Fran Gebhard

MFA University of British Columbia
Senior Instructor
Acting
fgebhard@uvic.ca

Brief Biography

Fran Gebhard has performed numerous roles in theatres across Canada.  She also does regular performances of her one-woman show Looking For Kitty.  For the Phoenix, Fran was seen as Martha in Amigo’s Blue Guitar. Fran gives workshops for Theatre BC members on a regular basis and has also adjudicated most zone festivals.  She was the guest adjudicator for Theatre Saskatchewan’s regional festival in 2005.

Fran had a fourteen year association with the Banff Centre, serving as Program Head of the Playwrights’ Colony for much of that time and coordinator of the Screenwriters’ Workshop which she initiated with Charles Isreal. Her dramaturgical work continues with the Playwrights Theatre Centre. Fran happily returns to UVic from teaching acting and directing at the University of Regina.  Her recent directing credits include The School for Scandal, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Affections of May, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again. She directs the 2007 Phoenix production of Crackpot.  

Film and television credits include Blue City Slammers (for which she received a Genie nomination), The Chris Issak Show, Dead Zone,Taken and soon to be released Case No.39 with Renée Zellweger.