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Career
Initially Faire was a producer with CBC Television, where she created and produced variety entertainment programs such as The Joyce Davidson Show, Video Hits, and Comics!. In 1997, she founded and operated her own private production firm, Sandra Faire & Associates, which produced programming primarily for CTV and The Comedy Network.
The company's productions include Comedy Now!, Comedy Inc., The Holmes Show and So You Think You Can Dance Canada, as well as television specials for musicians such as k.d. lang, Rita MacNeil, Bryan Adams, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Corey Hart, The Rankin Family, Amanda Marshall and Anne Murray. The company also produced the feature film My Own Private Oshawa.
In 2008, she received an honorary doctor of laws from York University. In 2012, she was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for culture and the arts.
Personal life
Faire was married to Ivan Fecan, an executive with CTV. The couple were involved in philanthropy, acting as patrons or sponsors of institutions such as the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Ballet of Canada, Soulpepper Theatre Company, the Hospital for Sick Children and York University, as well as creating the Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Dance Fund, a scholarship fund for dance students which has also provided prize money to non-winning finalists on So You Think You Can Dance Canada.
Faire died on February 27, 2019, in Toronto.
References
- ^ "Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan urge graduates to give to society". YFile, June 18, 2008.
- "A dance show as diverse as Canada". Toronto Star, August 23, 2010.
- "SFA Productions has its Own Private feature". Playback, October 5, 1998.
- "York U. set to bestow honorary degrees". Metroland Media Group, May 7, 2008.
- "Senate of Canada" 1st Session, 41st Parliament, volume 150, issue 85. June 5, 2012.
- Vlessing , Etan (March 1, 2019). "Sandra Faire, Pioneering Canadian TV Producer, Dies", The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 2, 2019.