Sarah Shippobotham

Acting, Dialects

Head of the Actor Training Program

s.shippobotham@m.cc.utah.edu

Sarah teaches Freshman Acting, and Dialects to the Senior class. Sarah trained as an actor at The Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff (Wales). She worked professionally in Great Britain for fourteen years before receiving a Postgraduate Diploma in Voice Studies from The Central School of Speech and Drama in London.

Acting credits include Romeo and Juliet, Queen Christina, The Verge, A Doctor in Spite of Himself, Ruffian on the Stair, Ring Around the Moon, The Good Woman of Setzuan, Moll Cutpurse, and Easy Prey.

Dialect and Voice coaching credits include two seasons with The Shaw Festival (Ontario). Shows include The Return of the Prodigal, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Six Characters in Search of An Author, Love From a Stranger, The Lord of the Flies, and Matchmaker.

Sarah has worked for the Pioneer Theatre Company and The Salt Lake Acting Company, coaching such shows as A View From The Bridge, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Present Laughter, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Hysteria and various Fringe Theatre projects in London.