~ Guest Blog Post by BFA Acting student Pippa Johnstone: I’m in my third year at UBC, and in the intermediate year of the BFA Acting program – with one year left to go. Right now, we are gearing up to open Macbeth, a date that is fast approaching on March 22nd! I am playing [...]

~ A guest blog post from Theatre at UBC student Jayda Novak: The chilling ring of swords lights up Rehearsal Room 128. Young men in jeans and girls in hoodies perfectly execute a slow-motion war scene after only one full day of fight choreography. And as we all watch from the side of the room, [...]

~ A guest post by BFA Acting Alumnus Andy Cohen Every so often, a show comes along that you are proud to be a part of, which you feel makes you a better person, by getting to speak those words and wear that vest and glue your eyebrows; a show where you go to bed [...]

~ A Guest Post by Theatre Studies M.A. student Katrina Dunn: Conferences are ‘showtime’ for academics. Here discourse, original thought, scholarly discipline and mastery of language are suddenly translated into a performance event with its own set of aesthetic rules, modes of hierarchical positioning, and systems of feedback and judgement. It’s a site of community [...]

A few questions with BFA Design student Wladimiro Woyno, Set and Lighting Designer for our upcoming production of Problem Child and The End of Civilization. Q: How did you get interested in Theatre Lighting & Design? A: I started working in Theatre when I was in high school, my first ever production was Dracula, which was [...]

Guest Blog Post by Alex Carr ~ “The Trial of Judith K” is  a  great  show. Working on the scenic design for this show was quite a challenging and laborious process and seeing the final product together with the sound and lighting made it worth all of the effort I put into it. It is [...]

A guest blog post by Head of Properties Janet Bickford who’s retiring after 19 seasons with Theatre at UBC: “I got interested in theatre during high school, inspired by a charismatic teacher called Maurice Gibbons.  My other love was writing.  So at UBC in the sixties I did a BA in Theatre and Creative Writing. [...]