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Gary Logan

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From 1993-2005, Gary Logan served as Chair of Voice and Speech at the National Theatre Conservatory (NTC) and the Voice, Text, & Dialect Coach for the Tony Award-winning Denver Center Theatre Company (DCTC), all located at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. He was endorsed for the voice position by Cicely Berry, the former Head of Voice for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and author of many books on the actor's voice. Since 1992, Mr. Logan has also been on the faculty of Canada's National Voice Intensive, held annually on the campus of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, where he teaches voice, Shakespearean text, and speech. Mr. Logan was a Voice & Dialect Coach for the Stratford Festival of Canada, Stratford, Ontario, during three of their seasons. He is on the advisory board of the National Center for Voice and Speech (NCVS), a scientific research facility dedicated to performers' voices and the dissemination of information concerning all facets of the human voice, and since its inception in 2000, he has been a faculty member of the Vocology Institute, an intense training program sponsored by the University of Iowa and conducted in the classrooms and laboratories of the NCVS. Mr Logan trained in voice and speech with Edith Skinner, Debbie Sussel, Kate Fitzmaurice, and Donna Snow. He is an acknowledged authority in the fields of philology, phonetics (IPA), dialects, and orthoepy. He is the chief editor of David Smukler's Speaking North American Naturally, co-author of Vocal Range & Intensity in Actors: A Studio vs. Stage Comparison appearing in the Journal of Voice, and is currently finishing his own book, The Eloquent Shakespeare: A Pronouncing Dictionary for the Complete Works, with Notes to Untie the Modern Tongue.

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