About Tom Scholte

Tom Scholte is a Professor of Directing and Acting in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia located on the unceded, ancestral, and traditional territory of the Musqueam people. As an actor/writer/producer/director his work has been scene in such venues as the Toronto, Berlin, and Sundance film festivals. He is also the Faculty Lead and Artistic Director of Conflict Theatre@UBC; a joint initiative of his home department and UBC Human Resources in partnership with the UBC Office of Equity and Inclusion using Forum Theatre to explore workplace conflict on campus. His research on the cybernetics of the Stanislavski System of Acting and theatre-based methods of modelling complex social systems has been published in such journals as Kybernetes, Constructivist Foundations, and Futures.