Miranda Tapsell has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 12 ratings. The most-rated is Debutante: Race, Resistance and Girl Power.
Debutante: Race, Resistance and Girl Power
Summary
This series contains mature themes and strong language and listener discretion is advised. They’re wearing ball gowns, they’re debutantes... and they’re black. The debs’ ball is a controversial colonial export but can it be empowering too? Australia’s most celebrated young playwright Nakkiah Lui and actress Miranda Tapsell put on their hats and gloves to find out. Nakkiah and Miranda are angry, young, vocal, Aboriginal and very, very funny. Join them on their journey, starting with a lesson on teatime etiquette in London where it all began, as they follow the debutante trail and discover that First Nations women across the globe have made this tradition their own. Nakkiah and Miranda ask: can beauty, poise and politeness actually empower them? Or is it better to get angry and start shouting? This is an Audible Original Podcast. Free for members. You can download all 9 episodes to your Library now.
©2020 Pipi Films Ltd (P)2020 Audible Australia Pty Ltd.
Top End Girl
Summary
'Ever since I was 13 years old, all I wanted to do was perform. It was an unusual dream for a kid from the Northern Territory to have...what I wanted for my life was a world away from what people knew and loved about the "Top End". Even though I've moved south to become an actor, the Territory has never left me. It's the place I go to when I want to feel whole again.' From Kakadu to Cannes, Miranda Tapsell is one of Australia's favourite actors. A proud Larrakia woman, she built a stellar career onstage and shot to fame in The Sapphires and then in Love Child and Doctor, Doctor. Growing up, Miranda often looked for faces like hers on our screens. There weren't many. And too often there was a negative narrative around Indigenous lives, and Aboriginal women especially. Now an award-winning actor, she decided to change things herself. Combining her love of romantic comedies with her love of Darwin, the Tiwi Islands and the Top End, Miranda wrote, produced and starred in the box office hit Top End Wedding. But who the hell co-writes, produces and acts in a film about a wedding in the same year they're having their own? Miranda Tapsell does! In this engaging and thought-provoking memoir, Top End Girl, Miranda shares the path she took to create a moving film about re-connection to family and culture at the same time as she was planning her own wedding. And, like all good storytellers, she holds a mirror up to the society we live in to show the prejudice that too often surfaces. Miranda knows that the key to change is to understand, and through the power of storytelling she is changing attitudes and expectations to unite us all.
©2020 Miranda Tapsell (P)2020 Hachette Australia Audio