Date: June 11th
Location: Actors' Guild Hub at Spotlight, 7 Leicester Place, London, WC2H 7RJ
Time: 18.00 - 21.00

Give your General Southern American accent a thorough workout in this intensive 3-hour accent bootcamp.

General Sourthern is the geographically non-specific sister of General American, the foundation Southern accent that is applied before the state sounds are built on top. Learn the top sound shifts from RP and how to avoid sounding like a dodgy Dallas cameo. You will be given a supporting pack and audio files to help you with your ongoing practise.

This workshop is an intensive accent workshop. You will be given a lot of information in a short period of time and it is not recommended for accent first-timers or those specifically seeking 1-2-1 feedback.

Dialect Coach Sarah Shepherd holds an MA in Voice Studies from The Central School of Speech and Drama. She both teaches and has taught voice and accent at many of the country's top Drama Schools including LAMDA, Bristol Old Vic, Drama Centre, Italia Conti, Central School of Speech and Drama, The Caravanserai, LSDA and The Poor School. She has also taught future Voice teachers on the MA Voice Course at Central School and The National Theatre (INSET). Sarah also works as a dialect coach on film and TV and has her own private practise - The Pronunciation Rooms - in Covent Garden.

Feedback from members who have taken our classes with Sarah:

"Very well organised and very well delivered. Sarah has an engaging style... She really brought to life the key skill elements of building an effective accent."

"Sarah's workshop was absolutely flawless. So informative, clear and well taught. She's brilliant and I can't wait to do more classes with her. I really had a good time and I felt like I came away with something tangible to work on."

"I thought Sarah was terrific... very talented and an extremely good teacher."

"It was truly a pleasure working with Sarah, she is amazing. She made us all feel really relaxed and I think as a group we all had fun. I felt really confident at the end of session and she gave me excellent advice... bring her back!"

"The workshop wasn't good at all - it was FANTASTIC!!!!!! Sarah is a brilliant teacher - clearly explaining and demonstrating the techniques behind the accent and supplying excellent notes to support learning after the event! I want to attend another accent workshop run by Sarah as soon as I can! It was a very enjoyable, entertaining and worthwhile evening."

"The workshop was wonderful, very productive."

"Sarah's workshop was fantastic. She has a great knowledge of phonetics and breaks the accent down to its core principles, making it possible for anyone to get to grips with it!"

"This workshop was very helpful. Sarah is brilliant and I took away loads of material to practise what I learnt."

"Sarah was excellent. I'm so happy with how it went!"

"Sarah Sheppard's accent intensive workshop was truly insightful."