Malcolm McKee
Malcolm is an actor, writer, director and composer who is well known to Radio 4 audiences for his long-running role as Graham Ryder in The Archers. As a composer, Malcolm’s theatre work includes scores for : The madness of George III (Apollo); When We Are Married (Garrick, Olivier Award nomination for Best Revival); The Shakespeare Revue (RSC, Vaudeville, Off-Broadway); Travels with My Aunt (Menier Chocolate Factory); The History Boys (West Yorkshire Playhouse); While the Sun Shines (Theatre Royal Bath); Hay Fever (Minneapolis); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Leicester Haymarket); The Tempest and The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Wolsey, Ipswich); Vanity Fair (Bristol Old Vic); plus national tours of Single Spies, The Lady in the Van, Blue/Orange and Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime. He has also written the book, music and lyrics for: The Good Companions (Bristol Old Vic); The Wild Party and Hard Times (Tobacco Factory).
For BBC Radio, Malcolm has composed scores for more than fifty dramas including The Pickwick Papers, Barnaby Rudge, The Old Curiosity Shop, Time and the Conways, Tom and Viv, Still Life, Some Tame Gazelle, The Carlingford Chronicles, The Cry of the Bittern, In Singapore, The Schoolmistress, The Rivals and The Country Wife starring Sir Michael Hordern. Also for the BBC, Malcolm has written sixteen scripts for Radios 3 and 4, including adaptations of The Comedy of Errors, Grand Hotel, Oh What A Lovely War, Five Children and It, The Story of the Amulet, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, The Wild Party and Coward’s Tonight at 8.30. He has been a script writer and music arranger on the Radio 2 series Friday Night Is Music Night and Carols and Brass.
Theatre credits as writer/director include: The Shakespeare Revue (RSC, West End, Off-Broadway); Basil Brush: Unleashed (Edinburgh Festival); An Actor’s Life For Me and Crackers & Spice (Bristol Old Vic); Masterpieces (Birmingham Rep); A Talent to Amuse (Royal Academy of Music); Noël & Gertie (Wolsey, Ipswich); Tomfoolery (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Virtual Coward (Chichester Festival); Love etc (Bucharest); The Masque of Summer (Florence); Laughed Out of Court (Royal Courts of Justice); Rags to Riches (Hampton Court Palace); Shakespeare in Season (Kew Gardens); The Land of Lost Content (King’s Concert Hall, London); A Viennese Christmas Gala (British Philharmonic Concert Orchestra); New Year’s Eve Gala (Buxton Opera House); The Sound of Rodgers & Hammerstein and Viennese Strauss Gala (Wolverhampton Grand); Wicked Women (UK Tour); The Kit-Kat Club (Bloomsbury Ballroom); Simply Sondheim (RAC Club); The Cocktail Hour (Tate Britain) and Theatrical Digs (Yvonne Arnaud) both starring Penelope Keith; and – for HRH The Prince of Wales – A Marvellous Party starring Patricia Routledge and Patrick Stewart (Highgrove and St James’s Palace).
Plays authored
- An Actor’s Life for Me
- All at Sea with Noël Coward
- Anything Goes
- Are We Keeping You Up?
- As the Actress Said to the Bishop
- Belmont
- The Best of British
- The Best Will in the World
- Brush Up Your Shakespeare
- By Royal Command
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- End of Term
- I Should Cocoa!
- If Music and Sweet Poetry Agree
- Laughed Out of Court
- The Shakespeare Revue
- A Talent to Amuse
- Theatrical Digs
- Wicked Women
- You Can Not Be Serious!
