Executive Director
David Plant
Executive Director
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David Plant has spent his career advancing Canada’s film, television, and supporting creative industries to grow and thrive. As Toronto’s Film Commissioner during the 1990s, he played a pivotal role in transforming the city into North America’s third-largest film and television production centre, attracting landmark productions including Three Men and a Baby, Good Will Hunting, and Moonstruck. He also helped bring The Walt Disney Company to Canada, leading to the opening of its Toronto animation studio.
After leaving the City of Toronto, David joined Silicon Graphics, where he worked with global leaders such as IMAX, Electronic Arts, Alias, and Discreet to advance innovative media technologies and business strategies. Widely respected for his expertise in business development and the evolving media landscape, he continues to advise public agencies and funding organizations while producing acclaimed independent film projects.
An active supporter of Canada’s creative community, David has served in leadership roles with numerous arts and media organizations. As Executive Director of PAL Toronto, he brings decades of experience, strategic vision, and a deep commitment to supporting performing arts professionals.
We welcome your questions, feedback, and ideas.
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Board of Directors
Alan Goluboff
Chair
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Alan Goluboff is a director and veteran film and television professional whose career spans decades. A graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Image Arts, he began as a camera assistant before working his way through virtually every aspect of production, including electric, First Assistant Director, producer, and director.
After making his directorial debut on Destiny Ridge, Alan went on to direct episodes of Mutant X, Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye, Twice in a Lifetime, Traders, Ready or Not, Cold Blood, Rabbit Fall, and Angels & Ornaments, while continuing to build an impressive career as a First Assistant Director. His film credits include Porky’s, Kissinger & Nixon, Dirty Work, Silent Hill, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, K-19: The Widowmaker, Lucky Number Slevin, Firestarter, and many others. His recent television credits include The Mist, In Contempt, Cardinal, Glamorous, and Netflix’s Below.
A respected industry leader, Alan served three terms as National President of the Directors Guild of Canada, chaired DGC Ontario, six years on the board of the Actor’s Fund of Canada and served on the board of the Canadian Film Centre.
Allen MacInnis
Vice Chair
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A professional theatre artist for 45 years – as a director, actor, and teacher – Allen MacInnis spent 26 years as an artistic director (Winnipeg’s Prairie Theatre Exchange and Toronto’s Young People’s Theatre). Those years in senior management challengedand stretched his skills in leadership, board relations, resource development, strategic planning, promotion and providing inspiration to artists and staff.
In his civilian life, Allen is deeply involved in the housing co-op he and his husband live. He spent 12 years as a Board Director including 10 as Board President. He has served on his co-op’s Membership, Maintenance and Capital Planning Committees, often as Chair. Allen has also served on other boards – PACT, TAPA, and Moonhorse Dance Theatre.
Happy to be elected the PAL Board, Allen has pledged to support the good management of PAL’s human and physical assets and to focus on advancing PAL’s
mission to expand its number of units to address the affordable housing needs of
Toronto artists.
Rochelle Porter
Secretary
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A trained, professional child actor, Rochelle performed on radio, television, in films, and on stage. As an adult she managed the communications department, connecting the CBC to audiences in Windsor and Essex County. For more than two decades, Rochelle worked as a radio and television promotion producer, program marketing coordinator, in public relations, and in community outreach. Her multimedia marketing campaign to promote CBC Radio 1550 won an International PromaxBDA Award for "A Windsor Perspective."
CBC cutbacks opened a new career path. At the Multicultural Council of Windsor and Essex County, she was a special projects manager, grant writer, and media liaison. Rochelle also helped government-assisted refugees to adapt to their new lives in Canada. She was part of a team that created a welcoming community for all, through education, community engagement, and the promotion of equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Madeleine Wazana
Treasurer
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I am a passionate believer in affordable housing for all. It is one of the most important issues of these times, and it is especially true in Toronto. Organizations like PAL are a very important leader in this regard, and I would be very honoured to be a part of its continuing work.
My company, Katmadhu Productions Inc., was the first post-production accounting facility in Toronto. I have over 20 years extensive experience in accounting both as Controller and Production Accountant in Film and Television Production.
I served on the Directors Guild of Canada’s (DGC) Board of Directors for several years, and for over a decade, I volunteered at the Canadian Film Centre in their
Feature Film Project Division on many features in support of first-time directors and producers.
With PAL’s current situation in winding down its mortgage, and its forward-thinking direction of further development of affordable housing, I believe I can be an asset on the PAL Board and contribute in the areas of financial management and corporate governance.
Jocelyn Reneuve
Treasurer
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Jocelyn Reneuve has enjoyed a wide range of experience in the performing arts, and arts administration fields. A University of British Columbia graduate with a B.A. in English literature and theatre, she worked and studied at the Arts Club Theatre School. Jocelyn performed at the James Cowan Theatre, as a member of the Chameleon Theatre Group.
Relocating to Toronto in the early 1990s, she continued to study literature at the University of Toronto, and attended theatre classes at George Brown College. Jocelyn balanced her pursuit of professional roles with manuscript editing, arts administration, and accounting.
A long-time supporter of PAL Toronto, she was the coordinator of the charity division from 2005 to 2011, working with the Board and residents on multiple projects, and was first elected to the Board in 2019. Jocelyn also liaised with Autumn Productions for The Limelighters, a documentary about the residents of PAL Toronto.
Elizabeth Hanna
Director
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Elizabeth officially joined the PAL Community, moving in December 2022.
As an actor she has worked in all media: radio, stage, large and small screen, but she is best known as a voice artist appearing in dozens of cartoons including Care Bears, Barbar, Beetlejuice, Little Bear, Dog City, Sailor Moon, and most recently in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora video game and Daniel Tiger’s Neighbourhood.
