Pantages Theatre Arts Society
PTAS will operate the theatre in the public interest, on lease from its owner for $1 a year. PTAS was incorporated under the British Columbia Society Act, on 5 June 2006. We operate in partnership with the Community Arts Council of Vancouver.
PTAS Board of Directors
Fairchild, Peter / President
Businessman; Chairman, Carnegie Cultural Arts Initiative; member of the board, Carnegie Community Centre Association
Clague, Barbara / Secretary
Executive Secretary, BC Council on Admissions and Transfer (retired); arts participant/supporter; partner in Clague Consultants
Wong, Grace / Treasurer
Senior Branch Manager, Chinatown, Vancouver City Savings; Senior Branch Manager, Asian Banking Services
Eberle, Robert
Associate Professor, Department of Drama, UBC; for 23 years Director of Production, Vancouver Children’s International Festival; project adjudicator and consultant, City of Vancouver; member, British Columbia Cultural Sector Development Council
Low, Duncan
Former Executive Director, Vancouver East Cultural Society
Pantages, Tony
Film maker, producer, actor
[NB: because everyone always asks – Alexander Pantages was his great great uncle]
Sleath, Eleanor BA, MA, CA, CPA
Director, Reporting and Planning, Colliers International; former governor, Notary Foundation of BC; former governor, Ballet BC; interim commissioner, BC Utilities Commission; 1993 employee campaign chair, United Way, BDO Dunwoody
FOUNDING COUNCIL OF ADVISORS
Dawn Brennan
Former General Manager, The Playhouse; General Manager, SHAPE BC
Nora Kelly
Past President, Strathcona Residents Association; President, City Opera Vancouver
David YH Lui, C.M.
Impresario
Donna Spencer
Artistic Producer, Firehall Arts Centre
Susan Stevenson
Executive Director, Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance
Ethel Whitty
Executive Director, Carnegie Community Centre
STAFF
Dr Charles Barber, Executive Director, Interim
Kevin Dale McKeown, Director of Marketing & Communications
Adam Abrams, Design and Website Management
Douglas Berg, Director of Internet Technologies
SPECIAL THANKS TO THOSE WITH US AT THE VERY BEGINNING:
Patricia Canning, community worker, Strathcona district
Mike Clague, community worker, Downtown Eastside
Tom Durrie, former executive director, Pacific Baroque Orchestra
Nathan Edelson, former senior city planner, City of Vancouver
Janet Leduc, executive director, Heritage Vancouver
Anthony Norfolk
Robert Williams, senior research fellow, VanCity