Governance

Actsafe is governed by the industries it represents through a Board of Directors and two standing committees that represent both the motion picture and performing arts industries. Membership on the Board and these committees include a balance of employer and worker representatives.

Our Core Values are:

Collaboration – Innovation – Accessibility

Board

Standing Committees

Governance Links

Board

Lynne Charbonneau

Chair

Lynne Charbonneau is a lawyer who has practised for over 25 years, first with a Canadian national law firm and then in-house at a global financial institution. Recently, she was appointed as a judge of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal in Washington DC. Locally, she serves on the Board of Directors of BlueShore Financial Credit Union. She is a member of the Futures Task Force of the Law Society of British Columbia and the Dean’s Advisory Committee for the Centre for Business Law at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia.

Ted Violini

Vice-Chair

Ted Violini is co-founder and COO of Theory+Practice, a rapidly growing Vancouver based company at the forefront of cutting edge AI/ML and Data Solutions. Ted and his team are absolutely obsessed with delivering predictable ROI for their client partners.

For over two decades, Ted has been honing his operations management and leadership skills across a wide range of business sectors, including the finance, hospitality, NGO, PPP, and commercial construction industries.

This background has given him extensive experience in HR, 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.

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 wellbeing, and has a long experience of being involved with workplace health and safety.

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.

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.

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.

Michael Van Dijk

Treasurer

Standing Committees

Actsafe operates through two standing committees;

Performing Arts Standing Committee

BC Alliance for Arts + Culture
Beverly Edgecombe

British Columbia Touring Council
Joanna Maratta

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 Convention Centre
Chris Sprague

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
Keith Woods

International Cinematographers Guild – Local 669
Nicole Paulus

NBC/Universal
Paul Jordan

Netflix
Jonathan Osland

Paramount Pictures Corporation
Jonas Matz

Sony Pictures
Bram Cole

Teamsters – Local 155
Shawn Henter

Union of British Columbia Performers / ACTRA
Lori Stewart