‘Noises Off’ marks role reversal for South Bay director

After 12 years, Kimberly Mohne Hill knew it was time.

Hill is a fixture in the South Bay’s theater scene, as a busy director, sought-after dialect coach, and chair of Santa Clara University’s Department of Theatre and Dance. Yet in those years–from witnessing her daughters blossom from little girls to college students, then ensuring her terminally ill husband had, as she says, a “smooth and loving transition”–Hill had not set foot on stage as an actor. She last took on multiple roles in...