Our Core Values are:
Collaboration – Innovation – Accessibility
Ted Violini
Chair
Ted Violini is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Theory+Practice, a Vancouver-based SaaS scale-up. Theory+Practice deploys ML and AI solutions that enable enterprises in the Retail, Finance, and Insurance sectors to gain a deeper dynamic understanding of their customers. By establishing AI engines that continuously learn from customer interactions and improve over time, Theory+Practice helps brands get closer to their customers, anticipate their needs, and meaningfully serve them.
Ted specializes in people enablement and actively facilitates building people up to perform their best. With his philosophy of “people are the key to an organization’s success,” Ted brings a special type of care and support to his role as Theory+Practice’s COO.
Ted has over 20 years of executive operations and project management experience across diverse industries, including NGOs, commercial construction, finance, and technology. This background has given him extensive experience in people enablement, human resources, contract management, corporate administration, security and compliance, and organizational finance. He has managed mission-critical projects with budgets ranging from $100K to $150M. He knows how to generate a return-on-effort by assembling and leading diverse teams to accomplish organizational goals with limited risk.
Ted has sat on multiple boards in the Not for Profit sector and appreciates the work he has been able to do in the NGO and charity sectors. A highlight of Ted’s career occurred during his role as General Manager at the Dalai Lama Center when he directed the effort of the Dalai Lama’s visit to Vancouver in 2014. Ted is passionate about the science of well-being and has a long experience being involved with workplace health and safety.
Dr. Roslyn Kunin
Vice-Chair
Dr. Roslyn Kunin is one of those rare economists who can make the often difficult subject of economics understandable and even interesting.
She was educated in Quebec and Ontario, finishing her studies with a Ph.D. in economics from the University of British Columbia. The University of Victoria has granted her the degree of Honorary Doctor of Laws. The Institute of Corporate Directors has granted her the ICD.D designation.
She has been awarded the Crystal Ball Award by the Association of Professional Economists, the Woman of Distinction Award by the YWCA and a Canada 125 medal for service to Canada and is a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia.
Dr. Kunin was a director of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research and is now on the council of Applied Sciences Technicians and Technologists of BC. She was Chair of the Haida Enterprise Corporation and has served the community in many positions including Chair of WorkSafe BC, Chair of the Vancouver Stock Exchange, Director of the Business Development Bank of Canada, Director of the Canada West Foundation, Governor of the University of British Columbia, Chair of the Vancouver Crisis Centre, member of the National Statistics Council and Vice-President of the YWCA. She has published numerous articles and books.
In her career, Dr. Kunin has worked in the private sector, written a weekly newspaper column, taught at several Canadian universities including Simon Fraser and UBC. She served twenty years as Regional Economist for the federal government in B.C. and Yukonand ten years as the Executive Director of the Laurier Institution. She is in private practice as a consulting economist
Michael Van Dijk
Treasurer
Rob Larson
Motion Picture Worker Representative
Rob Larson works as the Business Agent for the DGC BC and is responsible for the management and administration of the Collective Agreement. He is the chief negotiator of the DGC BC contract. Rob also participates in marketing endeavours through MPPIA to promote BC as a production destination. Rob actively runs the Reel Thanksgiving Challenge in support of the Greater Vancouver Foodbank. He has various Board positions for the Leo Awards, Whistler Film Festival and now sits as the Motion Picture Worker Representative on the Actsafe Board.
Tracey Wood
Motion Picture Employer Representative
Tracey is a lawyer by training, called to the bar of Ontario in 1993 and the bar of BC in 1998. She has worked in the entertainment and motion picture industries for 23 years and for the past 10 she has been the labour relations representative for the major U.S. studios in Canada. She has been involved with Actsafe since its beginnings and currently is the Employer Representative for Motion Picture.
Dave Wilson
Performing Arts Worker Representative
Dave has been an Actsafe Performing Arts Standing Committee member since early 2018 and a Board member from 2019. He is a member of IATSE Local 118 (Vancouver, stage) and serves on the Local’s Executive Board as a Member-at-Large. His background also includes many years in association management, communications, and educational services through both employment and service with local, provincial, national, and international organizations. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce in human resources management and is a Certified Association Executive – a professional designation awarded by the Canadian Society of Association Executives.
Miles Muir
Performing Arts Employer Representative
In the early 1980’s, Miles planned to attend Malaspina College’s tech theatre diploma program and to carry on to the University of Victoria for a degree in theatre – but after a year and a half in Nanaimo, he was hired by the college full time as the Technical Director of the theatre and was able to work on a large fully professional summer theatre festival called “Shakespeare +” in Nanaimo. It was also here that he began to be interested in worker health and safety in the performing arts and how that can fit in to the regulatory world of WorkSafeBC.
Miles moved to Victoria and was able to work at the McPherson Playhouse and Royal Theatres, and became the Production Manager at the Belfry Theatre in Victoria. In Vancouver, Miles has worked on Expo 86 as the Technical Director of one of the theatres in the Canada Pavilion, toured with the Vancouver Chamber Choir, and, as a member of IATSE Local 118 / 168, worked as a stage hand in all the major Vancouver venues. He has also toured internationally with various large Broadway musicals such as “Phantom of the Opera” and “Showboat”.
