Annie Inglis

Annie Inglis (1922 - 2010) was a Scottish drama teacher, known as Aberdeen's first lady of drama. She taught drama at Aberdeen's Northern College of Education. She founded the Attic Theatre and helped save the Aberdeen Arts Centre from closure in 1998. Early life Annie Henderson Inglis was born Annie Nicol in 1922 in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. She attended University of Glasgow, starting at age 16, where she studied English. Career She started her teaching in Lanarkshire primary schools and gave private lessons in speech and drama. As a child her mother had taken her to a speech and drama therapist which resulted in her lisp being cured and resulted in her lifelong passion for drama. She started working in theatre in the 1940s at Monklands Rep. Annie moved to Aberdeen in 1953, starting her working life there as a teacher of phonetics. She later became a drama lecturer at Aberdeen College of Education, which is also known as Northern College. Annie founded the Attic Theatre in Aberdeen in the late 1950s. Attic Theatre is an amateur group that mainly performed at Aberdeen Arts Centre and His Majesty's Theatre. Annie directed plays in the Aberdeen area and did drama workshops for local groups.