{"id":215154,"date":"2026-04-01T22:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215154\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T22:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:23:12","slug":"florida-theatre-board-announces-new-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215154\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Theatre board announces new members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h928620-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">The Florida Theatre Performing Arts Center Inc. board of directors elected Kaci Barnes and Lori Smith as new voting members to serve three-year terms, the board announced April 1.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kaci Barnes\" class=\"media-element file-default fr-fic fr-dii\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Kaci_Barnes_t850.jpg\" title=\"Kaci Barnes\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kaci Barnes<\/p>\n<p id=\"h928620-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">Barnes is a client and community relations specialist at PNC Bank. She is on the board of directors for Downtown Vision Inc. and held previous roles at Baptist Health, Feeding Northeast Florida and VyStar Credit Union.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h928620-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">She is a graduate of the University of South Carolina with a bachelor\u2019s degree in exercise science and psychology.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lori Smith\" class=\"media-element file-default fr-fic fr-dii\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Lori_Smith_t850.jpg\" title=\"Lori Smith\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lori Smith<\/p>\n<p id=\"h928620-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">Smith is chief human resources officer at Community First Credit Union. She is a member of the Leadership Jacksonville class of 2017 and served for five years on the board of the United Way of Northeast Florida.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h928620-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">Barnes is a graduate of the University of North Carolina with a bachelor\u2019s degree in business\/corporate communications.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h928620-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">In addition, board member Laura Phillips Edgecombe now is secretary, the board announced. She is vice president of urban systems at Downtown Vision Inc.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Theatre Performing Arts Center Inc. board of directors elected Kaci Barnes and Lori Smith as new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-215154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}