Kimberly Mohne Hill

Professor, Department Chair

Kimberly Mohne Hill is the Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance and a Professor of Voice & Speech and Acting with a scholarly emphasis in Dialect. She received her MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. She is also a certified Patsy Rodenburg™ Associate in the field of Voice, Speech and Presence training.

Professor Hill is known throughout the Bay Area and beyond as an in-demand Voice & Dialect Coach – having coached over 175 productions at such theaters as A.C.T., Berkeley Rep, TheatreWorks, San Jose Rep, San Jose Stage Company and Marin Theater Company…among others. Her work on the World Premiere of Pride & Prejudice: The Musical can be seen on Amazon Prime.

At SCU, Professor Hill teaches Acting, Voice and Speech, Dialects, Improvisation, and Musical Theatre. Additionally, she frequently leads Voice and Presentation Skills workshops for the University community at large and for corporate and social justice clients such as the Northern California Innocence Project (photo at right).

Kimberly Mohne Hill was named a Silicon Valley Artist Laureate by SVCreates in 2018

Kimberly Mohne Hill, winner of the 2022 Professor Joseph Bayma, S.J. Scholarship Award

and received SCU's Professor Joseph Bayma, S.J., Scholarship Award in 2022.

Select Scholarship Credits

Dialect Coaching

World Premiere of Pride & Prejudice: The Musical (TheatreWorks/Amazon)
Indecent (SF Playhouse; Nominated for Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award Best Specialty-Dialects 2023)
World Premiere Triangle (TheatreWorks)
World Premiere The House that Will Not Stand (Berkeley Rep/Yale Rep)

Directing/Assistant Directing

World Premiere of A Thousand Splendid Suns (A.D. - A.C.T/Theatre Calgary)
The Wolves (CityLights Theatre, San Jose)
The Seafarer (San Jose Stage Co.)

Directing samples

Acting

A Christmas Carol -Role of Mrs. Cratchit & Mrs. Fezziwig (San Jose Rep)
World Premiere A Certain Labor Day w/Carroll O’Connor - U/S & Voice Coach

Special Credits

Voice, Presence & Storytelling Workshop - Northern California Innocence Project - 2018
Voice, Speech & Storytelling Consulting - Koppett Corporate Training

Courses

Improv
Acting for All Majors
Voice, Speech & Presentation
Intermediate Acting
Acting Styles: Dialects, Musical Theatre
Mainstage Production Director

Publications

Scenes in Dialect for Young Actors
Monologues in Dialect for Young Actors, Volumes I & II