Gill Gilmour

Gill Gilmour Gill joined Theatre Guild in 2005 securing the role of Ermengard in our September production of Hello, Dolly!. More recently she opened the show for our production of Kiss Me Kate as Hattie, singing that most famous of show tunes "Another Op'nin', Another Show"! Gill's first acting role in amateur dramatics was Miss Hannigan from a scene in Annie as part of a cabaret concert. Then she played the part of Katie Brown in Gryffe High's production of Calamity Jane in November 2004. Coincidently, Suzanne Lowe was in the audience of that school show and she played Katie Brown in The Guild's 1997 production of Calamity Jane! Suzanne was so impressed that she agreed with Cammy to approach Gill and ask her to audition for Theatre Guild ... and the rest is history! Gill joined Starlight Youth Music Theatre at 16 and has just completed a Higher course in Drama at Gryffe High School. She has recently secured a place at Glasgow Caledonian University to study Criminology - she should have a good career in Taggart, then! Her busy life seems to revolve around music ... and chips! She played Sax in the school band and is being taught guitar by her boyfriend. Her favourite band of the moment is Franz Ferdinand but she believes that there is a time and a place for EVERY kind of music! She is a Guider at her local Brownie unit and her 'spare time' is spent working in Paul's Chippy (arguably the best chip shop in the world!). Asked for a funny theatre story, Gill said "On the first night of "Calamity Jane" we were just at the start of the second act in Calamity's cabin - having just finished "A Woman's Touch" - when suddenly the audience started to laugh. This made Calam and myself really worried because we didn't know why the audience were laughing at a bit they weren't supposed to. We found out in our next costume change that one of the walls behind us had fallen down mid-conversation!!! But being the professionals that we are (ie we were so busy trying to remember our lines that we were oblivious to what was going on) we carried on!!" (Gill's secret: She is a huge fan of 5-a-side football (watching and playing) and still 'works her magic' on the pitch when she gets a chance!)