whole new side, a whole new range, with a transformative singing voice to boot."

-Neil Shurley, Broadway World - South Carolina

 

Lauren  in The Heath

 

"The marvel is that Barnett and Judy collaborate to inhabit these characters with such care and humanity that the verisimilitude is gripping. Before she strikes the first chord on the banjo, Barnett becomes Lauren"

 

-Nancy Grossman, Broadway World- Boston

"I want to tell you how... Barnett got me choked up early in the run, and smiling almost the whole time, and how her singing and playing the banjo turned an evening at the Warehouse Theatre into a sort of worship service."

-Neil Shurley, Broadway World - South Carolina

La Marquise de Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dangereuses

"As the deliciously destructive marquise, Barnett comes equipped with aristocratic features and a stunning physique that would be the envy of the late 18th-century French court. Her graceful, vulnerable, flawed marquise is kind of like a cat—playful one minute, claws out in a flash, fastidious, wary and conniving. Bottom line: Barnett is the show or, as the French would say, its pièce de ré·sis·tance."

-John Jeter, fête Magazine

 

 

"Barnett, fresh from her comic turn in 'Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,' is diabolically delectable in a robust part that easily ranks among the echelons of coveted juicy roles such as Lady Macbeth or Blanche DuBois. She brims with confidence, has flawless articulate delivery and captivatingly commands our attention, and that of her rival when she beckons him in a come hither move from across the stage to kiss her hand."

-Sandy Staggs, Carolina Curtain Call


"Miranda Barnett, always striking and here particularly so, stars as La Marquise de Merteuil... As La Marquise, Miranda Barnett gives a commanding performance that is both fire and ice."

-Neil Shurley, The Greenville News

Mascarille in The Bungler

"Yes, Moliere wrote Mascarille for a man, but when a talent as formidable as Barnett is on the scene,a director seizes the chance... You'd think her balance would have to be affected by the injury, but it clearly isn't, not the way she bestrides the stage like a colossal star."

-New York theatre critic, Peter Filichia

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Truvy in Steel Magnolias

"Barnett’s Truvy ... serves as this group’s unofficial ringleader, and you couldn’t hope for a more assured or spectacular one. I’m not sure my focus ever completely left Barnett whenever Truvy was on-stage. She didn’t even have to do anything. Barnett was simply alert and aware and constantly in the moment, and her physicality and readings were so controlled yet so unfussy – and so freaking hilarious – that it didn’t at all seem like she was taking over the show, intentionally or otherwise; the show just seemed to naturally gravitate toward her." 

-Mike Schultz, River Cities' Reader

"Truvy ... is played spot-on by Miranda Barnett. Barnett portrays just the right amount of sexy mixed with common sense and love…especially romance. Watch out…she can be a scene stealer; her stage presence is captivating and always interesting to watch."

-Jami R. Smith, Clinton Herald

Catesby in Richard III

"Miranda Barnett deserves extra praise for her marvelous take on the assassin Catesby. She's one of those actors who can make Shakespearean dialogue sound utterly natural as she speaks it — "trippingly on the tongue" to quote a different play. She's also got a striking physical appearance that is at times comic, at other moments absolutely bone chilling."

-Neil Shurley, The Greenville News

Press

Past Production Promos

Adrienne in Cry it Out

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Lauren in The Heath

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Contact Miranda:

mirandabarnett360@yahoo.com

Contact Miranda's Commercial Agent:

George Corell

Millie Lewis Greenville

864.299.1101

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