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Boa hired as Festival's Director of Marketing
produces important plays and
approaches crucial and timely topics
in an honest manner.
While she has been in the Blyth
Festival audience at Memorial Hall
on and off for a quarter-century, Boa
said her favourite recent play at the
Festival was Our Beautiful Sons:
Remembering Matthew Dinning,
because of how rooted in its home
community it was.
"I liked that it was a Huron County
story and that Matthew's parents had
input," she said.
Furthermore, Boa said that she
feels Garratt has really tapped into
the Huron County audience. She's
particularly looking forward to the
2018 season and Wing Night at The
Boot, which she feels is destined to
be another great Huron County
story.
While Boa has been familiar with
the Festival for years, it was when
she worked in communications for
Blyth 14/19 that she really grew to
know and understand the Blyth
community. Working with the
organization, she met many of the
"major players" in the Blyth
community, which she feels was a
great precursor to now being with
the Festival.
Going forward, Boa said her job is
to fill Memorial Hall every night.
Garratt has programmed some
great plays, as the Festival has been
doing for years, so now it's up to her
to bring people to Blyth and into the
theatre every night of the summer.
A graduate of Toronto's Ryerson
University and Ryerson
Polytechnical Institute, Boa has
worked for a number of Huron
County news organizations over the
years, even spending some time with
the Sarnia Observer.
Locally, she has worked with
Blyth 14/19, the Ontario Travel
Divas, the Huron County Chef
League and the Huron Chamber of
Commerce, based in Goderich.
Her time with the Blyth Festival
begins on Dec. 11. She will have a
few weeks to work with McHenry
before he moves to Sudbury in the
new year.
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Festival, visit blythfestival.com.
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A fresh face
Heather Boa will begin her time with the Blyth Festival on
Dec. 11 as its new Director of Marketing, taking over for
John McHenry, who was in Blyth for four years but is now
the new Artistic Director at the Sudbury Theatre Company.
Boa has worked extensively in the worlds of journalism and
communications throughout Huron County for decades.
(Shawn Loughlin photo)
By Shawn Loughlin
The Citizen
Long-time Huron County resident
Heather Boa has been chosen as the
Blyth Festival's new Director of
Marketing, replacing the departing
John McHenry.
Boa brings to the organization
decades of work experience
throughout the county and a love of
the Festival that reaches back 25
years.
McHenry recently announced he
was leaving the Festival to take the
position of Artistic Director at the
Sudbury Theatre Company. He will
be staying on at the Blyth Festival,
where he has been since 2013, until
the end of the year.
Once it was clear McHenry would
be leaving Blyth, Boa said that
Artistic Director Gil Garratt and
General Manager Rachael King
invited her to coffee in Blyth. Boa
had just interviewed for a job in
Toronto she wasn't very keen to take,
so the Blyth Festival opportunity
came along at the perfect time.
For decades Boa has been making
contacts and establishing
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connections in Huron County. She
wasn't in a hurry to move to Toronto
and turn her back on all of that, not
to mention that Huron County is
home to many of her friends and
family.
"I came out of that meeting very
energized," Boa said.
When Garratt and King offered
Boa the job, she said she was
thrilled. Not only would she be able
to stay in Huron County, but she
would work for one of the
community's great organizations in
the Blyth Festival.
So much of what's going on in
Blyth, whether it be Blyth Cowbell
Brewing Company or Blyth 14/19,
she said, begins and ends with
discussion about the Blyth Festival.
Not only is it clear that the Festival
is one of the major economic drivers
in Huron County, she said, but it's a
jewel in the crown of Canadian
theatre.
"I've always said this is my
favourite theatre," Boa said, adding
that she has been attending and
writing about theatres across the
province for over 25 years.
The Festival, she said, always
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