Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Kris Bryce
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Kris Bryce joined Pitlochry Festival Theatre as Executive Director in 2016 and was appointed chief executive in 2018. In this role, Kris is the senior officer accountable for the leadership and management of the business.
Leading Scotland’s largest producing theatre and the UK’s most northerly major theatre producer, Kris operated one of the region’s largest employers coming into the pandemic. Under the executive leadership of Kris and Elizabeth Newman, Artistic Newman, Pitlochry Festival Theatre has repositioned itself as a producing powerhouse.
During the pandemic, the Theatre launched online programmes reaching over 5m people, collaborated with the BBC to make new plays, built new venues throughout its 11 acres, and produced seasons of outdoor work offering 18 different titles and productions and hundreds of individual performances. Kris also advanced the planned £20m creative and capital redevelopment of the organisation. When the Theatre reopens its doors, it will welcome audiences into extended and upgraded front of house spaces as well as a new second performance space.
Before taking up his current role, Kris was Head of Operations at Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre from 2011. Previous to this, he held management positions in theatres and multi-art form venues across the country. Kris spent ten years working with arts organisations and festivals in Vancouver including six years in a sector link role at Ticketmaster Canada before relocating to the UK in September 2004.
Kris is currently a board member of UK Theatre, the country’s leading theatre and performing arts membership body, and supports the workforce consortium as the member representative from Scotland. From 2017 to 2021, Kris was also on the Board of Stellar Quines, Scotland’s touring theatre company inspiring excellence in women and girls. Kris has an MBA with a focus in Creative Industries and has a professional interest in strategic management and the development of future workforces, including mentoring and supporting future arts leaders.