This weekend I am about to fly back to Kathmandu for two months coaching on a project in Nepal, so I thought I would make this week's Substack the answers to a Q+A I just did with the BA students in Film Studies and the BA students in Acting for Stage and Screen at Harding University, in Arkansas. I really appreciated these insightful questions from the students' questions about acting, directing, coaching and the world of screen. Thanks to Bryan Hudkins, their lecturer, for asking me!

BRYAN: We are in an acting for camera course, it's a range of people, some from film studies, some from stage and musical theatre, some from directing. Miranda, we have been studying your tools via your Substack, and now we want to hear from you – and about your origins.

MIRANDA: Well, my mother was an actress, my father was a writer and broadcaster. So I just got into acting like a lot of actors’ kids, the opportunity came along when I was about two. …