Conversations with Miranda Kathleen

Today we’d like to introduce you to Miranda Kathleen.

Hi Miranda, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
After a decade living all over Los Angeles (West Hollywood, Mid-city, the Valley….), I moved to the West Side in 2023 and, soon after, fell in love with beach volleyball. Spending long days on the sand was the perfect balance to the electricity and hum of the city. The idea struck me in January ’26 to combine my loves of entertainment and volleyball by writing the script that would come to be known as “The Strand.” We released the first five micro-episodes (1-2 minutes each) only on Instagram (@thestrandtv), where they’ve earned over a million views, and we resume production this August.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Of course not. Life is hard, no matter what path we take. It’s our job to choose the struggles we enjoy, which for me are acting, screenwriting and producing. I’ve spent months negotiating story, characters and dialogue with my amazing Co-writer, Bridget Stinson, who brought her competitive beach volleyball and professional TV writing experience to this project. Securing locations, wrangling cast and crew, and navigating countless, unpredictable factors has been time-consuming and expensive. I look forward to the day I can take all those other hats off in order to show up on set—fit and relaxed, ready to perform. A creative path brings immense challenges, but they’re exactly the kind that I enjoy.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
Like most creatives, I’m a multi-hyphenate: actress, screenwriter, producer, musician and micro-influencer (@mirandasnotfunny on Instagram). I specialize in stories that find hope in the face of impossible odds. My stories follow women in male-dominated spaces, Olympic hopefuls and other misfits. Their stories resonate with me because I, too, faced impossible odds to get to where I am today. As the daughter of two poor radio disc jockeys, I earned a theater scholarship to study acting at the prestigious Southern Methodist University, then moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film and television. Somehow I’ve made it work, but it certainly hasn’t been easy.

How do you think about luck?
I’ve had more good luck than bad, that’s for certain. I was incredibly lucky to be steered toward SMU by my high school theater teacher, even luckier to be admitted with nearly a full-ride in scholarship. I was lucky to find a great creative community here in LA, largely thanks to my script development group, The Groundlings and the indie comedy and film scenes. I was lucky to have a safe place to live during Covid, and even luckier to meet my now husband post-pandemic. He’s the reason I’m now on the West Side, which I love so dearly, and I’m very lucky that he has family here who are now my family, too.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://mirandakathleen.lovable.app/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mirandasnotfunny
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirandakathleen
• Other: https://www.instagram.com/thestrandtv

Image Credits
Marty Morris, Bahareh Ritter