'I want the community to be part of Pitlochry festival theatre'
Alan Cumming is best known for TV shows like the Traitors US, The Good Wife or Schmigadoon.
But it was another show entirely which brought actor Alan Cumming back to his roots in Highland Perthshire, to begin a brand new chapter in his life - running Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
"I was filming an episode of Channel 4's All Aboard! Scotland's Poshest Trains, and we came to the theatre and spoke to Elizabeth Newman about the work they were doing and afterwards, she asked if I'd ever thought about running a theatre," he recalls.
In 2024, filming for the Traitors and two film projects meant even more time in Scotland so when Elizabeth Newman resigned in July, he quietly applied for the job.
Cumming says he now wants to not only create great theatre but make the theatre itself part of the whole community.
