TAPA & PAIS Committees 2011-12

TAPA Committees

Executive Committee

• Meredith Potter, General Manager, Volcano and Peggy Baker Dance Projects, TAPA Board President
• Roy Reeves, Director Finance and Personnel, Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, TAPA Board Treasurer
• Andrea Vagianos, General Manager – Toronto Dance Theatre, TAPA Board Secretary
• Jacoba Knaapen, Executive Director, TAPA

Advocacy Committee

• Chris Lorway, Committee Chair, Director of Festival & Performing Arts, Lord Cultural Resources
• Meaghan Davis, Metcalf Intern via Volcano Theatre Company
• Julia Drake, Director of Communications, National Ballet of Canada, TAPA Board
• Sue Edworthy, Freelance, past TAPA Board member
• Kendra Fry, General Manager, Theatre Passe Muraille
• Jenny Ginder, Consultant, past TAPA Board member
• Shannon Litzenberger, Independent
• Micheline McKay, Consultant
• Jacoba Knaapen, Executive Director, TAPA

Amalgamation Working Group

• Meredith Potter, General Manager, Volcano and Peggy Baker Dance Projects, TAPA Board President
• Jim Roe, General Manager, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, President PAIS Board
• Roy Reeves, Director Finance and Personnel, Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, TAPA Board Treasurer
• Jim Harrison, Consultant, PAIS Board Treasurer
• Michael Rubinoff, Associate Dean – Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
• Janis Hobson, Business Manager, TAPA
• Jacoba Knaapen, Executive Director, TAPA
• Additional resource: Sam Marinucci TAPA and PAIS auditor

Commercial Theatre Development Fund (CTDF) Committee

• Michael Rubinoff, Committee Chair, Associate Dean – Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
• Brett Randall, General Manager, Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre Centre
• Carrie Sager, President, FLIP Publicity
• Brian Sewell, Producer, Mirvish Productions
• Janis Hobson, Business Manager, TAPA

Dora Eligibility Committee:

• Sandra Lefrançois, Committee Chair, Dora Manager
• Julia Drake, Director of Communications, National Ballet of Canada, TAPA Board, Dance representative
• Claudine Domingue, Director of Public Relations, Canadian Opera Copmany, Opera representative
• Lynda Hill, Artistic Director, Theatre Direct, Theatre for Young Audiences representative
• Mitchell Marcus, Producer, Acting Up Stage Theatre Company, Independent Theatre representative
• Sara Meurling, General Manager, Factory Theatre

Dora Nominating Committee

• Jennifer Brewin, Committee Chair, Artistic and Managing Director, Theatre Columbus
• Jon Karastamatis, Director of Communications, Mirvish Productions
• Donna Michelle St.Bernard, General Manager, Native Earth Performing Arts
• Two additional Committee Members to be cast

Dora Review Committee

• Allen MacInnis, Committee Chair, Artistic Director, Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, TAPA Board
• Jim Aldridge, President, TICKETKING, Mirvish Productions
• Nova Bhattacharya, Independent Dancer
• Claudine Domingue, Director of Public Relations, Canadian Opera Company, TAPA Board
• Meredith Potter, General Manager, Volcano and Peggy Baker Dance Projects, TAPA Board President
• Avery Saltzman, Artistic Director, Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company
• Nigel Shawn Williams, Independent Actor
• Sandra Lefrançois, Dora Manager
• Jacoba Knaapen, Executive Director, TAPA

Finance Committee

• Roy Reeves Committee Chair, Director Finance and Personnel, Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, TAPA Board Treasurer
• Ghislain Caron – General Manager, Le Theatre français de Toronto
• Janis Hobson, Business Manager, TAPA
• Jacoba Knaapen, Executive Director, TAPA

Fundraising Committee

• Jim Roe, General Manager, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, President PAIS
• Alexis Da Silva–Powell, Corporate Partnerships and Membership Manager, TAPA

Indie Caucus

• Richard Lee, Committee Co-Chair, Actor/Sound Designer/Fight Director/Producer, TAPA Board
• Jacoba Knaapen, Committee Co-Chair, Executive Director, TAPA
• Gideon Arthurs, Executive Director, Toronto Fringe, TAPA Board
• Franco Boni, Past Committee Co-Chair, Artistic Director, Theatre Centre
• Mark Brownell, Artistic Director, Pea Green Theatre
• Derrick Chua, Producer, Studio 180
• Christopher Hanratty, Co-Artistic Director, UnSpun Theatre
• Autumn Smith, Co-Artistic Director, MacKenzieRo: The Irish Repertory Theatre Company of Canada
• Cathy Murphy, Co-Artistic Director, MacKenzieRo: The Irish Repertory Theatre Company of Canada
• Rebecca Northan, Artistic Director/Independent artist
• Adam Seelig, Artistic Director, One Little Goat
• Vinetta Strombergs, Director
• Julie Tepperman, Co-Artistic Director, Convergence Theatre
• Aaron Willis, Co-Artistic Director, Convergence Theatre
• Michael Wheeler, Co-Artistic Director, Praxis Theatre

Media Relations Committee

• Gideon Arthurs, Committee Chair, Executive Director, Toronto Fringe, TAPA Board
• Anita Agrawal, Independent
• Andrea Vagianos, Managing Director, Toronto Dance Theatre, TAPA Board
• Brendan Healey, Artistic Director, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre
• Philip Akin, Artistic Director, Obsidian Theatre
• Helen Yung, Stand Firm
• Jacoba Knaapen, Executive Director, TAPA

Nominating Committee

• Meredith Potter, Committee Chair, General Manager, Volcano and Peggy Baker Dance Projects, TAPA Board President
• Andrea Vagianos, General Manager – Toronto Dance Theatre, TAPA Board Secretary
• Jacoba Knaapen, Executive Director, TAPA

TRIP Committee

• Chris Lorway, Committee Chair, Lord Cultural Services, TAPA Board
• Jim Aldridge, President, TICKETKING, Mirvish Productions
• Steve Beatty, Vice President, MHC Insurance
• Alexis Da Silva–Powell, Corporate Partnerships and Membership Manager, TAPA

PAIS Committees

Barbara Hamilton Memorial Committee

• Jim Roe, General Manager, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, President PAIS Board
• Martha Burns, Past Winner
• Eric Peterson, Past Winner
• Jacoba Knaapen, Executive Director, TAPA

George Luscombe Award Committee

• Maja Ardal, Committee Chair, Artistic Director, Contrary Company
• Steven Bush, Co-founder of Award
• Ravi Jain, Actor/Director
• Anusuree Roy, Actor

Leonard McHardy & John Harvey Committee

• Sandy Tulloch, Committee Chair, Consultant
• Derrick Chua, Producer, Studio 180
• John Harvey, Co-owner/Founder, Theatre Books
• Jacoba Knaapen, Executive Director, TAPA
• One additional committee member to be cast

Pauline McGibbon Award Committee

• Changes annually, administered by the Ontario Arts Council

Silver Ticket Committee

• Ken Gass, Committee Chair, Artistic Director, Factory Theatre
• All Previous Winners