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 HRH The Prince of Wales – A Marvellous Party starring Patricia Routledge and Patrick Stewart (Highgrove and St James’s Palace).

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Writer, Basil Brush: Unleashed August 2021, Underbelly, Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Deviser / Music Arranger / Musical Director, Theatrical Digs, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Company September – October 2020, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford.
Presenter / Writer, Viennese Strauss Gala, British Philharmonic Concert Orchestra January 2020, Wolverhampton Grand.
Writer, Basil Brush: Unleashed August 2019, Underbelly, Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company / Musical Director, The Shakespeare Revue, Primary Shakespeare Company July 2019, Mercers’ Hall, City of London.
Ensemble Company / Musical Director / Writer & Director, An Actor’s Life for Me, London Revue Company May 2019, The Centre, St Helier, Jersey.
Presenter / Writer, The Sound of Rodgers & Hammerstein, British Philharmonic Concert Orchestra April 2019, Wolverhampton Grand Theatre.
Music Arranger / Script Writer / Song Writer, Ursula Annunziata in Cabaret, EuroMed 11^th May 2017, David Intercontinental Hotel, Tel Aviv.
Ensemble Company / Musical Director / Writer & Director, The Best of British, Alister Cameron and London Revue Company May 2017, Radisson Blu Hotel, Bucharest.
Composer / Musical Director / Musician (Piano), While the Sun Shines July 2016, Theatre Royal, Bath.
Ensemble Company / Music Arranger / Musical Director / Writer, From the Sublime to the Ridiculous, London Revue Company May 2016, Swan’s Nest Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Ensemble Company / Musical Director / Writer & Director, An Actor’s Life for Me, Shakespeare Revue Company 2016, Bloxham Literary Festival, RAC Club, Camden Fringe Festival, Normansfield Theatre Twickenham.
Deviser / Director / Ensemble Company (The Archers) / Musical Director / Producer (Shakespeare Revue Company), Come Rain, Come Shine, Hiss and Boo Company and Shakespeare Revue Company 1999 – 2016, Selected Venues.
Deviser / Music Arranger, A Talent to Amuse, Royal Academy of Music July 2015, St James Theatre, London.
Music Arranger / Song Writer, Ursula Annunziata in Cabaret, EuroMed 11^th May 2015, NH Hotel Palermo, Sicily.
Ensemble Company / Writer & Director, By Royal Command, London Revue Comany 1^st April 2015, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park.
Ensemble Company / Musical Director / Writer & Director, Comedy Tonight, London Revue Company April 2015, Richmond Golf Club.
Ensemble Company / Music Arranger / Musical Director & Pianist / Writer & Director, And Clive Hayward, Shakespeare Revue Company January 2015, Strada, Harpenden.
Deviser & Performer / MD / Composer / Arranger, Wicked Women 2011 – 2015, Selected Dates.
Deviser & Director / Musical Director & Composer, As the Actress Said to the Bishop, Stars of The Archers & the West End October 2014, St Andrew’s Church, Shottery.
Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company / Musical Director, Silver Linings, Shakespeare Revue Company 20^th September 2014, The Orange, Pimlico.
Ensemble Company / Music Arranger / Musical Director / Writer, You Can Not Be Serious!, London Revue Comany February 2014, The Orangery, Kilworth House.
Director / Ensemble Company / Musical Director / Writer, An Actor’s Life for Me, Shakespeare Revue Company 2011 – 2014, Swan Hellenic Cruises.
Composer, Blue/Orange, ATG September – November 2012, Theatre Royal Brighton & UK Tour.
Ensemble Company / Musical Director / Writer & Director, What the Dickens!, Shakespeare Revue Company July 2012, Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival.
Composer / Musical Director / Harpsichord, The Madness of George III, Theatre Royal Bath Productions January – March 2012, Apollo Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue), London.
Writer & Director, Laughed Out of Court, Private Drama May 2011, Royal Courts of Justice, London.
Deviser & Director / Ensemble Company / Musical Director, Come Fly with Me, London Revue Company 8^th March 2011, Sopwell House, St Albans.
Book, Music & Lyrics / Musical Director, The Wild Party, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School November 2010, Tobacco Factory, Bristol.
Ensemble Company / Writer & Director, Anything Goes, Private Drama September 2010, Royal Automobile Club.
Musical Director & Arranger, The History Boys, Theatre Royal Bath Productions and West Yorkshire Playhouse January – June 2010, West Yorkshire Playhouse & UK Tour.
Musical Director / Special Guest (The Archers) / Writer & Director, An Actor’s Life for Me, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School June 2010, Bristol Old Vic, Theatre Royal.
Musical Director / Writer & Director, The Best of British, Private Drama June 2010, Spencer House, London.
Musical Director & Arranger / Writer & Director, An Actor’s Life for Me, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School March 2010, Redgrave Theatre, Bristol & Circomedia.
Writer & Director, Rags to Riches, Private Drama March 2010, Hampton Court Palace.
Adaptation, Music & Lyrics / Musical Director, The Good Companions, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School November 2009, Bristol Old Vic.
Musical Director / Writer & Director, All at Sea with Noël Coward, Private Drama May 2009, Royal Automobile Club.
Ensemble Company / Musical Director / Writer & Director, The Best Will in the World, Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival April 2009, King Edward VI School.
Writer, Die Fledermaus, Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra December 2008, West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge.
Writer, Listen to the Band, BBC Radio 2 December 2008, Huddersfield Town Hall.
Ensemble Company / Musical Director / Writer & Director, The Best Will in the World, Rita Mansfield Associates August 2008, International Convention Centre, Birmingham.
Ensemble Company / Musical Director / Writer & Director, The Best Will in the World, Private Drama 2004 – 2008, Shakespeare’s Globe, Hampton Court Palace.
Deviser & Director / Musical Director, A Concert for Rona, Private Drama 9^th December 2007, Ditchling Village Hall.
Musical Director & Arranger / Musician (Piano) / Writer & Director, Brush Up Your Shakespeare, Private Drama December 2007, Kensington Palace Gardens.
Contributing Composer / Contributing Lyricist / Writer & Director, Crackers & Spice, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School November – December 2007, Bristol Old Vic.
Music Arranger / Musical Director, A Victorian Christmas On Ice, Private Drama 16^th November 2007, Somerset House, London.
Composer / Musical Director, How Do I Look? by Gill Rowe November 2007, St George’s, Holland Park.
Writer & Director, Dance: In the Frame, Private Drama August 2007, Royal Courts of Justice.
Composer / Writer & Director, Belmont, Private Drama June 2007, Two Temple Place, London.
Writer & Director, The Kit Kat Club, Private Drama and Urban Caprice April 2007, Bloomsbury Ballroom.

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