Board Members

Sandy Stronach, Festival Director -

E-mail: sandy@stronach.org.uk

Jim McDonald, Chairman -

Charles Barron - Charles Barron has been a teacher (at Inverurie Academy), a lecturer (at Jordanhill and Aberdeen Colleges of Education), an artistic director (for the Haddo Arts Trust) and is now a fulltime playwright, depending for his meagre livelihood on commissions from such diverse sources as Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Theatre Workshop, Dragon Theatre of Glasgow, the Forestry Commission, the Inverurie Festival, Fraserburgh Junior Arts Society and the Forfar Dramatic Society. About one third of his plays are in Doric; one of them, Fooshion, won the first Mobil Oil Scottish Playwright’s award. Three of his plays are now on the Higher Drama syllabus at several Scottish schools.

Website: www.charlesbarron.co.uk
E-mail: charles@charlesbarron.co.uk

Lady Barbara Grant -

Phyllis Goodal

Lorna Alexander - Lorna is a retired Primary School head teacher and is keen to encourage enthusiasm in the younger generation for the language of North East Scotland. She sings songs, recites poetry, writes and tells stories - all in the Doric tounge. Born in the Garioch, she lived there for the first part of her life, before she married and went to live in Glenkindie.

Email: alexanders@glenkindie.fsworld.co.uk

Robbie Shepherd -

Stuart Aitken -

Treasurer

Jake Simpson - Ma faither hid a sma ferm aside Echt far I wis brocht up. We used ti visit Tam Reid fin I wis a bairn in' we aye hid tae "dee a turn".A've aye hid a great interest in oor Doric an' a try tae keep it alive as muckle as a can.

Pam Wheatley -