Past productions
- Deviser / Music Arranger / Musical Director, Theatrical Digs, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Company
- Ensemble Company / Musical Director / Writer & Director, An Actor’s Life for Me, London Revue Company
- Ensemble Company / Musical Director / Writer & Director, The Best of British, Alister Cameron for Richmond Productions and London Revue Company
- Ensemble Company / Musical Director / Writer & Director, An Actor’s Life for Me, Shakespeare Revue Company
- Deviser / Music Arranger, A Talent to Amuse, Royal Academy of Music
- Ensemble Company / Writer & Director, By Royal Command, London Revue Comany
- Ensemble Company / Music Arranger / Musical Director & Pianist / Writer & Director, And Clive Hayward, Shakespeare Revue Company
- Deviser & Performer / MD / Composer / Arranger, Wicked Women
- Deviser & Director / Musical Director & Composer, As the Actress Said to the Bishop, Stars of The Archers & the West End
- Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company / Musical Director, Silver Linings, Shakespeare Revue Company
- Ensemble Company / Music Arranger / Musical Director / Writer, You Can Not Be Serious!, London Revue Comany
- Composer, Blue/Orange, ATG
- Composer / Musical Director / Harpsichord, The Madness of George III, Theatre Royal Bath Productions
- Writer & Director, Laughed Out of Court, Private Drama
- Ensemble Company / Writer & Director, Anything Goes, Private Drama
- Musical Director & Arranger, The History Boys, Theatre Royal Bath Productions and West Yorkshire Playhouse
- Musical Director / Writer & Director, An Actor’s Life for Me, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
- Musical Director / Writer & Director, The Best of British, by Malcolm McKee, Private Drama
- Musical Director & Arranger / Writer & Director, An Actor’s Life for Me, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
- Musical Director / Writer & Director, All at Sea with Noël Coward, Private Drama
- Ensemble Company / Musical Director / Writer & Director, The Best Will in the World, Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival
- Writer, Die Fledermaus, Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra
- Writer, Listen to the Band, BBC Radio 2
- Ensemble Company / Musical Director / Writer & Director, The Best Will in the World, Rita Mansfield Associates
- Ensemble Company / Musical Director / Writer & Director, The Best Will in the World, Private Drama
- Deviser & Director / Musical Director, A Concert for Rona, Private Drama
- Musical Director & Arranger / Musician (Piano) / Writer & Director, Brush Up Your Shakespeare, Private Drama
- Composer / Musical Director, How Do I Look? by Gill Rowe
- Music Arranger / Musical Director, A Victorian Christmas On Ice, Private Drama
- Composer / Writer & Director, Belmont, Private Drama
- Ensemble Company / Musical Director / Writer & Director, If Music and Sweet Poetry Agree
- Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company / Musical Director, The Shakespeare Revue, Robert Friedman Presents
- Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company / Musical Director, The Shakespeare Revue, Alister Cameron for Richmond Productions
- Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company / Musical Director, The Shakespeare Revue, Robert Friedman Presents and Western Arts Alliance
- Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company / Musical Director, The Shakespeare Revue, ARTS San Antonio and Robert Friedman Presents
- Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company / Musical Director, The Shakespeare Revue, ARTS San Antonio and Robert Friedman Presents
- Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company, The Shakespeare Revue, Private Drama
- Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company, The Shakespeare Revue, Shakespeare Revue Company
- Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company, The Shakespeare Revue, Alister Cameron for Richmond Productions
- Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company / Musical Director, The Shakespeare Revue, Alister Cameron for Richmond Productions
- Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company / Musical Director, The Shakespeare Revue, Hiss & Boo Company
- Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company / Musical Director, The Shakespeare Revue, Robert Friedman Presents
- Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company / Musical Director, The Shakespeare Revue, Hiss & Boo Company
- Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company / Musical Director, The Shakespeare Revue, Hiss & Boo Company
- Ensemble Company / Writer & Director, I Should Cocoa!
- Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company / Musical Director, The Shakespeare Revue, Hiss & Boo Company
- Deviser, The Shakespeare Revue, Salisbury Playhouse
- Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company / Musical Director, The Shakespeare Revue, Robert Friedman Presents
- Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company / Musical Director, The Shakespeare Revue, Hiss and Boo Company
- Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company / Musical Director, The Shakespeare Revue, British Council, Hiss & Boo Company, and Rafi Ben Jacob