[2] Silk also co-founded the Theatre New Brunswick’s Young Company (1974); served as President of the New Brunswick Filmmakers' Co-operative (1983–1985); co-chaired the New Brunswick Arts Board (1990–1994); co-founded the Atlantic University and Community Theatre Festival (1997); was a founding director of the NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival (2001); chaired the TNB Board of Governors (2007–2012); and chaired the TNB Foundation (2012–present).
At the age of seventeen she attended a weeklong workshop at Oxford with the British Drama League.
Silk's formal theatre education began at the New College of Speech and Drama, before graduating in 1969.
[2] Upon graduating, Silk began teaching drama at The Henrietta Barnett Grammar School in London.
Alongside Professor Russ Hunt and her colleague Michael Eagan, Silk was also instrumental in having STU's Black Box Theatre built in 1994.