Don Boynton was elected President of StoryBook Theatre Society in 2007 after serving a year as Secretary. He and his family, Wendy and Sean-Paul, have been volunteers at StoryBook since 2000.

A communications management consultant with more than 30 years experience across Canada, Don has been Director, Communications for Travel Alberta since 1999. Don has also served in senior executive roles with public relation firms in Calgary, Toronto and St. Catharines, Ontario working on assignments and programs for local, national and international clients in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Don has been an active adult volunteer with Scouts Canada for more than 10 years.

An accredited member of the Canadian Public Relations Society, Don is a member of the Society's National Accreditation Council and is former president of the Society's Calgary chapter. He also chaired advisory committees for the Public Relations Program at Mount Royal College and the JOurnalism Program at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.

Don is an honours graduate of the public relations program at Humber College of Applied Arts and Technology in Toronto. He also studied at the University of New Brunswick

Randy has been involved with StoryBook since 2001 when he accompanied his daughter on guitar to audition for Joseph, and he subsequently was cast as Rusty in The Bremmen Town. His daughter was not cast in Joseph and his guilt still lingers at getting cast when his daughter was the one auditioning.

Randy has been involved in Theatre since 1977 and moved to Calgary from Edmonton in 1991. He had previously been involved in Edmonton with the family oriented Walterdale Theatre from 1984 to 1990. He searched for a similar type of Theatre in Calgary, working in several groups until a friend mentioned StoryBook in 2001. After attending his first Cookie Cabaret show with his children, Randy was captivated with the quality and style of StoryBook.

Randy has worked at StoryBook as an actor, musician, musical director, composer, playwright and director. He brings not only theatrical experience, but experience as a president of a successful nationally sold Toy and Game industry company. He is committed to keeping StoryBook Theatre vibrant, successful and a producer of quality family theatre as both a theatre member and a board member.

Mike joined the StoryBook board in 2001 and has been the board's treasurer since 2007.

Roy was born in Kamloops BC, but moved to Trenton Ontario at a very young age when his father, a WWII veteran, rejoined the military. Roy grew up in Air Force bases in three provinces and oversees in Germany. Roy joined the Canadian Armed Militia at age 16 and spent 2 1/2 years in the Artillery regiment. Immediately after graduating from high school in Portage-la-Prairie Manitoba, Roy joined the Regular Force and spent the next 36 years with the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals and then the Communications and Electronics Branch. Roy benefited from the Canadian Forces full time education programmes by obtaining a BA in Political Science and Economics and a MA in Public Administration at Carlton University.

During his career, Roy undertook 20 disparate jobs in 11 different locations including Brussels, Belgium and Washington D.C. During these tours Roy acquired comprehensive knowledge and experience in financial policy governance, personnel management and project management jobs, in both national and international settings. After retiring from the Canadian Forces, Roy spent almost two years of academic training in financial management and conflict resolution. Since then Roy has been working in financial and life planning and teaching policy governance to not-for-profit boards through the Alberta Community Development Programme.

In addition to his volunteer work with FSNA Calgary and District Branch, Roy is a Director with the Scenic Acre Community and StoryBook Theatre, Roy and his wife have two adult children. Ann is a Registered Nurse at the Foothills Hospital. Roy's hobbies include hiking, photography, and wood working.

Doug's formal background is Engineering and Computer Science. After graduating from Waterloo in 1981, he worked for Esso Resources Canada Ltd. for 10 years building large financial applications. Since first volunteering for StoryBook Theatre in 1985, he has contributed thousands of volunteer hours; including a total 14 years on the Board (9 as President), organizing numerous fundraisers, participating in productions on stage and backstage and all aspects of theatre management.

In 2001 - 2002 as StoryBook President, Doug was the organizing force behind the current Community Arts Centre in the Currie Barracks, arranging the design, partnerships, fundraising and then managing the construction process under tight deadlines to complete the building in time for the annual fundraiser.

His 22 year association with StoryBook Theatre led him to build a world class CRM application for Theatre Management based on management principles honed as a key volunteer in a not-for-profit organization. His company, Arts Management Systems Ltd, (based in Calgary) sells, installs and trains venues around the world how to u se their flagship product 'Theatre Manager' to manage the business of arts management. Theatre Manager is used by 2,000 people to manage approximately $500,000,000.00 in annual ticket sales and track large fundraising projects - all using management principles and processes then grew from insights at StoryBook.

Doug believes that Arts is a foundation of our society and is pleased to bring his extensive background in Theatre Management to the process of building a future community arts community for community arts organizations.

Stephen is principally responsible for creative development and artistic solutions. A graduate of the University of Calgary's Bachelor of Commerce program, Stephen also studied Drama and developed an excellent background in theatrical production. His event creative features a unique blend of business ethic and artistic license; the result is event creative that makes his clients shine.

Stephen is a current instructor in Mount Royal College's event management certificate program and a past-President of the International Special Event Society (ISES) Calgary Chapter. He is committed to improving the level of professionalism in the event industry by encouraging professional standards and ethics. Stephen is a graduate of the 2001 class of Leadership Calgary and is currently a Vice President of the Alexandra Community Health Centre in Inglewood and Chair of the Agape Hospice Community Council.

Cameron is an engineer, musician and community development practitioner. He is a Betty-award winning composer and is actively involved in both the professional and community theatre communities.

Cameron has written several shows for StoryBook Theatre, including original adaptations of "Robyn Hood" and "The Jungle Book" (with Louis B. Hobson).