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Judy Harquail (she/her)
Director of Programs
Judy has over 35 years of experience working in the performing arts including organizational development, strategic planning, financial management, arts marketing, funding, and tour management, working in collaboration with an extensive range of arts organizations and arts professionals across Canada, the United States, and throughout the world.
In 2011 Judy produced the ISPA Congress in Toronto and produced the 2016 Toronto IAMA Conference. She is the 2007 recipient of the National Arts Centre award for distinguished contribution to touring in Canada and the 2011 Sandra Tulloch Award for Innovation in Arts and Culture in Ontario.
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Jane Marsland (she/her)
Project Lead
Jane Marsland has been an articulate advocate for the arts for many years and has served on a wide range of boards, advisory groups and committees. Jane was a co-founder of For Dance and Opera, co-founder and Director of Technical Assistance of The Creative Trust: Working Capital for the Arts, as well as co-founder and director of ARTS 4 CHANGE. She has been the recipient of two arts community awards: a “Harold” in 2001 and the Sandra Tulloch Award for Innovation in the Arts in 2002. Jane has managed arts organizations since 1970, and was General Manager of the Danny Grossman Dance Company from 1982 to 1999. In 1995, she received the first M. Joan Chalmers Award for Arts Administration for outstanding leadership in the arts. In 2011 she was awarded the Toronto Arts Foundation’s Rita Davies and Margo Bindhardt Cultural Leadership Award.
Her work with the small to mid sized arts organizations has involved the design, structure, and interaction of the organizational format, equation and the planning and organizational learning processes. She believes that it is important to develop new approaches and methods of working to emphasize agile and adaptive organizational responses that are informed by knowledge of constant environmental changes.
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Joanne Churchill (she/her)
Special Projects Manager
As an experienced arts administrator, Joanne Churchill has made a career of championing for increased opportunities for young audiences in the performing arts. Whether it is working to support touring artists and companies in schools and communities, building an inaugural education program for performing arts centres, or working as a consultant for various independent artists, service organizations or festivals, Joanne remains a passionate advocate for high-quality professional arts and culture opportunities for Early Years, children and youth. As Ontario Presents’ Special Project Coordinator and the Project Lead for the New Young Audience Presenter Project, Joanne aims to support the revitalization of new young audience presenters in rural, remote and underserved communities in Ontario through customized consultation, resource sharing, skills development, and network building.
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Ceilidh Wood (she/her)
Program Manager
Ceilidh Wood (she/her) is a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies program and has worked in various areas of arts administration at Massey Hall, Canadian Stage, and Festivals Kelowna. As Program Associate with Ontario Presents, she has coordinated many programs to support the dissemination of the performing arts, including young audience block booking, Theatre Connects, the World Music Development program, and the development of the Arts Touring Connector. She is now the Project Lead for the Slow Touring Project, which explores ways to make touring & presenting more sustainable, healthier, and more relationship-focused. Outside of work, she co-created the activist group ACMJIS (Artists for Climate & Migrant Justice and Indigenous Sovereignty), and sits on the board of the More Co-operative Housing Collective. Ceilidh has a complex chronic illness and is interested in incorporating themes of crip time and resistance to urgency culture into her work and art.
Devanshi Mishra (she/her)
Programs Associate
Email: devanshi [at] ontariopresents.ca (devanshi[at]ontariopresents[dot]ca)
Liam Sanagan (he/him)
Communications Associate
Email: liamsanagan [at] gmail.com (liam[at]sanaganprojects[dot]com)
Deb Daub
Senior Accountant
Email: bedmasbookkeeping [at] gmail.com (bedmasbookkeeping[at]gmail[dot]com)