2016
Bruce Klinger has been working in Atlantic Canada’s arts community for over thirty-five years. He began his career at Neptune Theatre in 1981 and worked in the Box Office, as Front-of-House Manager, Tour Coordinator, and Assistant to the Theatre Director. He then spent 10 years as General Manager of Neptune Theatre and saw the organization through the building of their new $13.5 million facility.
He opened his own business as an arts management consultant in 2001. He has assisted organizations with the creation of business plans, strategic plans, and governance policies. He has also served as a management and capital project consultant as well as assisting in the creation of Theatre Nova Scotia. Clients have included Ship’s Company Theatre, suddenlyLISTEN Music, Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre, Onelight Theatre, 2b theatre company, Mulgrave Road Theatre, Eastern Front Theatre, and Live Art Dance Society. He was one of the three founding consultants of Strategic Arts Management, a not-for-profit society with a mission to provide Nova Scotia’s artists and arts organizations top quality mentoring, management and administrative resources at affordable, subsidized rates. He now serves as that organization’s Director of Internal Operations.
Moreover, in 2009 he began Valley Summer Theatre, a professional theatre company based in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
