Chris Ballance
Chris Ballance is a playwright and Scottish Green Party politician, a former Member of the Scottish Parliament for the South of Scotland region.Biography
Born in Worcester, England, he owned and managed a second-hand bookshop in Wigtown, won a Scotsman Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1990, and wrote sketches for Radio Scotland.Political career
He was elected to the Scottish Parliament in 2003. He held a seat on the Parliament's Enterprise and Culture Committee and was the Green's Parliamentary business manager and speaker on nuclear issues, culture and peace. He stood again in the 2007 election but was not re-elected.
In August 2007 he was appointed to the Scottish Broadcasting Commission established by the Scottish Executive.
Ballance stood as a Green candidate in the Aird and Loch Ness ward for the 2017 Highland Council election.He is a member of the Society of Friends.Plays
