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David Bednar was the general manager of the Canadian National Exhibition Association, which runs an annual fair called the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE). He retired in May 2015. His successor is Virginia Ludy, the first female to be General Manager of the CNE. Born in Texas, Bednar was educated in theatre and business at Bishop's University in Quebec, initially working with summer theatre programs, such as Festival Lennoxville, the Canadian Mime Theatre and, later, Shaw Festival. He Joined the theatre production company Livent in 1989, before it was spun off into its own operation. He managed the Toronto venues, Pantages Theatre and North York Performing Arts Centre, before managing the Ford Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. Bednar was chairman of the Yonge Street Business and Residents Association during the initial planning of Yonge-Dundas Square, a significant redevelopment to Toronto's downtown. Bednar was hired by the Canadian National Exhibition Association following a decade of financial difficulty for the fair. He made a variety of operational and programming changes over the years. Notably, he repositioned the fair's focuses as technology supplanted earlier attractions. He became a Canadian citizen in 2000, at a ceremony in the Automotive Building, during the company's fair. ==Early life and career== Bednar was raised in Dallas, Texas. His father was a petroleum engineer. Bednar attended the State Fair of Texas while growing up. He moved to Quebec in 1970, to major in theatre and minor in business at Bishop's University.〔〔 He remained in Canada, married, and became a landed immigrant.〔 He worked at the Quebec City Summer Stock Theatre and Festival Lennoxville, and repaired telephones for Bell Canada. He became general manager of Canadian Mime Theatre in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Later Bednar became director of operations for the Shaw Festival.〔 With four young children to support, he passed on investing in the board game Trivial Pursuit (1982).〔 Bednar joined the theatre production company Live Entertainment Corporation of Canada, Inc. (Livent) in 1989,〔 while it was still a division of motion picture exhibitor Cineplex Odeon. Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb purchased the division from their employers in December 1989, as Cineplex looked to offload assets. Originally the assistant general manager of The Pantages Theatre, he became its general manager. In 1993, he moved to North York Performing Arts Centre to prepare it for the stage revival of the musical ''Show Boat''.〔 Livent used Toronto as the test site for the original Broadway production of ''Ragtime''; it made it world premiere at North York Centre in 1996, and Bednar was involved in production.〔 As of 1997, Bednar was general manager of The Pantages Theatre. and general manager of theatre for its parent company, Livent.〔; this article mistakenly says Bednar was hired by Exhibition Place, this was corrected in 〕 From 1997 to 1998,〔 near the end of his time with the company, he spent a year in New York City preparing the Ford Center for the Performing Arts for its opening and that of ''Ragtime''; he had worked on the production previously in Toronto.〔〔 He was scheduled to oversee the remake of Chicago's Oriental Theatre into the Ford Center for the Performing Arts Oriental Theatre.〔 Bednar was president of the Yonge Street Business and Residents Association as of 1996, when the City of Toronto approved a public square at Yonge and Dundas, later known as Yonge-Dundas Square. It was part of a larger Yonge Street Regeneration Program. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Bednar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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