Rick Walters is Chair of KCACTF Region III, and Professor of Theatre and Director of Theatre Recruitment at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin where he teaches acting and voice in the BFA program. Rick has been a member of the acting companies at the Guthrie Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, The Empty Space Theatre in Seattle, and a core member of Picture This–-a professional improv group specializing in theatre for social and corporate programs, and health and wellness education. He is a recipient of the Kennedy Center–-American College Theatre Festival Actors Center Fellowship. He is also a certified associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, and holds a level-one certification in Margolis Method (a physical approach to acting). He has taught acting, voice and movement at the University of Minnesota and Indiana University at Indianapolis; and has been influential in developing educational theatre programs at the Guthrie Theatre, Stepping Stone Theatre, Park Square Theatre, Young Audiences of Indiana and others. Rick holds an MFA in acting from the University of Minnesota and a B.S. in theatre from the University of Evansville.