Ella Ryann Cottrell on Becoming Her Most Honest Self On a crowded week night in Athens, long after most students have closed their laptops and called it quits, Ella Ryann Cottrell is just getting started. The lights in the bar are low, the soundcheck hums in the background, and there’s that familiar hush she always feels right before she steps up to the mic, a kind of stillness she describes as “a quietness in my mind.” It’s funny, she’ll tell you, because stage fright was ne