Fran Gebhard
Canadian actress and theatre director
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Fran Gebhard is a Canadian actress and theatre director.[2] She is most noted for her performance in the 1987 film Blue City Slammers, for which she received a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 9th Genie Awards.[3] She is currently a professor at the University of Victoria.[citation needed]
Fran Gebhard | |
|---|---|
| Education | University of British Columbia (MFA)[1] |
| Occupations | Actress, director, and professor |
Career
Gebhard has had supporting or guest roles in the films A Piano for Mrs. Cimino, Police Academy 3: Back in Training, Love and Murder, Ernest Goes to School and Case 39, and the television series Check It Out!, Friday the 13th: The Series, T. and T., The Dead Zone, The Chris Isaak Show and The L Word. As a director, her work has included productions of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Wreckage, The School for Scandal, Crackpot, The Affections of May, Twelfth Night, For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again and A Midsummer Night's Dream.[2]
She has also been associated with the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, including as program head of the Playwrights' Colony and coordinator of the Screenwriters' Workshop.[citation needed]
Gebhard has often served as a festival adjudicator for Theatre BC's regional zone festivals.[4] Gebhard adjudicated the 2014 North Island Zone Drama Festival.[5] In 2015, she was the Main Stage Adjudicator for Kamloops.[6] Gebhard adjudicated the Fraser Valley Zone Festival in 2017.[1] In 2018, she adjudicated the Kitimat Drama Festival.[7] She served as the Main Stage Adjudicator in Vernon in 2022.[4]
A theatre professor at the University of Victoria,[8][9] Gebhard has directed productions for the university's Phoenix Theatre. In 2016, she directed Les Liaisons Dangereuses.[10] She directed Morris Panych's 7 Stories in 2019.[11] In 2021, Gebhard directed George F. Walker's Problem Child[12] and Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone.[13]
Gebhard has also directed several productions for Victoria's Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre including The Importance of Being Earnest (2016),[14] Barefoot in the Park (2019),[15] and Salt Water Moon (2021)[16]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Police Academy 3: Back in Training | Woman at Cafe | |
| 1988 | Blue City Slammers | Barb | |
| 1990 | Love & Murder | Wilma Evans | |
| 1994 | Ernest Goes to School | Miss Cosgrove | |
| 2009 | Case 39 | Coordinator |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | A Piano for Mrs. Cimino | Gloria Cimino | Television film |
| 1983 | The Shaft of Love | Nurse with Thermometer | |
| 1985 | Check It Out! | Lady Shopper | Episode: "Seven Days Make One Week" |
| 1986 | The Ray Bradbury Theater | Neighbour | Episode: "The Screaming Woman" |
| 1987 | Walking on Air | Jason's Mom | Television film |
| 1988 | Friday the 13th: The Series | Bradley / Marlene | 2 episodes |
| 1990 | T. and T. | Marlene Nesmith | Episode: "A Lesson in Values" |
| 1990 | Personals | Melody | Television film |
| 1992 | Shame | Betty | |
| 1993 | The Substitute | Female Teacher | |
| 2001 | Wolf Lake | Nurse | Episode: "Excitable Boy" |
| 2002 | The Dead Zone | Henrietta Dodd | 2 episodes |
| 2002, 2004 | The Chris Isaak Show | Debbie / Betty | |
| 2007 | The L Word | Connie | Episode: "Little Boy Blue" |