Miranda was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her MFA from the Actors Studio in New York, her BA in Theatre & German from Chico State, and studied at the University of Tuebingen in Germany. She moved to New York City at 22.

Since 2013 Miranda has been creating and producing her own work for herself as an actor. She is the founder of  Hey Jonte! Productions, and the pandemic-born live streaming theater outlet, Back Porch Theater. She collaborates frequently with Greater Boston Area playwright John Minigan, and originated the role of Anna in Minigan’s BREAKING THE SHAKESPEARE CODE in Chicago and New York. She is currently workshopping Minigan’s original one-woman show, re(Dressing) Miss Havisham. 

She has originated roles in several new plays since 2010 including Mara, GREASEMONKEY; Tessa, ST. FRANCIS; and Sully in THE SHARK PLAY. She has just retired her one-woman show, GOOD & KISSED, after touring it for seven years, and is currently developing its counterpart.

She has played Nina: The Seagull, Masha: Three Sisters, Miss Julie, Mary Stuart, Tracy: Seascape with Sharks and Dancer, and Mercy: I Am Yours, and most recently, Sybil: Private Lives, at Saco River Theatre in Maine.

As a playwright, her plays have been produced across the country and appear in three Smith & Kraus books. (Best Plays From American Theatre Festivals 2015 & Contemporary Monologues for a New Theater, 2017, The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2022) Her play, St. Francis, is in development for a feature film. 

As a poet, she has soundly been rejected by The New Yorker.

Offstage, she spent two years exploring the country in her trusty van, Mathilda, then spent another two years in Texas, where she worked in dog rescue.

She drinks an exorbitant amount of coffee, loves thrift stores, yoga, and the paranormal, but most of all, being mama to her two rescue dogs, Red and Trudy.

Member of Actors Equity and Dramatists Guild. Miranda’s plays can be found on New Play Exchange.