Following an MA degree from Glasgow University and a post graduate qualification from East 15 Acting School, Patricia emigrated to Australia where she spent three years as an Arts Centre Director in Perth, Western Australia. Returning to Glasgow she worked at Mayfest, Glasgow’s International Festival before heading to Paris to work in international theatre promotions.

In the UK Patricia has had an eclectic career in arts management including as Head of Culture in Hammersmith and Fulham Council, Arts Council England’s Director of External Relations and Communications in the North East of England, followed by National Director for Strategic Partnerships and the National Director of Planning and Performance Management. Patricia has also worked as Executive Producer at the North East England National Dance Agency, Dance City, in Newcastle, and as Director of Creative Arts at Cheltenham Ladies’ College. She has worked extensively as a freelance producer, business and strategy advisor and consultant for a range of diverse artists and organisations across both cultural and social sectors.

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Jemima trained at Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh and on a Scottish Arts Council Directors Bursary with The Royal Lyceum Theatre and Stellar Quines Theatre Company.

In April 2024 she took up post as Artistic Director of the Tron Theatre in Glasgow. She has also served as Artistic Director & CEO of A Play, a Pie and a Pint, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Stellar Quines Theatre Company, and Artistic Director of Dundee Rep.

She has won and been nominated for a number of awards and has directed over 40 professional productions. Her recent credits include The Sherriff of Kalamaki, SCOTS (Ed Fringe, 54 Below NYC), The Great Replacement and Man’s Best Friend for A Play, a Pie and a Pint. Cinderella and All My Sons for Dundee Rep. Maggie May for Leeds Playhouse, Leicester Curve & Queens Hornchurch, and numerous episodes of River City for BBC Studios. She has also directed work for The Citizens Theatre, The National Theatre of Scotland, The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Dundee Rep, Stellar Quines Theatre Company, Imaginate, Borderline Theatre Company, Grid Iron Theatre Company, The Traverse and Paines Plough.

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Roberta Doyle is a senior cultural industry professional with in-depth experience of strategic management and organisational business and corporate planning. She has held director-level roles in external and public affairs, marketing, communications, digital, learning and fundraising within Scotland’s largest cultural organisations. These include the post of Director of External Affairs with the National Theatre of Scotland, the same role for Scottish Opera, the post of Director of Public Affairs with the National Galleries of Scotland and as Director of Marketing with Scottish Ballet.

She began her career, after graduating in Business Administration from the University of Strathclyde, at the Citizens’ Theatre in Glasgow. Roberta is a board member of Scottish Opera and also serves on the boards of two major Scottish cultural grant-giving organisations – the Dewar Arts Awards and the William Syson Foundation.

Roberta is a member of the 8-strong Expert Advisory Panel for the UK City of Culture 2025 and serves as its Scotland National Representative. She has acted as a consultant on strategic marketing, communications, branding and public affairs to many European arts organisations and lectures and gives papers and presentations widely in the UK and abroad on strategic issues relating to cultural industry management and policy and performing and visual arts audiences.

Roberta is a Justice of the Peace in the Sheriffdom of Glasgow and Strathkelvin, sitting at Glasgow Sheriff Court.

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Julie Chambers has worked in various finance roles ranging from accounting to process improvements and systems implementations in small and medium-sized companies and large multi-national organisations, heading up teams in the UK and India.

Now busy with several voluntary-sector roles including Finance Convenor for Friends of Glasgow Museums and guiding at the Burrell Collection.

Julie speaks German and French, loves European travel and meeting friends for good food and wine, going to the theatre, cinema and concerts.

Katie joined the Board of the Tron in December 2023. She practised as an employment lawyer in Glasgow for around fifteen years before pivoting from the law to set up an HR consultancy and operate holiday cottages in the Scottish Borders, where she now lives. She is also a volunteer counsellor with Childline.

Robert Softley Gale is the Artistic Director of Birds of Paradise Theatre Company, Scotland’s touring company that promotes the work of disabled artists and stages excellent and engaging stories of disabled people. His first production for the company – ‘Wendy Hoose’ – is a critically acclaimed sex comedy.

Robert is an award-winning and recognised writer, director and actor and is an established figure in the Scottish arts scene, with over twenty years of experience. Robert’s artistic practice includes writing and directing ‘My Left/Right Foot’ alongside the National Theatre of Scotland which won a Fringe First and Herald Angel at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe and toured to Japan.

His award-winning writing debut and solo performance – ‘If These Spasms Could Speak’ was a hit of the 2013 Fringe and toured internationally to countries including Brazil and India. For BBC America he performed in ‘CripTales’, receiving two BAFTA nominations.

Sunita (she/they) holds a BA (Hons) in Stage Management and Theatre Production from QMUC in Edinburgh. Following graduation, she began their career with Edinburgh-based companies such as Grid Iron and Stellar Quines. Working and touring with those organisations gave Sunita in-depth knowledge of small and mid-scale touring in Scotland. The Tron was a regular stop on that journey.

Sunita made a more permanent move to Glasgow in 2006 aided by the beginnings of the National Theatre of Scotland. They worked across multiple main-scale productions at NTS and, during their time there, moved from Deputy Stage Management to Company Stage Management.

In 2010 Sunita relocated to London, continuing to work as a Company Stage Manager and Company Manager, in and for organisations such as The Royal Court Theatre, The Donmar Warehouse, Kenny Wax, Jamie Lloyd Productions and Manchester International Festival.

Post-pandemic, Sunita returned to Company Management and subsequently elected to shift the focus of their work into Organisational Change within the culture sector. She also began a year at LAMDA (The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) teaching Stage Management to degree level, under the leadership of Director/Artistic Director Sarah Frankcom.

