Board of Directors
Our Board is a diverse group committed to helping us realize our mission to reimagine theatre.
Board Members:
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Athomas Goldberg | Director
Athomas Goldberg is the President of Lifelike & Believable Animation Design, where he provides consulting on the design and implementation of digital actors for video games and other interactive content. His work has appeared in games from Electronic Arts, Relic Entertainment and other major game developers, as well as numerous interactive dance and theatre performances including, most recently, “The Return”, which ran through the month of July 2015 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC and “worlds”, which brought together live performers on three stages in two cities into a single shared virtual world and premiered in August 2015 at Emily Carr University. He began his career as a lighting and set designer in NYC, before joining NYU’s Media Research Lab, where he led the development of the Improv Animation System, one of the earliest examples of artificial intelligence used to drive the behavior of 3D digital actors.He frequently lectures on animation and narrative design for games and interactive content.
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Kathleen Duborg | President
Kathleen is a director, actor, producer and educator. Recent directing projects include The Beaux’ Stratagem by George Farquhar, adapted by Ken Ludwig, Bard of the Bronx by John Patrick Shanley, The Seagull by Chekhov, Komagata Maru by Sharon Pollock, Mrs. Singh and Me by Munish Sharma (Pick of the Fringe) and the plays Iceland (Jessie nomination best director), Greenland, Faroe Islands and Ostrich (premiere), all written by Nicolas Billon.
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Mark Vulliamy | Director
After a 30+ year career with the Vancouver Park Board, latterly as Manager of Research and Planning, Mark is in a lengthy process of adjusting to retirement. His earlier adult life was spent creating and acting in (mostly) guerilla theatre, before he became enmeshed in civic bureaucracy. Free of that entanglement, he now has more time for writing, choral singing and reconnecting with the contemporary theatre scene. Mark initially became involved with PTC through coordinating the Vancouver component of Climate Change Action Theatre in 2015. This experience gave him an appreciation of PTC as a linchpin for local independent theatre, and motivates him, as a new board member, to help enhance its organizational profile.
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Masa Kateb | Director
Masa is a community organizer, activist, Hakawati (storyteller), writer and public speaker. She worked in different fields between Damascus and Dubai – from journalism, marketing, translation & interpretation, to being a professional basketball player and a basketball coach – all while pursuing a BA in Economics, majoring in Business Administration at the University of Damascus.
Since her arrival in Canada in Spring of 2018, she’s been actively advocating for refugee rights, education for youth and women’s rights, and constantly shedding light on the Syrian culture that seems to be forgotten from the conversation.
Masa is the Manager of Projects with Jumpstart Refugee Talent, a refugee lead organization that focuses on supporting refugee newcomers in achieving economical stability in Canada. She’s also an active member of the Syrian National Committee of United World Colleges since 2010, currently serving as Promotions Manager.
She strongly believes that education and the performing arts are the strongest tools that can inspire change in the world.
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Natasha McEwen | Director
With a strong academic and practical background in the performing arts, Natasha is an urban communications professional who has worked across the country in high-level marketing positions at not-for-profit cultural organizations as well as in the corporate and agency sectors. Natasha currently works as an independent digital marketing and communications consultant. She enjoys her work with clients of all shapes and sizes: from large international corporations, to small, local business to not-for-profit arts organizations.
Though she’s found her calling in media management, music and theatre will forever hold a special place in Natasha’s heart. To feed her love of the arts and her penchant for volunteerism, Natasha sits on the Board of Directors of both the Playwrights Theatre Centre and the Sunset Theatre Society.
In addition to an active professional life, Natasha loves making jam (Maple Peach Vanilla is her favourite both to make and consume), knitting and spending time on Kits Beach with her growing family.
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Natasha Nadir | Director
Natasha is a professional director and dramaturg with an MFA in Directing from UBC. Most recently she created and directed View From A Window with Seniors Create. While she was Artistic Associate at Gateway Theatre she directed The Grandkid, Mary’s Wedding, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Burning In and produced and facilitated SceneFirst: Staged readings of New Work. As Artistic Director of All Nations Theatre she produced and directed a number of new Canadian plays for youth. Natasha is currently pursuing playwriting and is a member of the Wet Ink Collective.
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Patrick Ho | Director
Patrick spends his days acting like an adult. With formal training from Emily Carr College of Art and Design as a graphic designer, he now finds himself mainly engaging with words and storytelling. That fusion of the visual and literary continues to inspire him to create brands for consumer products and services with a bunch of smart people at Dossier, a design and innovation company. Outside of his professional endeavours, he delights in the city’s ever-expanding café culture, naively trying to transmute caffeine into iambic pentameter, but mostly wondering why he seems to be so shakey all the time.
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Stacy Sherlock | Director
Stacy Sherlock received her BFA in technical theatre design and production management from UBC. After a successful theatrical career dedicated towards new Canadian playwright development + spectrum of needs creation, she transitioned concentrations to ensuring established safe space practices. Currently, Sherlock focuses on Differently-Abled + Spectrum + Specialty Needs Real Estate. Representing both individuals as well as societies, her experiences with Invisible Disability ground her passion for an out-of-the-box vision, to guide folks to the properties which best suit their specificity. From professional theatrical performances, developmental staged readings, poetry slams, storytelling sessions, and most recently, specialized Real Estate presentations, Sherlock has a vast array of dexterity publicly discussing the stigmatization surrounding a variety of medical invisible disabilities and societal nuances that few publicly disclose. Her archive of experiences allows her to easily transition between stylized performances to academic conversations. stacysherlock.com