Motorcyclist, martial artist, rock climber and rugby player. These are just a few other titles one can ascribe to writer, actor and producer Miranda Kwok. Dedicated to tackling any challenge, Miranda will take on just about any adventure. Miranda journeyed into the arts at the age of ten when she attended the Claude Watson School for the Arts, a multidisciplinary school for the performance and visual arts. Miranda made her television debut at the age of thirteen and since then has acquired over forty credits in film, television and theatre.Committed to rounding out her education and personal growth, Miranda completed an Honors Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Toronto. Soon after, Miranda made the journey west which proved fruitful in launching her career in film and television. Miranda had the privilege of participating in Project: Involve, a mentorship program at Film Independent in Los Angeles. Through the directors of Project: Involve, Miranda was recommended for and subsequently won a full scholarship award at The Los Angeles Film School for their Feature Development Program - which she completed with Honors. Miranda has since produced a number of short films, commercials, industrials and feature films that acquired worldwide distribution.In addition to a diverse education and career, Miranda also had the honor of working as a counsellor at a number of crisis centers and community shelters. It is there where she found a great diversity of people who enriched her life in very meaningful ways. Through the stories they entrusted in her, she gained invaluable insight and passion to provide support, hope and expression for others. Although her journey into screenwriting began with a formal arts education, it was only when she began to listen to others that she found any real insight and value in the art of storytelling. Miranda soon came to realize that in order to offer any kind of perspective and tell the kind of stories she wanted to tell, she had to make her own films. So she began to write...Miranda took on an endeavor to write an intensive historical epic, "Song of Silence" and came back with the top prize in the highly competitive Slamdance Screenplay Competition. In addition to Slamdance, Miranda also won a nomination by APA Film for the ABC New Talent Development Scholarship Grant Program and was also a finalist in several other screenwriting competitions.Since then, Miranda has written for some very notable directors and producers, including Oliver Stone. "Song of Silence" was optioned by Jeff Apple, producer of "In the Line of Fire" and "The Recruit". Attached to direct is Jonathan Kaplan who directed Jodi Foster in her Oscar winning performance in "The Accused" and Michelle Pfeiffer in her Oscar nomination for "Love Field."Encouraged to write for television, within months of completing her first spec script, Miranda was a Finalist for the NBC Writers On The Verge Program, was accepted into the CBS Diversity Institute Writers Mentoring Program, and then landed a position as a Staff Writer on "Spartacus: Blood and Sand," an original television drama based on the slave uprising against the ancient Roman Republic."Spartacus: Blood and Sand" is produced by Starz Media and Ghost House Pictures with executive producers Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, Joshua Donen and showrunner Steven DeKnight.

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