Saskatchewan
Provincial Director: Darlene Briere – SDA
Board & Regional Directors: Saskatchewan Drama Association Sub-Committee Darlene is the Executive Director of the Saskatchewan Drama Association beginning this part of her career in November 2003. Darlene received her Bachelor of Education from the University of Regina in l989 and her Master of Education in 1999. As well, she has received an Arts Administration Certificate form the Banff Centre School for Management in February 1994. Darlene began her teaching career with Regina Public Schools.
She then moved on to teach in the Arts Education, Faculty of Education, University of Regina where she taught arts education, drama education, and several other pre-service teacher education classes. She supervised hundreds of teacher pre-interns and interns; the part of her job she loved the most. Besides working at Sask Drama, Darlene’s many accomplishments include: coordinated the “Celebrating Arts Education” event for several years at the Saskatchewan Legislative Building in the early 2000’s, coordinated and edited “Continuing Studies in the Arts” for the SSEA, provincial team leader for Art FX and Vic Cicansky units of study and workshops in Arts Education, and the publisher/editor for SDA’s Magazine of Student Written Plays “My Lines”.
Darlene and her husband Ray, have three grown and married children, Bryan, Lyndsay,and Jerrod and eight fantastic grandchildren – Annabel, Adalyn, Malia, Harrison, Charlotte, Linnea, Gabrielle, and Camille.