Amanda Quaid

Poetry became a lifeline for amanda, a form to organize the chaos and pain of day-to-day life into order and beauty. Adapted, directed & animated by amanda quaid based on a poem by peggy pope featuring mischa tedesco, john leonard thompson made using hand-crafted stop-motion collage animation, toys. In echo and narcissus, amanda quaid’s newfangled take on ovid’s metamorphoses, a girl condemned to repeat the words spoken to her falls in love with a narcissist.

Amanda has taught diction, dialects, heightened language skills, voice, and breathing to actors and others for over 20 years. With amanda quaid, olaf lawecki, salena qureshi awards: Kill local la jolla playhouse cast photo xochitl romero, carolyn braver, matthew amendt, candy buckley, amanda quaid

Amanda began teaching speech and voice at age 19, commuting from vassar college on weekends to work with immigrants on accent reduction. Letterpress broadsides and poster prints handmade by amanda. Essays — amanda quaid email address sign up