Gavin Hawk
Professor of Theatre
Diploma from The Juilliard School Drama Division
M.F.A. in Acting/Directing from California State University, Long Beach.
Professor Hawk has been teaching acting courses at Eckerd College since 2006, and has worked as an actor and director across the country.
Professional directing credits include Green Day's American Idiot (American Stage), Cloud 9 (Jobsite Theater), One Slight Hitch (American Stage), The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Jobsite Theater), Miracle on South Division Street (A Simple Theatre), Good Egg (A Simple Theatre), Closetland (Jobsite Theater), Congratulations, Joe (A Simple Theatre), and Death and the Maiden (A Simple Theatre). In 2013 he was nominated for a Theatre Tampa Bay award for Best Director of a Play for his production of Good Egg, and in 2023 he won a Broadway World Tampa award for Best Director of a Musical for his production of Green Day's American Idiot.
Professional acting credits include The Album, or Here There Are Blueberries (Tectonic Theater Project/Miami New Drama), A Raisin in the Sun (American Stage), The Pitmen Painters (American Stage), Art (American Stage), The Foreigner (American Stage) Barefoot in the Park (American Stage), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (freeFall Theatre), Hate Mail (The Studio@620), Love, Bukowski (California Repertory Company), Cider House Rules: Parts I & II (California Repertory Company), Gross Indecency (Huntington Theatre), Over the Tavern II: King O’ The Moon (Studio Arena/Pittsburgh Public), and Refuge (Soho Repertory). In 2009, Circumference of a Squirrel, a one man show he starred in, won the distinction of being named one of the Top Ten Plays of the Year by Creative Loafing Tampa. He is a proud member of the Actors Equity Association.