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Chris O'Neill
Ms. O’Neill is a professional actor and playwright who co-founded the organisation and was the driving push to build the Centre, acting as the fundraising and programming locus for the past ten years. She has taught writing and acting, served on both provincial and national boards of arts organisations as well as serving on community boards. She continues to work as a theatre artist, with four plays co-written with husband Ken Schwartz to her credit, along with many acting roles. She was most recently seen with Two Planks in Jerome: the Historical Spectacle, Our Town and was Athena in The Odyssey in 2007. She was awarded the Golden Jubilee Medal for contribution to her community and Canada in 2002.

Chris O'Neill
Co-CEO of CoastArts Association
Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Ross Creek Centre
Co-Founder of Two Planks and a Passion Theatre
chris@artscentre.ca

Ken Schwartz
Co-CEO of CoastArts Association
Co-Founder of the Ross Creek Centre
Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Two Planks and a Passion
artisticdirectors@twoplanks.ca

Ken Schwartz is a co-founding artistic director of Two Planks and a Passion Theatre since 1992. A two-time graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, Ken is an award-winning director, educator and dramaturge. He has directed over 30 productions for the company, including The Odyssey by Rick Chafe, Our Town by Thornton Wilder, Rockbound by Allen Cole and Jerome: the Historical Spectacle by Ami McKay. In 2009 he collected Merritt Awards for outstanding achievement in Nova Scotian theatre as both director and producer of Our Town. In 2008 he was awarded the Established Artist Recognition award by the Nova Scotia Arts and Culture Partnership Council and collected the Merritt Award as producer of The Odyssey. In 2003 he was awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal for his contributions to the art form.

Julie Glaser
Ms. Glaser comes to CoastArts Association with over 10 years of event production experience in multi-disciplinary settings. She has directed film festivals, community arts festivals, managed live performance theatres, and specializes in public relations and organizational development within cultural and community settings. She has produced numerous short films and documentaries, and is a published author of short fiction and literary non-fiction, and a graduate of Queens University in Kingston.

Julie Glaser
General Manager for Ross Creek Centre - gm@artscentre.ca
General Manager for Two Planks and a Passion Theatre
gm@twoplanks.ca

Roxy Peterson
Camp and Education Director - education@artscentre.ca
Mr. Peterson was born and raised in London, Great Britain, and comes to us with honours in design and semiology studies from the London Metropolitan University. He has been involved with Summer Camping, youth and community work for 15 years in London GB, Franklin PA, and Okeechobee FL. He has lived in Canada for 2 and a half years and has worked for Ross Creek for 2 years as the Education Director and Camp Director, managing March Break, SummerArts Camp, Youth Art Enrichment programmes, Positive Action Project, Anti-Bullying and the Ross Creek Youth Council among other things.

Melisa Szeto

Will be joining us as a coop student from Mount Saint Vincent University to be our Guest Services Coordinator for the Summer.

Box Office for Two Planks mail@twoplanks.ca
Visitor's Services for Ross Creek - mail@artscentre.ca

Mike McMahon
Mr. MacMahon is a carpenter, musician, and property manager. He was 18 years timber framing and was co-owner of a timber frame business, He has lived all over Canada, and came to Wolfville in 1972. He plays bodrahn in the Paddy’s Session Band. At Ross Creek he shares his years of experience prop and stage building with Two Planks and Passion Theatre, managing the 186 acres of field and forest, maintaining the building’s systems, and taking care of all the Centre’s building’s construction projects.

Property Manager and Set Man - property@artscentre.ca

Samantha Jessome

Sammie will be joining us as our Communications Coordinator for the summer, on a coop placement from Mount Saint Vincent University.

Two Planks is thrilled to have volunteers from Katimavik with us through 2009-2010.

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The Ross Creek Centre for the Arts is a multi disciplinary arts education and development centre based on 186 acres of farm and forest in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley. Our facilities and programs are designed to serve the artistic and cultural communities of Nova Scotia, of Canada, and of the world, with a focus on professional artist development, youth education and Aboriginal arts programming. For more information, click here

Cast in Our Town, 2008. Photo by Rene Pierre Allain