A case of vocal nodules that she developed during a production of Ten Lost Years at TWP spurred an interest in Speech Language Pathology and she went back to school in her 40's. She has since worked extensively in the hospital setting working with adults with neurological disorders. As an Educator and Co –Lead of Interprofessional Education and Care at the University Health Network she collaborated with students, trainees and professional teams across the health care system. She currently enjoys an active private practice focused on accent modification, voice and professional communication.
Elva Mai Hoover
Director
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Elva Mai Hoover was Chair of the Board of Directors of PAL Toronto from 2018 to 2022, and is serving the residents once again, as an active Board member. The Residential Accommodation Committee, which she chairs, reviews applications for residency according to our building mandate.
Elva is the definition of a working actor, with more than six decades of experience, three ACTRA Award nominations and one Genie Award nomination. In 2015, ACTRA National Council granted Elva a Life Membership, in recognition of her contribution to building Canada’s cultural industry. She is also a Life Member of Canadian Actors’ Equity, and a member of British Equity.
Elva has played leading parts across Canada, including the Stratford Festival, and has had continuing TV roles in Road to Avonlea, The Edison Twins, Queer as Folk. Her recent film and TV appearances include Strays, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Expanse, The Christmas Chalet, The Romanovs, Mama, and Murdoch Mysteries.
Paul Kennedy
Director
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A veteran broadcast journalist, broadcaster and award-winning documentarist. His contributions in research, writing and presenting with various CBC network radio shows are expansive. In 1999 Paul was appointed Host/Producer of CBC’s IDEAS and continued his role on the program until his retirement in 2019.
Paul won national and international recognition for his work, including an ACTRA award for best Canadian radio documentary for a program called, "War on the Home Front," co-authored with Timothy Findley. He has also moderated at least a dozen Festival Forum events, interviews and panel discussions for the Stratford Festival.
Colleen Murphy
Director
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Before moving to PAL in 2023, she resided in a building run by Artscape and lived through its bankruptcy. Passionate about subsidized housing for artists, Colleen is keen to be part of strengthening and guaranteeing the future of PAL Toronto. Born in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, and raised in Northern Ontario, Colleen won the 2016 and 2007 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama for her plays Pig Girl and The December Man / L'homme de décembre respectively. Both plays were also won the Carol Bolt Award for Outstanding Play. Selected plays include The Breathing Hole (nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in the U.S.), The Society For The Destitute Presents Titus Bouffonius, Armstrong's War, The Goodnight Bird, The Piper, and Beating Heart Cadaver (nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award). She is a librettist and an award-winning filmmaker. Colleen has been Writer-in-Residence at seven Canadian universities and Playwright-in-Residence at two Canadian theatres, as well as at Finborough Theatre in London, UK. She is President of the Board of Playwrights Canada Press, and is a member of the Order of Canada.
Sheldon Rosen
Director
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I’ve spent more than five decades working as a playwright, educator,and storyteller. Since 1972, I’ve produced 17 plays across Canada and the United States, including Ned and Jack, staged at the Stratford Festival, directed on Broadway by Colleen Dewhurst, and received the Canadian Authors Association Award for Drama.
Throughout my career, I’ve held residencies at the National Arts Centre, the Stratford Festival, and the Shaw Festival. I also founded the playwriting program at the National Theatre School of Canada and taught at the Toronto Metropolitan University where I received the McConnell Curricular Innovation Award.
In addition to my creative work in theatre, radio, television, film, and opera, I’ve been fortunate to serve in leadership roles, including Chair of the Guild of Canadian Playwrights and board member of the Access Foundation. These experiences have deepened my commitment to mentorship, collaboration, and community-building within the arts.
Today, I continue to develop new work while staying actively involved in supporting artists. I look forward to contributing meaningfully to the PAL Toronto community.
Patrick Young
Director
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Patrick Young has earned his living in the theatre as actor, director, teacher, and playwright since 1971.
He headed Professional Actor-Training at Dalhousie and served for twenty-five years as Founding Artistic Director of Theatre Erindale and the joint Sheridan-UTM Theatre & Drama Studies training program. He has written industrial shows, musicals, and adaptations of classics from Shakespeare to Ibsen – as well as countless contracts, handbooks, briefs, reports, brochures and programs.
He has worked with architects, builders and colleagues to design half a dozen major construction and renovation projects. And he has straddled the red tape between multiple major institutions and lived to tell the tale! In recent years, the time spent with PAL friends and PAL events has become a valued part of his life, and he’s hoping his skills can make a contribution to governance, administration and communications at PAL Toronto.
Tim Ziegler
Director
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Tim worked as a professional actor for over twelve years. His wife, his parents, and many of his closest friends have all been part of the performing arts world. That lived experience gives him a real understanding of how artists think, work, and make a living.
These days, he runs a financial advisory practice in Stratford, focused on helping artists and the organizations that support them. His clients include actors, designers, arts administrators, and leaders in the cultural sector across Ontario.
Tim’s work is about helping people in the arts build financial stability in a field that rarely offers it. He understands the rhythms of the industry because he’s lived them himself.
As a board member at PAL Toronto, Tim brings that financial expertise, and a deep personal connection to the community. He cares about this work, and he’s proud to support artists through every stage of their lives.
“I’ve been living at PAL since 1998. I love this place. PAL is a unique community in a special location of a great city. Living next door to one of the greatest markets in the world and living in a community of creative interests is also special.”
- Barbara Sadegur; PAL Board Member 2001-2005 & 2020-2022