STAFF AND BOARD MEMBERS

Kirby Wirchenko, Executive Director

Kirby Wirchenko can be considered rooted in the Broadway area – he has worked on the same block as the theatre from 1991 to 2006, engaged in a wide berth of experience with both people and management. He is both a writer and a musician and supports the arts through volunteering and attending a diversity of events. His attendance at Broadway films dates back to 1984 where he saw The Yellow Submarine. Kirby plans to settle firm roots in Saskatoon with a job that gives back to the community; he is particularly jazzed about getting the Broadway Theatre experience to as many Saskatonians as possible!  Kirby’s favorite films are Spinal Tap, Mon Oncle, and all Wes Anderson films.

Arla Gustafson
Vice President
Arla is now serving her Third Year on the Board

Executive Director of The Royal University Hospital Foundation. Arla’s work in the voluntary over the past 22 years has resulted in strengthening local organizational capacities and establishing new shared learning and networking opportunities. Arla’s enthusiasm for and commitment to voluntary sector leadership in community is evident in everything she touches.

Favourite Movies: Don't Look Now, Dr. Zhivago and Being John Malkovich

Guy Edlund
Business owner
President
Guy is now serving his Third Year on the Board

Guy Edlund has recently returned to Saskatoon after 13 years in Calgary. He has had a long association with the theatre and the Broadway area and became involved with the theatre board in November of 2007.


Favourite Movies: too many movies to narrow it down -- some that stand out would be Last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day Lewis, Fargo by the Coen brothers, and Snatch with Brad Pitt.

James Hawn
James is now serving his Third Year on the Board

A retired high school educator, James now teaches adult education at SIAST, Kelsey Campus. He is currently director of Saskatoon Chamber Singers and has often directed for Saskatoon Gateway Players and Saskatoon Summer Players. At present he is treasurer for the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors and chair of TCU-Place Board.

Favourite Movies: Breaker Morant, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gallipoli

Mickey Woodard
Lawyer
Mickey is now serving his Third Year on the Board

Mickey Woodard has lived in the Broadway area for the past 30 years and is a long time supporter of the Theatre. In his professional life, he was legal counsel for the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission for 25 years and he is now in private practice at the firm of MacPherson Leslie Tyerman. Mickey has served on many volunteer boards. He says there have been too many good movies over the years to pick only three but he doesn't like movies that have anything to do with lawyers.

Jason Aebig, Member at Large
Jason is now serving his Third Year on the Board

Jason is a senior communications strategist with Creative Fire, a leading corporate communications and public relations agency based in Saskatoon. When he's not working with clients, he is an active community volunteer, amateur home renovator, and mediocre golfer. He also serves on the boards of a number of organizations he cares about, including the Mendel Art Gallery, Family Service Saskatoon, U of S Alumni Association, and the Albert Community Centre.

Favorite Movies: Thirteen Days; 12 Angry Men; Wag the Dog; All the President's Men; the Godfather; Pulp Fiction; Ocean's 11; most any movie about WWII.

John Lenz
John is now serving his Second Year on the Board

John teaches ESL at the U of S Language Centre to adults from around the world. When he's not teaching, he's trying to learn, whether it be on the motorcycle race track, in the language-learning classroom, or in the arena of philosophical debate.

His favorite things about the Broadway Theatre are how it brings people and ideas together that rarely mix in our modern society, how it's infused with the local flavour of the neighbourhood, city, province, country, and world that we live in, and how it is a business that supports artists, allowing them to be able to afford to share their unique and much-needed messages, talents, and gifts with the world.

Favorite movies: Rab ne Bana di Jodi (the 1st Bollywood Sundays movie), Crash, and The Lord of the Rings.

Matt Hladun
Treasurer
Matt is now serving his Second Year on the Board

Sean Junor
Sean is now serving his Second Year on Board

Sean recently returned to Saskatoon to work in human resources at Cameco after working and enjoying diverse live productions in both Montreal and Toronto for eight years. In Montreal, he frequented Cinema Du Parc – a small English repertory cinema in downtown Montreal – and often attended movies during city’s various film festivals. In Toronto, he was an avoid movie watcher at the Cumberland on Bloor Street.
Prior to locating to Central Canada, Sean was fortunate enough to serve two terms on the University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union. He looks forward to the opportunity to engage in the cultural community of Saskatoon now enjoys contributing to the continued success of such a strong cultural and community icon – the Broadway Theatre.

Favorite Movies: Usual Suspects, Goodfellas, Sideways, Wall-E, Big Lebowski, Fight Club and the Dark Knight.

Kris Webb
Kris is serving his First Year on Board

Kris is a local musician who works at St. John's Music on Broadway. He moved to Saskatoon in 2004 and has resided in the Nutana/Broadway area ever since. Kris has been an avid attendee of the theatre for both film and live events, and is very excited to be a part of the board.

Kris hopes that his connection to the Canadian music scene will help the Broadway theatre to expand its live events, and is hoping to bring the sense of community and enjoyment of the theatre to those who haven't yet experienced it.

Favourite movies: Among the many include Halloween (1978), Underground, Battle Royale, Torso, and Russ Meyer films.

Tyler Baptist
Tyler is serving his First Year on Board

Tyler currently works as an editor for Media Group, one of Saskatoon's premiere production companies. He has been actively involved in Saskatchewan's film industry for well over ten years and had worked every odd job he could to gain both knowledge and experience. Tyler is also an avid film aficionado and collector and he also programs the monthly midnight films at the Broadway Theatre.

Tyler was born and raised in Saskatoon and has been attending the Broadway Theatre since he was a young lad. Not only does he enjoy, and contribute to, film but he is also an active musician in Saskatoon's music scene and a co-host for CFCR 90.5 FM's Reel to Reel film talk show. Tyler is hoping through the Broadway Theatre and the other mediums he is involved with outside to bring a new generation to experience the Broadway Theatre.

Favourite movies: The Toxic Avenger (1984), Dawn of the Dead (1978), The 400 Blows (1959), and American Movie (1999).

Rob Maguire
Rob is serving his First Year on Board

Rob is the Marketing & Sponsorship Director for the Saskatchewan Jazz Festival, and is also the editor of Art Threat, a website on cultural policy, politics and the arts.

Prior to moving to Saskatoon in 2008, Rob lived in Montreal where he worked for the National Film Board of Canada, and moonlighted as a communications consultant for a variety of filmmakers and arts organization.

Some of his favourite films include Darwin's Nightmare, The Lives of Others, War Photographer, Ce qu'il faut pour vivre, Eastern Promises and Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

Kathy Decker
Kathy is serving her First Year on Board

Born and raised in Saskatoon, Kathy has been a resident of the Broadway area for 18 years.