Miles has been the Technical Director of the three Civic Theatres (Queen Elizabeth Theatre, The Orpheum, and the Vancouver Playhouse), employed by the City of Vancouver for the last 21 years, and has been an active participant in Shape/Actsafe since its inception in 1998.
Actsafe operates through two standing committees: Performing Arts and Motion Picture.
Performing Arts Standing Committee
Arts Club Theatre Company
BC Alliance for Arts & Culture
BC Music Festival Collective
BC Touring Council
Brandlive
Canadian Actors’ Equity Association (CAEA)
Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists – BC Chapter (dba CADA/West)
Canadian Institute of Theatre Technology (CITT)
Dancer Transition Resource Centre (DTRC) BC Office
Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance (GVPTA)
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE)
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) 118
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) 168
Kelowna Community Theatre
Live Nation
Opera Mariposa
Peter Boulanger
Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT)
Riggit Services Inc.
The Dance Centre
Vancouver Civic Theatres
Vancouver Convention Center
Vancouver Musicians Association (VMA) – Local 145
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Motion Picture Standing Committee
Alameda Entertainment B.C. (Disney)
Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP)
Arts Club Theatre Company
Association of Canadian Film Craftspeople (ACFC) West
BC Alliance for Arts & Culture
BC Council of Film Unions (BCCFU)
BC Music Festival Collective
BC Touring Council
Brandlive
Canadian Actors’ Equity Association (CAEA)
Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists – BC Chapter (dba CADA/West)
Canadian Institute of Theatre Technology (CITT)
Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) – BC Producer’s Branch
Commercial Producers Association of Western Canada (CPAWC)
Contract Services Administration Trust Fund (CSATF)
Dancer Transition Resource Centre (DTRC) BC Office
Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) BC
Front Street Pictures
Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance (GVPTA)
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE)
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) 118
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) 168
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) 891
International Cinematographers Guild – Local 669/International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) 669
Intrepid Theatre Company Society
Kelowna Community Theatre
Legendary Entertainment
Live Nation
NBC/Universal Studios Canada
Netflix
Opera Mariposa
Paramount Pictures Corporation (Canada) Inc.
Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT)
Riggit Services Inc.
Sony Pictures
Teamsters – Local 155
The Dance Centre
The Underground Circus
Union of BC Performers (UBCP) / ACTRA
Vancouver Civic Theatres
Vancouver Convention Center
Vancouver Musicians Association (VMA) – Local 145
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Warner Bros
Performing Arts Standing Committee
BC Alliance for Arts + Culture
Beverly Edgecombe
British Columbia Touring Council
Canadian Actors Equity Association
Jennifer Riedle
Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists
Jessica Wadsworth
Canadian Institute of Theatre Technology
Alex House
Dancer Transition Resource Centre
Megan Andrews
Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance
Ace Martens
IATSE International
Julia Neville
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees – Local 118
Dave Wilson
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees – Local 168
George Scott
Professional Association of Canadian Theatres
Carey Dodge
Riggit Services Inc.
Matt Lees
The Dance Centre
Chengyan Boon
Underground Circus
Peter Boulanger
Vancouver Civic Theatres
Miles Muir
Vancouver Musicians Association – Local 145
Dusty Kelly
Motion Picture Standing Committee
Alameda Entertainment B.C. (Disney)
Sion Dettra
Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers
Tracey Wood
Association of Canadian Film Craftspeople
Jeff Holloway
British Columbia Council of Film Unions
Paul Klassen
Canadian Media Producers Association – BC Producers Branch
Jason Lee
Contract Services Administration Trust Fund
Matthew Antonucci
Creative BC
Katherine Pavoni
Directors Guild of Canada – British Columbia
Rob Larson
Front Street Pictures
Allen Lewis
IATSE International
Julia Neville
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees – Local 891
Mitch Davies
International Cinematographers Guild – Local 669
Keith Woods
NBC/Universal
Jeff Egan
Netflix
Jonathan Osland
Paramount Pictures Corporation
Jonas Matz
Sony Pictures
Bram Cole
Teamsters – Local 155
David Holm
Union of British Columbia Performers / ACTRA
Lori Stewart
Vancouver Musicians Association – Local 145
Dusty Kelly
Warner Bros.
TBA
Actsafe has provided the following documents to help our audiences better understand our role, operations, and the industries we serve.
- Wondering what the future holds for Actsafe? Read our 2018 – 2022 Strategic Business Plan for more details.
- 2021’s audit, operations, and reporting are covered in Actsafe’s 2021 Annual Report.
- Have questions about the rules under which we operate? Read our current Bylaws.
- Why not check out Actsafe’s Market Penetration Survey Report, carried out by WorkSafeBC in 2022.
- Information about Board and Standing Committees from our Board Policies
Annual Reports
Take a look at Actsafe Safety Association’s past performances from our annual reports.
STRATEGIC Business Plans
Read Actsafe Safety Association’s strategic business plans to learn about what our strategic approach and actions are for the coming years.