Rinda Frye (Faculty Director)
Faculty Director, teaches voice and stage speech, acting, Shakespeare, and theatre history. She recently directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Stop Kiss, Troilus and Cressida, and Woman in Mind for the University Theatre and Macbeth for the Repertory Company. She coaches voice and dialects for Actors Theatre of Louisville, including Tall Grass Gothic and At the Vanishing Point for the last Humana Festival and Blues for an Alabama Sky, Dracula, and A Christmas Carol this past season. She has worked as an actress with various theatres. Most recently, she played Pam in Tender at the Kentucky Center for the Arts. She performed in Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Winter’s Tale, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry IV Part 1 and A Comedy of Errors for the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival as well as working as voice coach. She was co-founder and artistic director of the Utah Shakespeare Players where she also directed and acted. Dr. Frye’s Ph.D. is from the University of Oregon and she has published a book, William Poel's Hamlets: the Direct or as Critic, and several scholarly articles.