Marjorie Lillian Dence MBE (14 June 1901 – 23 August 1966) was a British actress and the first female theatre manager in Scotland, based in Perth.

Her parents were Annie Eleanor Searle and Ernest Martin Dence (d. 1937) who was a brass-founder and company director.

[2] Dence's management career began when her father decided to buy the theatre in Perth after Marjorie saw it advertised for £4,000 in The Stage.

Dence appointed the new theatre's company and in 1935 they staged their first play The Rose without a Thorn by Clifford Bax followed by others each week.

[8] The Dence sculpture was situated outside the Theatre's High Street entrance but was subject to vandalism whilst it was sited there.