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Johanne Deleeuw
Executive Director: Johanne Deleeuw

Johanne has been working in professional theatre in Calgary since 1985, when she graduated from the University of Calgary Drama Department. She has worked as a Stage Manager, Production Manager, Director and Dramaturge. She was the Artistic Director of Lunchbox Theatre from 1999 to 2005, where she coordinated and dramaturged The Petro-Canada Stage One Plays, a national new play development program. She has worked with many, many of Alberta's (and Canada's) outstanding playwrights and has directed plays for Lunchbox Theatre, Destiny Theatre, The Actor's Conspiracy, Shakespeare In The Park, Ground Zero Theatre, Blacklist Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects and Vertigo Theatre.

Resident Dramaturge: Trevor Rueger

Trevor has been working as an actor, writer, director and dramaturg in Calgary for over 20 years. As an actor he has been seen at Vertigo Theatre, Lunchbox Theatre, Stage West and The Citadel Theatre. He has directed at Vertigo, Lunchbox, Ground Zero/Pot of Jam Productions and for Shadow Productions. Trevor has three TYA shows to his credit as a writer and is currently working on a play and a film. Trevor has been an Artistic Associate and head writer with Shadow Productions for 15 years and is a company member of Dirty Laundry - Calgary's Only Completely Live, Completely Improvised soap opera. He also produces and writes the annual Betty Mitchell Awards for professional theatre in Calgary.
Trevor Rueger

Val Lieske
Administrator: Val Lieske

In addition to her work as the office administrator for APN, Val is also the co-founder and Artistic Director of Fire Exit Theatre. She works with Centre Street Church as the Director of Theatre Arts, with Alberta Bible College as an instructor and as a freelance writer and publicist. Val feeds her passion for theatre through acting, directing, writing, and producing. Her writing credits include, Coffee Talk, God's Attention, Bruised Not Broken, Absence (winner Best Original Script CAT Awards) and Past Tense. Val's first attempt at a book, Crossroads Café was listed as by the Calgary Herald, as one of the top ten best selling books in Calgary.

Edmonton Liaison: Brian Dooley

Brian has been involved in radio, television, film and theatre for over twenty-five years as a producer, director, actor, writer and instructor. As an actor, he received a Gemini nomination for The Boys of St. Vincent and has been nominated for Dora Mavor Moore, Sterling Hayes and Betty Mitchell awards for his acting. He has also been honoured with two AMPIA awards. Brian was Associate Dramaturge and Director of the Young Playwrights Program at the Playwrights Workshop in Montreal, and has been a guest instructor at various colleges and universities across the country. From 1990-94 Brian lead and coordinated the Directing and Self-Start Programs of the National Theatre School in Montreal, and was an Acting Instructor from 1983-94. Fluently bilingual, Brian relocated from Montreal to Edmonton in 1995.
Brian Dooley


APN's Board of Directors is comprised of playwrights and playwright enhusiasts along with key figures from Alberta's corporate community.
Board of Directors:

President:Lindsay Burns
Past-President:Eugene Stickland
Vice-President South:Jason Patrick Rothery
Vice-President North:Collin Doyle
Secretary:Gail Hanrahan
Treasurer:Fuad Abboud
Members-At-Large:R. Jonathan Chapman
Ethan Cole
Gilbert da Silva
Katherine Koller

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