Fran Gebhard

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Fran Gebhard
Education University of British Columbia (MFA) [1]
Occupation(s)Actress, director, and professor

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 ]

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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

YearTitleRoleNotes
1986 Police Academy 3: Back in Training Woman at Cafe
1988 Blue City Slammers Barb
1990Love & MurderWilma Evans
1994 Ernest Goes to School Miss Cosgrove
2009 Case 39 Coordinator

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1982 A Piano for Mrs. Cimino Gloria CiminoTelevision film
1983The Shaft of LoveNurse with Thermometer
1985 Check It Out! Lady ShopperEpisode: "Seven Days Make One Week"
1986 The Ray Bradbury Theater NeighbourEpisode: "The Screaming Woman"
1987Walking on AirJason's MomTelevision film
1988 Friday the 13th: The Series Bradley / Marlene2 episodes
1990 T. and T. Marlene NesmithEpisode: "A Lesson in Values"
1990PersonalsMelodyTelevision film
1992ShameBetty
1993 The Substitute Female Teacher
2001 Wolf Lake NurseEpisode: "Excitable Boy"
2002 The Dead Zone Henrietta Dodd2 episodes
2002, 2004 The Chris Isaak Show Debbie / Betty
2007 The L Word ConnieEpisode: "Little Boy Blue"

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