ESP Biography
ANNIE LOGGINS, Animal-Adoring Actor with an Affinity for Accents
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Major: Earth Systems College: Stanford University Year of Graduation: 2011 |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
Annie has been acting her whole life, although her first official role was in second grade, when she played Frog in a self-directed scene from the book Frog and Toad Are Friends. Since then she has dived into Shakespeare, musicals, comedies, and bilingual plays, always exploring new roles and situations. She just graduated Stanford, where she studied Earth Systems (biology focus), her other great passion being animals. She loves all kinds of creatures, great and small, with personal favorites being swallows, sea otters, lemurs, frogs, and foxes. She aspires to be a Wildlife Biologist doing field research in South America or Madagascar, with maybe a little theatre on the side. She just returned from the Peruvian Amazon where she researched mammals and hunting impacts, realizing part of her life-long dream and meeting some fascinating creatures. Past Classes(Look at the class archive for more.)Why Can’t the English Teach Their Children How to Speak? The Art of British Accents in Splash! Fall 2011
Want to learn how to talk like the Queen? Harry Potter? Elizabeth Bennett? We’ll learn the sound changes, inflections, and speech style needed to pull off a good British accent. Students will need enthusiasm and a willingness to try sounds and practice short monologues, culminating in mini scene work. Come on, mate, have a go!
The World’s Largest Rodent, Dr Seuss Birds, and Other Amazonian Oddities in Splash! Fall 2011
Where parrots’ bills can crush bone, monkeys perform deafening choruses, and wild pigs stampede through the underbrush, the Amazon rainforest holds a wealth of amazing creatures. Come meet some funky fauna in this whirlwind introduction based on firsthand experience – no binoculars required!
Why Can't the English Teach Their Children How to Speak? in Splash! Fall 2008
Want to learn how to talk like Harry Potter? How about Elizabeth Bennet?
In this class we will discuss how specific sounds, words, and flow of speech can change a character's origin. Focusing mostly on Standard and Upper Class British (from Hermione Granger to Algernon Moncrief), we will also delve briefly into other accents, including New York, American Southern, and Scottish.
After practicing on the sounds themselves, we will try to make our accents sound natural in dialogue taken from various plays.
Be prepared to dive in with your mouth and ears open, and we'll have a lot of fun.
Cheerio, wot!
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