Robert Gardiner

Emeritus Professor, Theatre Production & Design
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About

ROBERT GARDINER, B.A. (California State, Sacramento), M.F.A. (Washington) is Emeritus Professor of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He was Head of the UBC Department of Theatre and Film from 2002 – 2007 and Acting Head from 2012 – 2015. During his 36 years at UBC he maintained an active artistic practice as a scenery, lighting, and projection designer, receiving Jessie Richardson Awards and a Dorothy Somerset Award in Vancouver, an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes award in Edmonton, and a Toronto Theatre Critics Award. His experiments with digital media during the 1990s and early 2000s received funding from the BC Innovations Fund, SSHRC, and other agencies. He has served on many civic and University panels, boards, committees, and juries, and helped develop the UBC BFA, MFA, and MDM curriculum in theatre and film. At UBC he taught set, lighting, and projection design, as well as other courses, and worked with many remarkable students whose achievements in the arts remain an inspiration.


Teaching


Robert Gardiner

Emeritus Professor, Theatre Production & Design
Research Area

About

ROBERT GARDINER, B.A. (California State, Sacramento), M.F.A. (Washington) is Emeritus Professor of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He was Head of the UBC Department of Theatre and Film from 2002 – 2007 and Acting Head from 2012 – 2015. During his 36 years at UBC he maintained an active artistic practice as a scenery, lighting, and projection designer, receiving Jessie Richardson Awards and a Dorothy Somerset Award in Vancouver, an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes award in Edmonton, and a Toronto Theatre Critics Award. His experiments with digital media during the 1990s and early 2000s received funding from the BC Innovations Fund, SSHRC, and other agencies. He has served on many civic and University panels, boards, committees, and juries, and helped develop the UBC BFA, MFA, and MDM curriculum in theatre and film. At UBC he taught set, lighting, and projection design, as well as other courses, and worked with many remarkable students whose achievements in the arts remain an inspiration.


Teaching


Robert Gardiner

Emeritus Professor, Theatre Production & Design
Research Area
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ROBERT GARDINER, B.A. (California State, Sacramento), M.F.A. (Washington) is Emeritus Professor of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He was Head of the UBC Department of Theatre and Film from 2002 – 2007 and Acting Head from 2012 – 2015. During his 36 years at UBC he maintained an active artistic practice as a scenery, lighting, and projection designer, receiving Jessie Richardson Awards and a Dorothy Somerset Award in Vancouver, an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes award in Edmonton, and a Toronto Theatre Critics Award. His experiments with digital media during the 1990s and early 2000s received funding from the BC Innovations Fund, SSHRC, and other agencies. He has served on many civic and University panels, boards, committees, and juries, and helped develop the UBC BFA, MFA, and MDM curriculum in theatre and film. At UBC he taught set, lighting, and projection design, as well as other courses, and worked with many remarkable students whose achievements in the arts remain an inspiration.

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