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. 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 Listen to the Band.
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 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 the then 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
- And Clive Hayward
- Anything Goes
- Are We Keeping You Up? by Lesley Mackie, Terry Wale & Malcolm McKee
- Aria by Jan Hartley & Malcolm McKee
- As the Actress Said to the Bishop
- Basil Brush: Unleashed
- Belmont
- The Best of British
- The Best of British
- The Best Will in the World
- Brush Up Your Shakespeare
- By Royal Command
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Ian Granville Bell & Malcolm McKee
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Richard H Williams & Malcolm McKee
- Cocktails with Joyce Grenfell by Nicola Keen & Malcolm McKee
- Come Rain, Come Shine
- Come Rain, Come Shine
- Comedy Tonight by Nicola Keen & Malcolm McKee
- Crackers & Spice
- Dance: In the Frame
- End of Term
- From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
- The Good Companions
- I Enjoy Being a Girl
- I Should Cocoa!
- If Music and Sweet Poetry Agree
- The Kit Kat Club
- Laughed Out of Court
- Love etc
- Lullaby of Broadway by Jan Hartley & Malcolm McKee
- Masterpieces by Christopher Luscombe & Malcolm McKee
- Moonlight Serenade by Jan Hartley & Malcolm McKee
- On the Grapevine
- On the Grapevine
- Rags to Riches
- The Shakespeare Revue by Christopher Luscombe & Malcolm McKee
- The Sound of Rodgers & Hammerstein
- Spaghetti Junction by Michael Bennett, Mike Jackson & Malcolm McKee
- Spring Fever
- A Talent to Amuse by Christopher Luscombe & Malcolm McKee
- Tea with Joyce Grenfell by Nicola Keen & Malcolm McKee
- Theatrical Digs
- Vicarage Allsorts
- Viennese Strauss Gala
- Virtual Coward by Christopher Luscombe & Malcolm McKee
- What the Dickens!
- Wicked Women by Sara Coward, Sunny Ormonde & Malcolm McKee
- The Wild Party
- You Can Not Be Serious by Nicola Keen & Malcolm McKee!
Current & Upcoming productions
- Director / Musical Director & Arranger / Narrator / Writer, Tea with Joyce Grenfell by Nicola Keen & Malcolm McKee, London Revue Company and Upgrade Your Day
- Writer for Basil Brush, Windsor’s Greatest Ever Night of Comedy, Bill Kenwright Ltd / Windsor Theatre Royal
- Writer, Basil Brush: Unleashed, Basil Brush Ltd
- Director / Musical Director & Arranger / Narrator / Writer, Cocktails with Joyce Grenfell by Nicola Keen & Malcolm McKee, London Revue Company
Past productions
- Director / Musical Director & Arranger / Narrator / Writer, Cocktails with Joyce Grenfell by Nicola Keen & Malcolm McKee, London Revue Comany
- Malvolio, Twelfth Night, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Shakespeare’s Coming Home
- Writer, Basil Brush: Unleashed
- Contributing Writer / Deviser / Musical Director & Arranger, Theatrical Digs, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Company
- Presenter / Writer, Viennese Strauss Gala, British Philharmonic Concert Orchestra
- Writer, Basil Brush: Unleashed
- Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company / Musical Director, The Shakespeare Revue by Christopher Luscombe & Malcolm McKee, Primary Shakespeare Company
- Ensemble Company / Musical Director / Writer & Director, An Actor’s Life for Me, London Revue Company
- Presenter / Writer, The Sound of Rodgers & Hammerstein, British Philharmonic Concert Orchestra
- Music Arranger / Script Writer / Song Writer, Ursula Annunziata in Cabaret, EuroMed
- Ensemble Company / Musical Director / Writer & Director, The Best of British, Alister Cameron and London Revue Company
- Composer / Musical Director / Musician (Piano), While the Sun Shines
- Ensemble Company / Music Arranger / Musical Director / Writer, From the Sublime to the Ridiculous, London Revue Company
