Kimberly Mohne Hill
Kimberly Mohne Hill has been acting, teaching, coaching, and directing in the Bay Area for over 15 years. She received her Master’s degree in Acting from A.C.T. in San Francisco.
Along with teaching here at Santa Clara University, she has taught at A.C.T., Notre Dame de Namur University, and Academy of Art University. She spends her summers teaching acting in the Broadway by the Bay/Notre Dame de Namur Summer Music Conservatory. Also a noted voice & dialect Coach, Kimberly has coached over 50 productions at most of the major Bay Area theater companies, including coaching Carroll O’Connor in his self-written world premiere of A Certain Labor Day.
She continues to coach shows for such companies as San Jose Repertory Theater, TheatreWorks, American Musical Theater of San Jose, Stanford Summer Theater, and San Jose Stage Company among others. Here at Santa Clara University, Kimberly served as dialect coach for Pentecost, The Importance of Being Earnest, A View From the Bridge, A Piece of My Heart and Lost in Yonkers. Additionally, she has published two books for young actors on the subject of dialects: Monologues in Dialect for Young Actors and Scenes in Dialect for Young Actors, and she is working on Volumes II of each of the books.
Her directing credits include: The Odd Couple (SJSU), Machinal (A.D. for Amy Freed at Studio A.C.T.), The Last Five Years (staged concert), Six Years (Dragon Theatre), I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (staged concert), and Songs for a New World (SCU).
A professional actress as well, some favorite roles she has performed include: “Maggie” in Dancing at Lughnasa, “Julie” in Miss Julie, “Eva Braun” in Summit Conference, “Chrissy” in Love of a Pig and the understudy role of “Josie” in A Certain Labor Day.
