Sandra Shotwell

Voice and Speech

Actor Training Program

sandra.shotwell@utah.edu

Sandra Shotwell is a Professor of Theatre teaching voice, speech and acting in the Actor Training Program (ATP). She has an M.F.A. in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, an Advanced Diploma in Voice and Speech (ADVS), with Distinction, from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and is a Certified Laban-Bartenieff Movement Analyst (CLMA). Sandra has been a member of the Board of Directors with the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, Inc. (VASTA) and an editor of the VASTA Newsletter.

She has worked with Pioneer Theatre Company as vocal/dialect coach, actress, and dramaturg. With the department she has directed BEAUX' STRATAGEM, ANNA CHRISTIE, STREET SCENE, PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD, TOP GIRLS, MEASURE FOR MEASURE, LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, DANCING AT LUGHNASA, PUSSYCAT, ARMS AND THE MAN, and A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE; with the Utah Classical Greek Theatre Festival TROJAN WOMEN, PERSIANS, HIPPOLYTUS, and OEDIPUS AT COLONUS, which toured to Greece in 2004. Along with directing, she has assisted with vocal and dialect coaching for departmental productions and guest coached with the Oregon and Alabama Shakespeare Festivals and the Utah Opera, and guest directed with Salt Lake Acting Company, Creede Repertory Theatre, and the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Classical Theater Training Program.

She was the recipient of the College of Fine Arts first Students' Choice Teaching Award, and in 2004 received the prestigious University of Utah Distinguished Teaching Award.