David Cheoros

David is executive director of Metro Cinema, which programs an incredible array of contemporary and classic films at Edmonton's historic Garneau Theatre. With more than 400 different films screened each year, and a smattering of live music, theatre, lectures and community gatherings besides, there's something there you're sure to find fun.

He also writes and direct plays - often about historical subjects - with MAA & PAA Theatre, a company he co-founded with his wife, archivist Karen Simonson. They're also fun.

He also teaches at Grant MacEwan's Arts and Cultural Management Program, where he struggles to make Human Resource Management fun.

David takes on the occasional fun side project. Most recently, he got to coordinate a programming plan for an Edmonton bid to host EXPO in 2017.

A couple of David's plays have been published in the collection Her Voice, Her Century, by Brindle and Glass. In 2013, he won the Alberta Literary Award for new play for Invisible Child, the story of Leilani Muir's fight to gain compensation from the Alberta government for forced sterilization and confinement.