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Photo: Yvon Ouellet
David Diamond, BFA D.Litt. (Hon.)
Artistic and Managing Director/Joker
E-mail: david@headlinestheatre.com
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, David is a 1975 BFA graduate of the University of Alberta. He was a founding member of Vancouver's Headlines Theatre (1981) and has been Artistic Director since 1984.
David has directed approximately 450 community-specific projects on issues such as racism, civic engagement, violence, addiction, street youth, intergenerational conflict and homelessness. He has worked throughout Canada, the USA and Europe, as well as in Namibia, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil and Singapore, and has pioneered the development of live, interactive Forum television and web casting.
He is the originator of Theatre for Living, a merging of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, and a life-long interest in systems theory. Theatre for Living recognizes communities are complexly integrated living organisms and invites them to engage in constructive social change, moving from various forms of violence to respectful engagement.
David is the recipient of numerous awards, including the City of Vancouver's Cultural Harmony Award, the Jessie Richardson Award for Innovation in Theatre, an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Fraser Valley and the Otto René Castillo Award for Political Theatre. He is the author of Theatre for Living: the art and science of community-based dialogue (winner of the American Alliance of Theatre and Education 2008 Distinguished Book Award).
Liza Lindgren
Outreach Coordinator
E-mail: outreach@headlinestheatre.com
Liza is a documentary filmmaker using art as a tool for dialogue within grassroots groups, mainly in Sweden and Canada. Her films have been screened and used as a base for discussion in several different countries, touching on subjects such as gender, feminism, anti-racism, accessibility and Do-It-Yourself organizing.
With a background in theatre (including Theatre of the Oppressed), film and gender studies, she has organized and facilitated several workshops on "Master Suppression Techniques and its Counter Strategies". These workshops try to open up a discussion about the subtle oppression techniques that are displayed in interactions between people.
Liza is excited to be joining Headlines as they are approaching their 30th year anniversary. She is particularly interested in a systems-based perspective and theatre for social change, and in moving towards an empowering community based dialogue.
Erin Chen-ying Offer
Office / Production Manager
E-mail: admin@headlinestheatre.com
Erin was brought into this world by two very entertaining, loving leftists. Their influence, coupled with her failure to become a child star, is responsible for her inclination towards the liminal, the controversial, and the hopeful.
Erin is a filmmaker motivated by a desire to tell stories that are often unheard. She has worked as a peer counsellor at a gender advocacy centre, a sexual assault centre, and a transition house. After earning a degree in political science, Erin worked with community-based organisations in South Africa. She co-founded the international women's hip hop festival, Imbokodo, in Johannesburg. Her documentary, Counting Headz, has screened on six continents, been nominated for several awards, and opened the inaugural Black Lily Film Festival (Philadelphia). Her work has been recognised by BC Film, The Canada Council for the Arts, and has been acquired by several universities around the world.
Erin recently worked with the DOXA Documentary Film Festival as the Outreach Coordinator and curated the Sistahood Celebration's film festival. She is very excited and honoured to join this well-organised, human machine that helps empower individuals to change their lives and communities. Let the stories out!
Joan B. Flood
Financial Administrator
E-mail: finance@headlinestheatre.com
Joan is a writer who enjoys working in the arts. She has worked as an administrator with organizations that work for social change through legislation, by challenging issues of poverty law, environmental change, and human rights, as well as for a dance company. She was producer of the 2009 Vancouver International Storytelling Festival. Her writing has been published in anthologies in Canada, the United States and Australia.
Mana Mansour
Publicist (start August 23, 2010)
E-mail:TBA
Angela Sterritt
Outreach Assistant
E-mail: angela.sterritt@gmail.com
Angela Sterritt is a broadcast journalist and writer based in Vancouver, BC.
Angela is a Gitxsan and Irish woman who writes for magazines and newspapers across Canada and has worked as a producer and writer with CBC Vancouver, Manitoba, Prince George and Toronto.
As a spokesperson and representative, Angela has spoken about the atrocities against Aboriginal women at the United Nations in Geneva, at the Indigenous Peoples' Congress in Mexico, and all across Turtle Island. She is also a visual artist and uses her contemporary and traditional hybrid style to generate political, spiritual, and social messages that highlight and empower Native people. Angela has a BA in Political Science from the University of British Columbia.
Harry Hertscheg
Operations Manager
To contact Harry: info@headlinestheatre.com
Harry Hertscheg has worked in the theatre community since 1990 when he became the general manager of the Vancouver Fringe Festival. Harry's other theatre gigs include managing the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Theatre Modular Organizational Management (aka Theatre MOM), See Seven joint marketing project, and Ruby Slippers Theatre. In recognition of outstanding behind-the-scenes achievement, he was awarded the Mary Phillips Prize at the Jessie Theatre Awards in 2003. Harry sees pictures in numbers, and gets a kick out of making figures dance on the financial pages of Headlines Theatre since 1999.
Hertscheg also leads a life in wine. For the past six years, Harry has been the festival director of the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival, Canada's premier wine event and the major fundraiser for the Playhouse Theatre Company. He also writes wine reviews for Northwest Palate and Tidings magazines, and is a Certified Specialist of Wine through the Society of Wine Educators. His other educational qualifications include a UBC Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Geography, an SFU Cultural Administrators Certificate, and a BCIT Management Systems Certificate.
Since there is no rest for the wicked, Hertscheg also contributes to the community by serving as board chairs of UBC's CiTR Radio (where he was station manager in the late 1980s) and the Bridge Society, co-producers of the Vancouver Arts Awards. To maintain his sanity, Harry is the skip of a curling team, so he can yell..."SWEEP!"
Dafne Blanco
Webmaster
E-mail: dafne@dafneblancovisualart.com
Dafne was Headlines' Outreach Coordinator from 2004 to 2010. She has been involved with several grassroots organizations and art groups since she arrived in Vancouver from Mexico in 1996, working on the areas of Human Rights, First Nations struggles, Racism, Globalization and other social issues. She is currently working as an advocate for agriculture migrant rights, while freelancing as a web designer.
Dafne has (almost!) completed a degree in Graphic Design in the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and she is planning to pursue a Masters Degree in Visual Arts in the near future. Painting has been a great passion of hers and she is hoping to fully focus on her artistic creation if she is able to garner the blessings of the Visual Arts deities.
Headlines Board of Directors
- Tad Young, President
- Kirk Tougas, Vice- President
- Nicole McRae, Sec/Tres.
- William Roxborough, Past President
- Darlene Marzari, member
- Kamal Sharma, member
- Kevin Millsip, member
- Lorena Jara, member
To contact any Board Member:
E-mail: info@headlinestheatre.com
OR
write to:
Headlines Theatre
323-350 East 2nd Avenue
Vancouver, BC
Canada
V5T 4R8