Kayla McIntyre
Student
Master of Arts in Theatre (MA)
Cinema and Media Studies
Master of Arts
Department of Theatre & Film
Theatre and Film at UBC offers a comprehensive range of degrees in the study of Theatre and Film and includes the option to study in an interdisciplinary environment with Creative Writing and other university disciplines. Our objective is to develop students’ imaginative, technical, and intellectual skills equally as they prepare to embark on a career in theatre and related arts.
Our objective is to develop the student’s intellectual, creative and technical skills as they prepare to embark on professional careers. Courses can provide students with core disciplines and knowledge of the diversity of aesthetic practices as well as practical experience in theatre and film.
Our aim is to teach students in a liberal arts context that will help to prepare them for a wide range of careers, including, costume and set design, theatre production, teaching, curating, filmmaking, writing and arts administration.
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Bourges, Antoine | Film Production |
| Brown, William | film-philosophy, digital media, posthumanism, critical race theory |
| Coulthard, Lisa | All other humanities, n.e.c.; film sound; film violence; film music; horror cinema; action cinema; stuntwork and performance |
| Drljaca, Igor | Creative writing; Documentary; Film Production; Screenwriting |
| Firkins, Jacqueline | costume design |
| Gagnon, Olivia Michiko | Performance studies; minoritarian performance and cultural production; Multimedia art-making; critical race and ethnic studies; feminist and queer theory; critical Indigenous studies; Archival Theory; performative writing |
| Johnston, Kirsty | Dramatic literature and theatre history with particular interest in disability arts and intersections between health, disability and performance |
| Lachance, Lindsay | Humanities and the arts; Canadian Theatre Studies; Theatre Theory and Dramaturgy |
| Liu, Siyuan | twentieth century Chinese theatre and Asian Canadian theatre |
| Marshall, Hallie | Performing arts; Ancient Greek Theatre; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Classics; Contemporary British Theatre; Cultural Industries; History of the Book; Literary or Artistic Work Dissemination or Reception Contexts; Performance and Theatrical Productions; Poetry; Reception Studies; Religion, Culture and Space; Theatre; Tony Harrison |
| Mathijs, Ernest | film, alternative cinema, independent cinema, European cinema, horror film, David Cronenberg, film audiences, film festivals, censorship, fantasy film, Lord of the Rings, Film studies |
| Morris, Leora | Directing; Acting; New play development |
| Pennefather, Patrick | theatre design; Theatre Production; digital media; Public VR projects; xR development; Scalable virtual and augmented reality prototypes; Rapid prototyping for mixed realities; Design of spatial audio in physical and virtual environments |
| Powers, Bradley | Production Technology |
| Rizzotti, Patrick | Performing arts; design; Design and Planning of Space; Theatrical Productions; Virtual Reality; Augmented reality; design for new works; devised work; narrative visual experience; production design; site specific experiences; theatre design |
| Santos, Alessandra | Cinema studies; Film, television and digital media; Latin American history; Latin American literatures; Spanish language; Artistic and Literary Analysis Models; Artistic and Literary Theories; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Arts and Technologies; Brazilian Literature and Culture; Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies; Latin American Literatures and Cultures; Modern and Contemporary Literatures and Cultures |
| Scholte, Tom | Theatre, film, and television |
| Seinen, Jonathan | Acting; Directing |
| Walsh, Shannon | Media arts; Critical identity, ethnic and race studies; Social and cultural anthropology; South Africa; Afropessimism & Critical Race Studies; Documentary; Film Production; Indigenous studies; Environmental justice; Affect Theory |
| Zaiontz, Keren | Performing arts; Performance studies; experimental performance practices; performance and the city; the cultural politics of festivals and mega-events; art-activism and social movements |
| Zuo, Mila | Cinema & Media studies; film studies; Contemporary Asian and transnational cinemas; Film philosophy; Acting and performance studies; Star studies; Digital and new media; Critical theories of gender, sexuality, and race and ethnicity |