Sunita has most recently moved into theatre and production administration. As part of this move, they spent 2022 as PA to the Artistic Director of The Royal Court in London, Vicky Featherstone. This enabled close access to Board and Senior Management practice and the internal functions within a building-based producing theatre organisation. She is currently interim Production Office and Design Studio Manager at the National Theatre in London.
Sunita is a Board Member of Open Door, an organisation that helps talented young people who do not have the financial support or resources to gain a place at one of the UK’s leading drama schools. https://www.opendoor.org.uk.

Sunita has particular interest in developing training that allows backstage practitioners to identify as Artists in their own right, both in formal training and in professional practice.

Sunita has Indian/Latinx origins. She lives mainly in London but visits Glasgow very regularly and continues to own an apartment in the Merchant City.

Gillian is a brand marketing and sponsorship consultant with over fifteen years’ experience in the music, arts and entertainment industry. She’s also a screenwriter working predominantly in TV with a number of projects in development with major broadcasters.

As the former MD of leading marketing agency Material, Gillian worked on some of the biggest events in Scotland, including T in the Park where she led the PR and sponsorship campaign for the client Tennent’s Lager for over a decade; as well as leading the launch of The Hydro and subsequent partnership and experiential strategy for client SSE.

Specialising in the arts, Gillian also created and delivered the arts sponsorship strategy for Bank of Scotland working with partners including National Galleries of Scotland, EIF, National Theatre of Scotland, the Edinburgh Fringe and Imaginate while creating and delivering PR campaigns for clients including BAFTA Scotland, National Galleries of Scotland, T on the Fringe, Connect Music Festival, The Gaelic Arts Agency, New Territories and the National Review of Live Art.

When she is not writing Gillian continues to work as a freelance consultant, working with clients including DF Concerts, V&A Dundee; BAFTA Scotland and global festival platform Afro Nation.

In addition to the Tron, Gillian is also the Chair of the Board of Vanishing Point Theatre Company.

Johnny McKnight is an award-winning writer, director, educator, dramaturg and performer. He was Co-Artistic Director of Random Accomplice Theatre Company for 20 years, originating and creating work for a variety of venues through the UK and abroad.

His writing work includes the accoladed Wendy Hoose, The Joke and The Incredible Adventures of See Thru Sam. He has been described as the ‘vanguard of post-modernist panto’, with over 30 productions and a slew of nominations for these works.

In the last few years Johnny has transitioned into television, with credits including Queen of the New Year, Holby City and River City (with 45+ episodes, for which his 20th anniversary special won the 2023 Royal Television Award Scotland for Best Drama).

Recent credits include: director of Thrown (Edinburgh International Festival/National Theatre of Scotland); book writer of 101 Dalmatians: The Musical(Regent’s Park/UK Tour) and Rubble (Scottish Opera). He is currently working on two main-stage musicals for National Theatre of Scotland, two feature films and a sitcom pilot.

Johnny has served as a board member for a variety of organisations including Macrobert Arts Centre, Glasgay!, Wayward Productions and Glas(s) Performance. He has served as a board member for the Tron Theatre since 2017.

Ross is a partner with Addleshaw Goddard LLP Commercial Group, focussing on intellectual property, information technology and general commercial matters.

Ross has over 20 years of experience advising upon these areas for clients in the public and private sectors and is recognised by Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners for Intellectual Property and Information Technology matters. He is also recognised by IAM Patent 1000, World Trade Mark Review and Managing IP:IP Stars.

He spent time on secondment to global a pharmaceutical company and sat for several years on the Advisory Board of the Scottish Lifesciences Association.

Geoff Nolan is the Principal Teacher for Drama at Holyrood Secondary in Glasgow, one of the UK’s largest state comprehensive secondary schools.

Geoff is a graduate of London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where he earned his PGDE (Professional Graduate Diploma in Education), and also of the University of Glasgow, where he studied Film, TV and Theatre.

In his 26-year career in education, Geoff has taught drama to thousands of pupils at many schools across Glasgow, including St Mungo’s Academy, Castlemilk High, where he was Acting Head of Department, and St Thomas Aquinas, where he was Faculty Head. He has also held the position of Acting Depute Head Teacher at Holyrood Secondary.

In 2024, he helped revive the disbanded Glasgow Schools’ Youth Theatre for pupils across the city, having previously directed many of their productions, including their devised Millennium performance at Tramway.

For 13 years, Geoff coordinated Glasgow City Council’s Tramway Saturday Drama classes for children aged 6-18 and has driven engagement in the Shakespeare for Schools Festival since 2007.

Geoff has staged many extra-curricular school productions and regularly promotes engagement in theatre beyond school by leading local, national, and international theatre study trips. Many of his pupils have gone on to successful careers in stage and screen and drama education.

In his spare time, Geoff is an active participant, on stage and off, with Giffnock Theatre Players. Among his stage roles are Banquo in Macbeth, Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night, Alan Turing in Breaking the Code, Tony Wendice in Dial M for Murder and John Morrison in Men Should Weep.

Nicola is an architect currently working as Assistant Design Manager in the University of Edinburgh Estates Department. Her role includes promoting Inclusive Design principles, with a special interest in creatively adapting historic buildings to improve accessibility.

In her previous role at Page\Park Architects, Nicola led various performing arts projects including the redevelopment of Eden Court Theatre in Inverness, Scottish Opera’s Theatre Royal in Glasgow, Leeds Playhouse and the new foyers for Birmingham’s Symphony Hall.

She has recently contributed to the new edition of Theatre Buildings: A Design Guide by the Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABTT) (Editor) and Margaret Shewring (Editor).

Nicola is a Friend of the Theatres Trust and sits on the Board of WASPS, Scotland’s largest provider of workspaces for artists and creative industries, reflecting her personal interests in both contemporary art and the performing arts.