BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

  for Janis A. Barlow

Janis Barlow established an arts consulting practice in Ontario in 1981 after a decade of work in Ontario theatres while she earned degrees in drama, sociology and architecture. Throughout the 1980s, she was best known as the Ontario Government's project manager for the $30 million rehabilitation of the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres in Toronto.

Since the 1990s, she has undertaken feasibility studies and management plans for dozens of projects throughout the United States and Canada. She was one of the first arts consultants in Canada to adapt successful corporate strategic planning workshop methods to the distinctive needs of non-profit arts organizations. She has facilitated over 100 strategic planning workshops for artist-run organizations, emerging community arts boards, arts councils, professional theatres and associations.

Janis has served on the board of the Toronto Theatre Alliance, the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre (an international UNESCO project) and the League of Historic American Theatres. She is a founding member of Arts Consultants Canada and Those Women: Consultants to the Arts.

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