Iain Gillespie (Director and President).

Started  his career in mid 50's as Chief Electrician in the Winter Gardens and have over 50 years service in the entertainment business. Have worked 32 Edinburgh International Festivals with over 30 different Nationalities and with every premier Touring Company including the Royal National Theatre, R.S.C., Scottish Opera, Scottish Ballet, D'Oyly Carte plus many more. Worked with such luminaries as Placido Domingo, Rudolph Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn, Maggie Smith, Ian McKellern, Eli Wallach, Leslie Neilson, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry and almost every major Scottish, and most of English Variety acts.

Thoroughly enjoying being part of Bute Amateur Players and honoured to be President.

Alison Gollings Clark. (Executive Director)

Alison has graduated from both R.S.A.M.D.A. and Glasgow School of Art and continues with both passions of Art and Drama in Rothesay.   As an actress she has appeared with both Borderline and Wildcat Theatre Companies and her contemporaries comprise a "Who's Who" of Scottish Theatre. She has also appeared in the Pitlochry Festival Season and was a leading member of the acclaimed Joan Knight

 Liam Walsh: Vice President.

Mr. Dependable.- Liam is a Vice President who is not afraid of hard work. Whether it is handing out leaflets, prompting, making up C.D's for rehearsals, arranging our insurance or even providing words of sympathy when things are not quite going as well as we hope.
Liam is a much in demand Management Consultant and much of his work takes him abroad, however, as soon as he arrives back on Bute he is right into the middle of the action.
He is not only a writer of note, having one of his plays presented by the acclaimed Abbey Theatre of Dublin, but also lectures on many subjects.
Liam is keen rambler and knows more about Bute than many of the locals.

 Ursula Eames. Secretary.

Every organisation needs a good Secretary and we have got the best. Nothing is ever too much trouble for Ursula and, although she owns and runs The Alamein B.&B., she always seems to have time in her diary, not only for Bute Amateur Players, but for the W.R.I.
Ursula like Betty is a great dog lover and she has 3 lovely Shi-tzu who always give the committee a fantastic welcome when we hold our meetings in The Alamein.
Ursula was blessed with a new grand daughter over the festive season. Congratulations.
Last year, due to the fact that she was not "on stage" Ursula took charge of the Front of House activities e.g. Raffle and programme sales, as Betty (Treasurer) was acting as Mrs. Culfeathers in "The Steamie", Ursula (No mean singer) was also part of the "Off Stage" chorus for the "Pals" section in that production.

 Betty Norris-Smith.

Our Treasurer. Betty is one of those people who is an inspiration to others. When many retired members of our Community are quite happy to sit at home with their feet up, Betty claims that retirement gives her more time to take part in many of her interests.
As well as a School Governor and a member of The Players, Betty takes part in writers groups and is well known for her work in the W.R.I.
She is an animal lover, and can be seen regularly walking her dog "Snowy" along the Esplanade.
As our treasurer, Betty is incomparible. At every Committee Meeting, Betty is "Spot On" with her figures and, obviously, relishes her Office.

 Rosemary Lonie.

A veteran  and a stalwart of our club since it's founding and, along with Liam Walsh, was responsible for much of the script for the recent V.E. Day Celebration Anniversary in the Pavilion. She has appeared as an actress in most of our productions. Apart from "The Players", Rosemary's passions are the W.R.I and the Speakers Club.

 Ian Carmichael.

A very popular character in "The Players" and an extremely ardent member of The Speaker's Club.    Nobody can forget Ian's exit in "The Pipes, The Pipes", which was set in Edinburgh, with the totally made up line of "Well I'll just go down to the Black Bull in West Princes Street for a pint" leaving a stunned cast and a prompter practically tearing his hair out.