Fran Gebhard

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| education = University of British Columbia (MFA){{Cite web |date=June 1, 2017|title=Minty: Zoned in on community theatre, which isn’t ‘amateur’ at all - Surrey Now-Leader |url=https://www.surreynowleader.com/entertainment/minty-zoned-in-on-community-theatre-which-isnt-amateur-at-all/ |access-date=September 15, 2022 |website=www.surreynowleader.com |language=en-US}}

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Fran Gebhard is a Canadian actress and theatre director.Adrian Chamberlain, "Midsummer Night's Dream goes punk; New York scene in late '70s inspires director Fran Gebhard". Victoria Times-Colonist, November 6, 2014. 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.Liam Lacey, "Quebec film picks up 14 nominations: Zoo paces race for Genies". The Globe and Mail, February 17, 1988. She is currently a professor at the University of Victoria.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}

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.

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|date=September 2022}}

Gebhard has often served as a festival adjudicator for Theatre BC's regional zone festivals. Gebhard adjudicated the 2014 North Island Zone Drama Festival.{{Cite web |last=Gough |first=Brenda |date=May 13, 2014|title=Mix of genres offers a theatrical feast |url=https://www.pqbnews.com/entertainment/mix-of-genres-offers-a-theatrical-feast/ |access-date=September 15, 2022|website=Parksville Qualicum Beach News |language=en-US}} In 2015, she was the Main Stage Adjudicator for Kamloops.{{Cite web |last=Lamb-Yorski |first=Monica |date=July 16, 2015 |title=Williams Lake Studio Theatre receives accolades at Mainstage 2015 |url=https://www.wltribune.com/entertainment/williams-lake-studio-theatre-receives-accolades-at-mainstage-2015/ |access-date=September 15, 2022 |website=Williams Lake Tribune |language=en-US}} Gebhard adjudicated the Fraser Valley Zone Festival in 2017. In 2018, she adjudicated the Kitimat Drama Festival.{{Cite web |last=Gervais |first=Brittany |date=June 7, 2018|title=Terrace Little Theatre wins big at Kitimat Drama Festival |url=https://www.terracestandard.com/community/terrace-little-theatre-wins-big-at-kitimat-drama-festival/ |access-date=September 15, 2022 |website=Terrace Standard |language=en-US}} She served as the Main Stage Adjudicator in Vernon in 2022.{{Cite web |last=Handschuh |first=Darren |date=July 4, 2022|title=Main Stage 2022 will take place July 11-16 in Vernon |url=https://www.castanet.net/news/Vernon/373537/Main-Stage-2022-will-take-place-July-11-16-in-Vernon |access-date=September 15, 2022 |website=Castanet |language=en}}

A theatre professor at the University of Victoria,Adrian Chamberlain, "Liaisons a bona fide coup for UVic team". Victoria Times-Colonist, November 13, 2016.{{Cite web |last=Prendergast |first=Monica |title=2019's theatre report card is in |url=https://www.focusonvictoria.ca/focus-magazine-sept-oct-2019/2019s-theatre-report-card-is-in-r4/ |access-date=September 15, 2022 |website=Focus on Victoria |language=en-CA}} Gebhard has directed productions for the university's Phoenix Theatre. In 2016, she directed Les Liaisons Dangereuses.{{Cite web |last=Chamberlain |first=Adrian |date=November 12, 2016 |title=Review: Les Liaisons Dangereuses a bona fide coup for UVic team |url=https://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/review-les-liaisons-dangereuses-a-bona-fide-coup-for-uvic-team-4643147 |access-date=September 15, 2022 |website=Victoria Times Colonist |language=en}} She directed Morris Panych's 7 Stories in 2019.{{Cite web |date=March 3, 2019 |title=UVic production of 7 Stories features original 23 foot tall set |url=https://www.mondaymag.com/entertainment/uvic-production-of-7-stories-features-original-23-foot-tall-set/ |access-date=September 15, 2022 |website=Monday Magazine |language=en-US}} In 2021, Gebhard directed George F. Walker's Problem Child{{Cite web |last=Devlin |first=Mike |date=March 18, 2021 |title=First show by the Phoenix Theatre in over a year goes the livestream route |url=https://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/first-show-by-the-phoenix-theatre-in-over-a-year-goes-the-livestream-route-4688121 |access-date=September 15, 2022 |website=Victoria Times Colonist |language=en}} and Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone.{{Cite web |last=Devlin |first=Mike |date=November 12, 2021 |title=Phoenix Theatre returns for its first mainstage production since March 2020 |url=https://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/phoenix-theatre-returns-for-its-first-mainstage-production-since-march-2020-4746387 |access-date=September 15, 2022 |website=Victoria Times Colonist |language=en}}

Gebhard has also directed several productions for Victoria's Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre including The Importance of Being Earnest (2016),{{Cite web |last=Chamberlain |first=Adrian |date=July 7, 2016 |url=https://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/veteran-actors-come-full-circle-in-importance-of-being-earnest-4638404 |title=Veteran actors come full circle in Importance of Being Earnest |access-date=September 15, 2022 |website=Victoria Times Colonist |language=en}} Barefoot in the Park (2019),{{Cite web |last=Horne |first=Chris |date=July 10, 2019 |title=Local theatre takes on 1963 comedic classic Barefoot in the Park |url=https://www.martlet.ca/local-theatre-takes-on-1963-comedic-classic-barefoot-in-the-park/ |access-date=September 15, 2022 |website=Martlet.ca |language=en-US}} and Salt Water Moon (2021){{Cite web |last=Devlin |first=Mike |date=July 2, 2021 |title=Blue Bridge welcomes in-person audiences back to the theatre |url=https://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/blue-bridge-welcomes-in-person-audiences-back-to-the-theatre-4690430 |access-date=September 15, 2022 |website=Victoria Times Colonist |language=en}}