Jacqueline Gourlay Grant

Hailing from Scotland, Jacqueline Gourlay Grant studied voice, cello and piano at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland ( formerly the RSAMD ) and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In Hong Kong, she is a director, actress and singer, performing leading roles in theatrical productions and musicals. Her credits include Mrs. Birling in An Inspector Calls ( The Hong Kong Players ), Mama Rose in Gypsy ( The Hong Kong Singers ), the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz ( AFTEC ), Felicity Lloyd in Secret Theatre Code 2024 at Tai Kwun and a United Nations Lawyer in Horizontal Collaboration for Fire Exit/Traverse Theatre at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. For Sweet and Sour Productions, her roles include Fay in Iron ( winning the HKELD award for Best Actress ), Florence Foster Jenkins in Glorious, Witch 1 and the Porter in Shakespeare's Macbeth, the Three Ghosts in A Christmas Carol, Viola Wilde and Veronica Carmichael in Distressed Asset ( world premiere ) and she performed as many as eleven characters in the play Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. For CCOHK she has appeared as the Queen Bee in the award-winning Bug Symphony, as a storyteller in Howard Blake's The Bear and as food critic Mrs Moore in the 2024 world premiere of Shark Symphony. Her television credits include Mrs. Thomason in A Taiwanese Tale of Two Cities for Netflix. Jacqueline Gourlay Grant's credits as director and/or music director include I Love You You're Perfect Now Change ( The Hong Kong Singers ) which won the HKELD award for best musical, Lions, Typhoons and Judy, Oh My! ( Golden Voice Entertainment/Sweet and Sour Productions ) and Charlie Brown ( American Community Theatre ). Jacqueline co-founded the ESF Primary School Concert Series with 800 young choristers performing in the Queen Elizabeth Stadium and has conducted The Choir of A Thousand Voices at the Hong Kong World Rugby Sevens.

Source: City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong
Methodist International Church