Kia Ora and welcome to my podcast! I am Miranda Harcourt and I coach actors and directors all over the world. My clients have won and been nominated for many Oscars, Golden Globes, Emmys and Baftas.

Do you want an insight into how they have achieved their award-winning performances?

Over on my Substack mirandaharcourt.substack.com you will find more than 50 articles about acting and directing. I have developed a series of tools and exercises for use in rehearsal and on-set that quickly get actors to where they need to be. You will find videos, images and references that will enrich your world and your work.

Now I am recording many of these key ideas and insights as podcasts so that you can listen wherever you are!

This is Episode Five and I talk about a useful tool to enrich your work immediately. I call it your VISTA. Let the world around you do the work. Let the room do the work. Let the reader do the work. Reverse the flow and be responsive to your surroundings. Outsource the energy so you can achieve ease and freedom in space.

Your VISTA is something you are aware of in the world around you, something you can see or hear. It is something that calls you, magnetizes you, beckons your attention. The light switch, your dog, your car, the local prison, another city, the moon. Your vista is anything outside the frame that helps make your performance more natural by helping you to achieve unselfconsciousness.

Here’s what actors and directors say about my approach:

Intuitive, unique, amazing — Nicole Kidman

Miranda’s skills as a coach place her at the top of her field. The work she does is unique anywhere in the world — Peter Jackson

Miranda is great — Jane Campion

Miranda really did teach me in that afternoon things that I still use to this day... if you can work with Miranda Harcourt, do it. She’s amazing — Melanie Lynskey

Miranda is brilliant... So encouraging, detailed and truthful — Ritu Arya

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