Gene Gibbons, PhD

Education

• PhD Theory and Policy Studies, University of Toronto, in progress
• MFA Scenography, Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana), 1985
• Scenography Internship, Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia) 1979
• MA Drama, West Virginia University (Morgantown, W.Va.), 1978
• BFA Production Design, Ohio University (Athens, Ohio), 1976
• MBA coursework in Non Profit Administration, Concordia University (Montreal), 1994-96

Professional theatre experience

Gene became legally permitted to design in Canada in 1986. After this point, and before he became a full-time administrator, Gene worked on approximately four professional productions per year in Toronto, Montrealand Atlantic Canada.

Administrative appointments

• Chair, Department of Theatre, 2002-05
• Associate Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, Appraisals, Planning & Resource Management, 1996-98.
• Associate Dean, Faculty Fine Arts, Physical Resources & Development, 1994-96.

Professional Consultancy

Senior Planning Consultant, to Concordia's Provost, June 1995-96.

Toronto Major Gifts Volunteer Coordinator, Concordia Capital Campaign, Spring 1998.

University employment

Concordia University, Tenured Faculty and Administration, 1984 to present

Dalhousie University, California State University North Ridge,Hope College, Arizona State University, Sabbatical ReplacementPositions 1979-83

Ohio University, 1979-81 and Purdue University, 1984 Summer Faculty Positions.

Professional affiliations

ADC Associated Designers of Canada: (equivalent to the United Scenic Artists)

Member since 1985. Served as member of the Board of Directors 1986-89.

Also served as a founding board member and secretary of Communication ADC, the non profit wing of the ADC.

CIRPA (the Canadian Institutional Research and Planning Association)
CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education)
USITT (United States Institute for Theatre Technology)

Member since 1977. Between 1979 and 1982, served as Commissioner for Liaison with the Artists. Gene has also served as Secretary of the Publications Committee.

Canadian Committee for Public Education (founding member)

Community service

Institutional Planning Group for the Centraid Campaign (United Way), Montreal, 1995-98

Canvasser for the Canadian Heart and Stroke Fund, Toronto, 1996-97

Parent volunteer, Scouts Canada

Scouter, BSA

Research

Funded by a three-year FRQSC research-creation grant, Cross is currently researching low-toxic photochemical processes with his motion picture processing lab: The LabCaf.  He built a 4x5 pinhole camera and is undertaking tests to shoot a landscape and portrait project.

Currently in post production The Ballad of Ava is a 15 minute experiment in fiction filmmaking. The film is one story, broken into three chapters each written and directed by a different filmmaker.

He recently completed a new feature length script, Falling to Earth. He plans to shoot the film in 35mm anamorphic, black and white and with the intention to process the negative in the LabCaf.