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Steven Rimke

Faculty Member

Steven Rimke

Biography

Steven Rimke teaches acting, dialects, phonetics, voiceover, and voice for the stage. His areas of research expand into gender-affirming voice, accents and dialects, and decolonizing/rebuilding theatre curriculum. He holds his MFA in Voice Studies from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, (London England) and a BFA in Acting with a minor in Greek and Roman Studies from the University of Calgary (Calgary Canada).

Education

MFA, University of London - Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, 2018

Major: Voice and Speech

Teaching

THEA 4122

Speaking Shakespeare-BFA, Spring 2025

THEA 1113

Voice and Speech I, Spring 2025

THEA 3122

Voice and Speech II-BFA, Spring 2025

THEA 3122

Voice and Speech II-BFA, Spring 2025

Presentations

Rimke, Steven , Vocal Combat Technique Teachers Conference, "VCT PowerPoint", Vocal Combat Technique, Virtual (Host is in Cincinnati, OH). (January 12, 2025)
Rimke, Steven , Embodied Voice Collective, "Voice for Actors_ The Forms of Emphasis", Moving Voice Institute; Kaleidoscope Theatre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. (July 11, 2024)
Rimke, Steven , Vocal Violence, "Vocal Violence", Utah Valley University. (April 5, 2024)
Rimke, Steven , Dialogue of Inclusion, "Rethinking how we speak ", School of the Arts , Jones Theatre UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY. (January 25, 2024)
Rimke, Steven (Co-Presenter), ATHE 2023, "Voice, Acting, and the Search for Authenticity", Austin, Texas. (August 3, 2023)
Rimke, Steven (Presenter & Author), Rossoff, Matthew (Presenter & Author), ATHE: Rehearsing the Possible_ Practicing Reparative Creativity, "Freeing the Decolonized Voice_ An examination of decolonizing the written text and calling in inclusive language within teaching the Linklater pedagogy.", ATHE, Detroit Michigan. (July 30, 2022)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Rimke, Steven , "Book Review. Pritner, Cal and Colaianni, Louis. How to Speak Shakespeare. Santa Monica Press LLC, 2001. 142 pp." (Issue: 1, vol. 39). Texas: Interdisciplinary Humanities HERA (Humanities Education Research Association).

Awards

Wolverine Sighting Award

Utah Valley University - February 9, 2025

A colleague of ours in the theatre department was directing a show in the Spring of 2025 and had a medical emergency preventing him from going to rehearsal. With only an hours notice, I lead rehearsal, helped with staging, filtered actor and technical questions and updated the director once he returned to rehearsal.

Spot Award

Utah Valley University - November 15, 2023

In order to support the productions here at UVU, outside of my load I offered my time and services to vocal coach, help stage, and provide intimacy coaching for the two productions in the Fall of 2023. Collectively, this was roughly 40 hours of coaching over two months. The award was for $1000.