Cornel Gabara
Assistant Professor, Head of Acting
Theatre
Cornel Gabara began his career in 1988 at the National Theatre of Bucharest, where among others he performed in Andrei Serban’s Fragments of a Greek Trilogy as well as performing the lead role in the remount of Robert Wilson’s Hamletmachine. He toured to major festivals including Edinborough, Paris, Lisbon and Sao Paolo. He came to Canada in 1993, where an interest in teaching persuaded him to pursue higher education.
He received his BFA from Concordia University in Montreal and his MFA in Acting from Columbia University in New York. His New York credits include Eurystheus in Peter Sellar’s Children of Herakles, which toured throughout Europe, and Pantalone in Andrei Serban’s Benvenuto Cellini at the New York Metropolitan Opera. He also performed in Robert Woodruff’s Goddard: Distant and Right, in Nanterre (France), at La Mama ETC in Andrei Serban’s Richard III, Nikolaus Wolcz’s Turandot, and East River Commedia’s Striptease/Out at Sea.
In addition to teaching he is also the Artistic Director and a founding member of the Glacity Theatre Collective in Toledo, Ohio. With this professional company, he has directed Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Breathing Corpses.
Office
Center for Performing Arts
Room 2042
Phone
419.530.2680
Fax
419.530.8439
E-Mail
cornel.gabara@utoledo.edu