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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.

Fran Gebhard
Education	University of British Columbia (MFA)[1]
Occupation	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"

References

External links

• Fran Gebhard at IMDb

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