Giles Hogya
BA Miami University, PhD Northwestern University
Professor - Dean of Fine Arts
ghogya@finearts.uvic.ca
Design

First appointed as a Lecturer in the Department of Theatre at the University of Victoria in 1972, Dr. Giles Hogya is now a Full Professor.  He became Chair of the Department in 1995, and Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts in 1998.

A professional lighting designer and stage director, Giles is a Resident Artist at the Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre in New York, a position he has held for 25 years. As a student in France at the L’institute pour les étudiants Americains in Aix-en-Provence, Giles directed Tennessee Williams’ 27 Wagons Full of Cotton; in Kabba, Nigeria, as a Peace Corps Volunteer, he established and toured with his Children’s Theatre Company while teaching at the Kabba Teacher’s Training College.  During his two-and-a-half-year stay in Nigeria, he also produced a series of plays for young audiences for Nigerian Television, besides establishing a creative dramatics program at the University of Ibadan. In 1986, he directed and designed Ann Mortifee for the Canadian Youth Ambassadors for Peace, which toured Russia and the Ukraine.

In 1998, Giles produced and designed Krapp’s Last Tape for The UVic International Beckett Festival, which featured scholars and performers from six countries around the world.  In 2000, as part of the Orion Exchange Program, he taught for a term at Chulalongkorn University, in Bangkok, Thailand, where he also directed Waiting for Godot in Thai.  Other recent career highlights include designing the lighting for Shakespeare’s Henry V at the Jean Cocteau, and directing Beckett’s Endgame at the Phoenix Theatre.  He will direct Richard III in November 2006 as his final project before retiring from the University of Victoria in 2007.