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Photo: Yvon Ouellet
David Diamond, BFA D.Litt. (Hon.)
Artistic and Managing Director/Joker
E-mail: david@headlinestheatre.com
David is a founding member of Headlines Theatre (1981) and has been Artistic Director since 1984.
David has directed many hundreds of community specific theatre projects on issues such as racism, gender roles, violence, addiction, self-esteem, First Nations' Residential Schools, species and habitat protection, water privatization, language reclamation and many, many others. He has directed workshops throughout BC, Canada and the USA, as well as in Namibia, New Zealand, Germany, Austria, Italy, Australia and Finland. He has also been involved in the writing and/or directing of all of Headlines' main stage plays, including NO` XYA` (Our Footprints), Out of the Silence, Mamu, Squeegee, Corporate U, THIR$TY, Don't Say a Word, Practicing Democracy, Here and Now, Meth, 2° of Fear and Desire, Shattering and after homelessness… David has pioneered the development of live, interactive Forum television and web casting.
David is a 1975 graduate of the University of Alberta with a BFA in acting. He worked as a professional actor in theatre, television and film throughout Western Canada until 1981 when he co-founded Headlines Theatre. He is the originator of Headlines' THEATRE FOR LIVING workshops, based on Brazilian Director Augusto Boal's ground-breaking Theatre of the Oppressed. David is the recipient of numerous theatre and human rights awards. In 1996 he was the first individual recipient of the City of Vancouver's Cultural Harmony Award. In 2001 he received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University College of the Fraser Valley.
He is the author of numerous published articles and Theatre for Living: the art and science of community-based dialogue (winner of the American Alliance of Theatre and Education 2008 Distinguished Book Award) published through Trafford in 2007.
Dafne Blanco
Outreach Coordinator
E-mail: outreach@headlinestheatre.com
Dafne has been involved with several grassroots organizations and art groups since she arrived from Mexico in 1996. Some of these groups include Latin American Connexions, an analysis community newspaper, and Building Bridges, a human rights observers training organization.
Using her visual arts background, Dafne has put together several multimedia presentations to promote popular education on the areas of First Nations struggles, Racism, Globalization and other social issues.
Adeline Huynh
Office / Production Manager
E-mail: admin@headlinestheatre.com
Adeline is a writer and filmmaker using art as a tool for community development. She has organized and facilitated writing and filmmaking workshops for several advocacy groups including “Antidote”, a multi-racial immigrant youth organization. In addition, she has been commissioned to produce films on anti-racism experiences. Her work has gained notice from the National Film Board of Canada, the Knowledge Network and CBC, as well as appearing in the Vancouver International Film Festival, Toronto International Reel Asian Film Festival, as well as throughout Canada and abroad.
A graduate of the University of Manitoba where she completed a degree in Political Science, she went on to study Creative Writing and Film at the University of Victoria. Her experience in community development includes work in the areas of literacy, anti-racism and anti-poverty at both the grassroots level and internationally.
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.
Gabriela De Lucca
Publicist
E-mail: publicity@headlinestheatre.com
Gabriela is excited to be joining Headlines as the Publicist for their 2009 mainstage production: after homelessness... which will look at issues of homelessness and mental health. Gabriela's passions for political involvement, community development and the arts have been united at Headlines.
She comes to Headlines with communications experience working in various areas within the arts, including the 2009 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, the 2008 Roman Danylo Summer Tour, the Pemberton Festival, the 2008 DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Cirque du Soleil's Corteo, and art openings, among others.
A graduate of Saint Francis Xavier University, she holds a double major in Political Science and Sociology and was an active part of the university's radio and newspaper communities. During her studies, Gabriela focused on Latin American development and traveled as a research assistant to Peru to study participatory development and livelihood strategies in the Central Peruvian Highlands.
Gabriela is an avid photographer and really likes the look of ships.
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!"
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