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Judy Harquail (she/her)
Director of Programs
Judy has over 35 years of experience working in the performing arts including organizational development, strategic planning, financial management, arts marketing, funding, and tour management, working in collaboration with an extensive range of arts organizations and arts professionals across Canada, the United States, and throughout the world.
In 2011 Judy produced the ISPA Congress in Toronto and produced the 2016 Toronto IAMA Conference. She is the 2007 recipient of the National Arts Centre award for distinguished contribution to touring in Canada and the 2011 Sandra Tulloch Award for Innovation in Arts and Culture in Ontario.
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Jane Marsland (she/her)
Project Lead
Jane Marsland has been an articulate advocate for the arts for many years and has served on a wide range of boards, advisory groups and committees. Jane was a co-founder of For Dance and Opera, co-founder and Director of Technical Assistance of The Creative Trust: Working Capital for the Arts, as well as co-founder and director of ARTS 4 CHANGE. She has been the recipient of two arts community awards: a “Harold” in 2001 and the Sandra Tulloch Award for Innovation in the Arts in 2002. Jane has managed arts organizations since 1970, and was General Manager of the Danny Grossman Dance Company from 1982 to 1999. In 1995, she received the first M. Joan Chalmers Award for Arts Administration for outstanding leadership in the arts. In 2011 she was awarded the Toronto Arts Foundation’s Rita Davies and Margo Bindhardt Cultural Leadership Award.
Her work with the small to mid sized arts organizations has involved the design, structure, and interaction of the organizational format, equation and the planning and organizational learning processes. She believes that it is important to develop new approaches and methods of working to emphasize agile and adaptive organizational responses that are informed by knowledge of constant environmental changes.
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Joanne Churchill (she/her)
Interim Administrative Director
Joanne Churchill brings over 25 years of experience working with arts organizations across disciplines, including festivals, arts service organizations, and municipal performing arts centres. She has long championed increased access to the performing arts for both artists and audiences throughout Ontario. Her expertise spans project development, management, strategic planning, and resource development—all grounded in a deep commitment to collaboration and teamwork.
In addition to her role as Interim Administrative Director at Ontario Presents, Joanne will continue to serve as Project Lead for the New Young Audience Presenter Project, supporting the revitalization of young audience presenting in rural, remote, and underserved communities across the province.
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Ceilidh Wood (she/her)
Program Manager - Slow Touring
Ceilidh Wood (she/her) is a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies program and has worked in various areas of arts administration at Massey Hall, Canadian Stage, and Festivals Kelowna. As Program Associate with Ontario Presents, she has coordinated many programs to support the dissemination of the performing arts, including young audience block booking, Theatre Connects, the World Music Development program, and the development of the Arts Touring Connector. She is now the Project Lead for the Slow Touring Project, which explores ways to make touring & presenting more sustainable, healthier, and more relationship-focused. Outside of work, she co-created the activist group ACMJIS (Artists for Climate & Migrant Justice and Indigenous Sovereignty), and sits on the board of the More Co-operative Housing Collective. Ceilidh has a complex chronic illness and is interested in incorporating themes of crip time and resistance to urgency culture into her work and art.
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Cynthia Lickers-Sage
Indigenous Liaison
Cynthia Lickers-Sage is a proud recipient of the Governor-General of Canada’s Meritorious Service Cross. Following her graduation at the Ontario College of Art and Design, she Co-Founded The Centre for Aboriginal Media, imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, and is the sole proprietor of Clickers Productions. She has spent the last two decades working in the not-for-profit arts sector as the former Executive Director at the Association for Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts, and the General Manager at Kaha:wi Dance Theatre where she gained valuable skills to take on her current position as the Executive Director at the Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance.
Liam Sanagan (he/him)
Communications Associate
Email: liam [at] ontariopresents.ca (liam[at]ontariopresents[dot]ca)
Deb Daub
Senior Accountant
Email: bedmasbookkeeping [at] gmail.com (bedmasbookkeeping[at]gmail[dot]com)
Ontario Presents 2025-2026 Board of Directors
- Chair: Sara Palmieri, Executive Director, Burlington Performing Arts Centre, Burlington
- Vice-Chair: Jahn Fawcett, Portfolio Manager, Shenkman Arts Centre, Ottawa
- Treasurer: Dan Misturada, Director of Programming and Events, Capitol Centre, North Bay
- Secretary: Nicole Rochefort, Founder, AIM: Artists In Motion, Toronto
- Alyson Martin, Chairperson, Sioux Hudson Entertainment Series, Sioux Lookout
- Dan Watson, Executive Director, Huntsville Festival of the Arts, Huntsville
- Debora Johns, Manager, Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts, Oakville