Amanda Quaid's guest appearances

Amanda Quaid

Playing On Air: Short Audio Plays

Words First: Talking Text in Opera

Crossroads Cafe

Acting Business Boot Camp

Lynn Nottage

Tennessee Williams

Peter Sagal

Mark Bennington

Billie Jean King

Marco Ramirez

John Guare

Jesse Eisenberg

Mike Reiss

Scott Freeman

David Walker

Douglas Kearney

Jason Gray

Karen Chilton

Frank Verderosa

OwlTail

Hear that?  In ECHO AND NARCISSUS, playwright Amanda Quaid's newfangled take on an infamous myth from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a young woman falls in love with a narcissist after a vengeful wife condemns her to a unique fate. The sprightly production is directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, stars Sarah Manton, Christian Conn, and Mia Katigbak, and features a kinetic score by composer Tom Kochan. After the play, Playing on Air (playingonair.org) founder and consulting director Claudia Catania and executive director Yvie Jones dive into conversation with the playwright, director, and actors. 

Hear that? In ECHO AND NARCISSUS, playwright Amanda Quaid's newfangled take on an infamous myth from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a young woman falls in love with a narcissist after a vengeful wife condemns her to a unique fate. The sprightly production is directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, stars Sarah Manton, Christian Conn, and Mia Katigbak, and features a kinetic score by composer Tom Kochan. After the play, Playing on Air (<a href="http://www.playingonair.org" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">playingonair.org</a>) founder and consulting director Claudia Catania and executive director Yvie Jones dive into conversation with the playwright, director, and actors.

ECHO AND NARCISSUS by Amanda Quaid

Keturah talks to playwright, librettist, and actor, Amanda Quaid about her left turn into writing opera libretti, and her new adaptation for Heartbeat Opera, The Extinctionist with Daniel Schlosberg.Amanda Quaid: http://www.amandaquaid.com/Daniel Schlosberg: https://danschlosberg.com/The Extinctionist: https://www.heartbeatopera.org/extinctionist

Keturah talks to playwright, librettist, and actor, Amanda Quaid about her left turn into writing opera libretti, and her new adaptation for Heartbeat Opera, The Extinctionist with Daniel Schlosberg. Amanda Quaid: <a href="http://www.amandaquaid.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.amandaquaid.com/</a> Daniel Schlosberg: <a href="https://danschlosberg.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://danschlosberg.com/</a> The Extinctionist: <a href="https://www.heartbeatopera.org/extinctionist" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.heartbeatopera.org/extinctionist</a>

Amanda Quaid and Adapting The Extinctionist

About Amanda: Amanda Quaid has over 15 years of experience teaching speech, dialects, and language skills to actors and other speakers from around the world. In addition to her coaching on plays, films, and television, she maintains a thriving private practice in New York City. She's been featured as a dialect expert on WNYC, and her book, American Accent Drills for British and Australian Speakers was released in 2020. 1. Oral Posture: Position your articulators are in for the Duration of the Accent ie: A low jaw, pursed lips 2. Signature Sounds: The vowels, consonants, and intonation Axis of Expressivity (Pitch variety) How Amanda approaches American Accent Acquisition (as opposed to accent reduction) 3.  Find out what the Accent brings out in you Techniques for rehearsals, performances, and auditions The Importance of Breath Inhale— The act of taking in the partner Exhale— The act of giving a part of yourself The Miller Method

About Amanda: Amanda Quaid has over 15 years of experience teaching speech, dialects, and language skills to actors and other speakers from around the world. In addition to her coaching on plays, films, and television, she maintains a thriving private practice in New York City. She's been featured as a dialect expert on WNYC, and her book, American Accent Drills for British and Australian Speakers was released in 2020. 1. Oral Posture: Position your articulators are in for the Duration of the Accent ie: A low jaw, pursed lips 2. Signature Sounds: The vowels, consonants, and intonation Axis of Expressivity (Pitch variety) How Amanda approaches American Accent Acquisition (as opposed to accent reduction) 3.  Find out what the Accent brings out in you Techniques for rehearsals, performances, and auditions The Importance of Breath Inhale— The act of taking in the partner Exhale— The act of giving a part of yourself The Miller Method

Episode 112: Three Steps to Learning an Accent with Amanda Quaid

Tony Shalhoub and Kristine Nielsen star in Amanda Quaid’s THE CLAM, the Second Place winner of Playing on Air’s 2019 James Stevenson Prize competition.    After a lifetime of playing it safe , a wistful clam (Shalhoub) decides to come out of his shell with help from a therapist (Nielsen). His friends are disappearing without a trace, he’s lost touch with thousands of his children, and he’s desperate for a pearl to call his own. Alternately tongue-in-cheek and deeply identifiable, THE CLAM is a comedy for anyone who’s ever felt adrift in their search for happiness.    Tony nominee Moritz von Stuelpnagel (Broadway’s Bernhardt/Hamlet, Hand to God) directs Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe winner Shalhoub (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” The Band’s Visit, “Monk”) and Tony nominee Nielsen (Gary: A Sequel to Titus Androninus, PoA’s Wildwood Park). The opening episode of PoA’s 2020 Spring Season, THE CLAM was recorded live at New York’s Pershing Square Signature Center. 

Tony Shalhoub and Kristine Nielsen star in Amanda Quaid’s THE CLAM, the Second Place winner of Playing on Air’s 2019 James Stevenson Prize competition.  After a lifetime of playing it safe , a wistful clam (Shalhoub) decides to come out of his shell with help from a therapist (Nielsen). His friends are disappearing without a trace, he’s lost touch with thousands of his children, and he’s desperate for a pearl to call his own. Alternately tongue-in-cheek and deeply identifiable, THE CLAM is a comedy for anyone who’s ever felt adrift in their search for happiness.  Tony nominee Moritz von Stuelpnagel (Broadway’s Bernhardt/Hamlet, Hand to God) directs Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe winner Shalhoub (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” The Band’s Visit, “Monk”) and Tony nominee Nielsen (Gary: A Sequel to Titus Androninus, PoA’s Wildwood Park). The opening episode of PoA’s 2020 Spring Season, THE CLAM was recorded live at New York’s Pershing Square Signature Center.