Magenta Board Members Bios

Board Member Bios

Jaynie Roberts
President, Treasurer & Artistic Director

Dorinda Toner

Vice President & Events
Coordinator

Amy Baumgarten
Secretary

Chris Ponder
Member

Member
House Manager
Heidi Slagle

Member
Tony Provenzola

Member Amanda Goff

Member Bonnie Littleton

Member Dave Roberts

Member Annaliese Gove

Magenta Theater

Jaynie Roberts Bio

Born in Great Britain.
Educated in the UK, Asia and the US.
Graduated from Chapman University, California, BA degree in Communications (theater and film). Graduate courses at University of Houston.
Acted, directed, worked tech crew in university productions, community theater, churches. Productions include The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, Rumpelstiltskin, Pygmalion, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Marat Sade, Story Theatre, The Women.
Award-winning playwright. Plays written to date include: Oh, Baby, Baby!, Twist & Shout, Sealegs, The Bitter End, Once Upon a Palace Purple.
Theater arts instructor.
Favorite movies: You’ve Got Mail, Moonstruck.
Favorite Christmas Carol: O Holy Night.
Dislikes talking on the phone, driving across bridges.
Likes Thai, Indian and Japanese food, boating on the Columbia, spending lots of time with my family.

Former member, Slocum House Theatre Company Board of Directors, City of Vancouver's Cultural Commission.

Dorinda Toner Bio

Dorinda Toner has been an active member of Magenta Theater since 2005. She studied Performance Arts with a focus on Directing at University in Canada. She has worked in both community and Little Theater and is also a Canadian Recording Artist. Locally Dorinda has also directed for The New Blue Parrot Theater and is the Secretary on the VATA (Vancouver Area Theater Alliance) board. She looks forward to the future of Magenta Theater.

Amy Baumgarten Bio

Amy Baumgarten has been with Magenta Theater Company since its premier production in 2003 and has served on the board since 2004. She started in theater at a young age – participating in church drama programs and, eventually, the drama department of Hudson’s Bay High School. During her years with Magenta, she has held various tech positions, acted, directed and authored one-act pieces. Amy has worked as a paralegal with a Vancouver bankruptcy law firm since 2003. She is grateful for the artistic outlet, growth opportunities and friendships that Magenta offers.

Chris Ponder Bio

Chris Ponder has been active with Magenta Theater since the fall of 2008 working mostly behind the scenes. He made his acting debut in Magenta’s version of A Mid Summer Night’s Dream. By profession he is an electronics design engineer but has found Magenta Theater to be a great creative outlet. He loves the sense of community, working with people of all ages and the family friendly atmosphere. Chris is married and has two daughters. His wife, who loves making props, and one of his daughters, has been involved in several of Magenta’s plays too.

Heidi Slagle Bio

Heidi Slagle is a nanny by day, but theater fanatic by night. She came to Magenta in 2005 to audition for the one acts production. She was not cast but that didn't stop her from diving head-first into helping the company on the technical side. Heidi quickly demonstrated her deftness with painting, and has worked in practically all areas of the company to date. Her directing debut (with Magenta) is with The Wind in the Willows in July 2009. Heidi shares her love of theater with her husband, Martin, and her daughter Kelsie. A couple of crazy cats round out their family.

Tony Provenzola Bio

Tony Provenzola grew up in Detroit, Michigan, where he, his cousins, and friends made movies as kids. As an adult, he has been involved in the drama and music programs at his church, and had several roles in his children's high school plays. Tony and his wife, Amy, have 2 children, both married, making him an empty-nester with the time to devote to his love of drama. He has been an active member of Magenta Theater since 2008, working in plays and improv.

Tony enjoys the relationships, the opportunity to work with people of different ages, and being a part of the Magenta family.

Amanda Goff Bio

Amanda Goff started theater and dance at a young age and has been going strong ever since with involvement in community theater, school productions and church drama. In 2006 Amanda graduated from Metropolitan State College of Denver with a BA in Broadcast Communications and a minor in Theater. While living in Colorado, she was the artistic director of the youth drama team (All The King’s Fools) for seven years and was very involved with the adult drama and worship team at her church. Amanda still has a large passion to work with youth and young adults as a teacher and director. This is what initially brought her to Magenta Theater in 2007, where she has taught a few workshops. “I am very grateful for the creative outlet Magenta offers. I value the standards and vision Magenta has as a family friendly theater in the community”.

Bonnie Littleton Bio

Bonnie Littleton wandered into a Magenta audition in 2007 and stayed. She started performing in musical theater at age 16, and has sung leading roles, chorus, and even been a pit-singer for various professional and/or nonprofessional musical theater companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. After a twenty year hiatus to raise her two sons (Tony,31 and David,25), she re-entered theater, re-studied acting, and began performing in non-musical theater as well.

Bonnie and husband/ musician Bob live in the mountains above Camas, where Bob builds acoustic and steel guitars. He is a pedal steel guitar player who performs regularly in the Portland area. Bonnie is a Learning Disability Specialist with an office in Camas where she teaches reading, specializing in teaching dyslexic students.

Bonnie looks forward to performing in more Magenta productions as well as serving on the board. She enjoys working with such loving, warm, and talented people.

Dave Roberts Bio

Dave has been involved with theater since he was in grade school. After a short break for college, he returned to the theater and eventually started his own theater company in 2004. After 3 years the venue closed and decided producing was not his passion and pursued acting opportunities with Magenta Theater. He has acted in 8 Magenta productions and directed the most recent "Wait Until Dark" for the company. He continues to want to act and help Magenta theater grow. He currently runs the website and helps with the online ticketing for Magenta.

Annaliese Bio

Annaliese has been involved with theater as long as she can remember. Her passion for performing has taken many forms over the years beginning as a student in a theater school in her elementary and jr. high years, then high school productions, traveling in college throughout the Western United States, including Alaska and Hawaii, with a 6 member troupe, directing and performing in skits and plays for church and summer camps, extra work in Hollywood for television shows, tour guide at Disneyland, as well as community theater in Montana, Arizona, California and Washington. She has been involved with Magenta since August of 2005, in a variety of areas including acting, costuming, hair and makeup, and as a teacher for both Magenta Academy and summer camps. She is currently the company historian. When not at the theater, Annaliese is most likely homeschooling 3 of her children, texting messages to her fourth in college, or traveling with her amazing husband.