- Ensemble Company / Musical Director / Writer & Director, An Actor’s Life for Me, Shakespeare Revue Company
- Deviser / Director / Ensemble Company (The Archers) / Musical Director / Producer (Shakespeare Revue Company), Come Rain, Come Shine, Hiss and Boo Company and Shakespeare Revue Company
- Deviser / Music Arranger, A Talent to Amuse by Christopher Luscombe & Malcolm McKee, Royal Academy of Music
- Music Arranger / Song Writer, Ursula Annunziata in Cabaret, EuroMed
- Ensemble Company / Writer & Director, By Royal Command, London Revue Comany
- Ensemble Company / Musical Director / Writer & Director, Comedy Tonight by Nicola Keen & Malcolm McKee, London Revue Company
- Ensemble Company / Music Arranger / Musical Director & Pianist / Writer & Director, And Clive Hayward, Shakespeare Revue Company
- Deviser & Performer / MD / Composer / Arranger, Wicked Women by Sara Coward, Sunny Ormonde & Malcolm McKee
- 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
- Music Arranger / Musical Director / Performer / Writer & Director, You Can Not Be Serious by Nicola Keen & Malcolm McKee!, London Revue Comany
- Ensemble Company / Musical Director & Arranger / Writer & Director, An Actor’s Life for Me, Shakespeare Revue Company
- Director / Ensemble Company / Musical Director / Writer, An Actor’s Life for Me, Shakespeare Revue Company
- Director / Ensemble Company / Writer, On the Grapevine, Shakespeare Revue Company
- Ensemble Company / Musical Director & Arranger / Writer, Crackers & Spice, Shakespeare Revue Company
- Ensemble Company / Musical Director & Arranger / Writer & Director, Love etc, by Malcolm McKee, Shakespeare Revue Company
- Ensemble Company / Musical Director & Arranger / Writer & Director, Love etc, Shakespeare Revue Company
- Ensemble Company / Musical Director & Arranger / Writer & Director, On the Grapevine, Shakespeare Revue Company
- Ensemble Company / Musical Director & Arranger / Writer & Director, An Actor’s Life for Me, Shakespeare Revue Company
- Ensemble Company / Musical Director & Arranger / Writer & Director, Come Rain, Come Shine, Shakespeare Revue Company
- Ensemble Company / Musical Director & Arranger / Writer & Director, Love etc, Shakespeare Revue Company
- Ensemble Company / Musical Director & Arranger / Writer & Director, I Enjoy Being a Girl, Shakespeare Revue Company
- Ensemble Company / Musical Director & Arranger / Writer & Director, Come Rain, Come Shine, Shakespeare Revue Company
- Director / Musical Director & Arranger / Performer / Writer, Moonlight Serenade by Jan Hartley & Malcolm McKee, Shakespeare Revue Company
- Director / Musical Director & Arranger / Performer, Lullaby of Broadway by Jan Hartley & Malcolm McKee, Shakespeare Revue Company
- Director / Musical Director & Arranger / Performer / Writer, Aria by Jan Hartley & Malcolm McKee, Shakespeare Revue Company
- Composer, Blue/Orange, ATG
- Ensemble Company / Musical Director / Writer & Director, What the Dickens!, Shakespeare Revue Company
- Composer / Musical Director / Harpsichord, The Madness of George III, Theatre Royal Bath Productions
- Ensemble Company / Writer & Director, Simply Sondheim, Private Drama
- Writer & Director, Laughed Out of Court, Private Drama
- Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company / Musical Director, Come Fly with Me, London Revue Company
- Book, Music & Lyrics / Musical Director, The Wild Party, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
- Ensemble Company / Writer & Director, Anything Goes, Private Drama
- Musical Director & Arranger, The History Boys, Theatre Royal Bath Productions and West Yorkshire Playhouse
- Musical Director / Special Guest (The Archers) / Writer & Director, An Actor’s Life for Me, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
- Musical Director / Writer & Director, The Best of British, Private Drama