Tom MacRae
Tom MacRae | |
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.jpg) MacRae at a Doctor Who convention in March 2012 | |
| Born | 6 August 1977 Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire, England |
| Occupation(s) | Television writer, screenwriter, author, playwright, lyricist, television producer |
| Known for | Threesome, Everybody's Talking About Jamie |
| Spouse |
Dannie Pye (m. 2017) |
Tom MacRae (born 6 August 1977) is an English television writer, author, playwright, lyricist, television producer, and screenwriter. He is best known as the creator of the television series Threesome and the book writer and lyricist of the Olivier nominated stage musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie.
Early life
The only child of Dianne, an art teacher, and Anthony, an artist, MacRae grew up in Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire[1] and attended Campion School, Bugbrooke.
Television career
His writing for television includes
For the television series Doctor Who, he wrote the two-part story "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel". Issue 383 of Doctor Who Magazine reported that MacRae had been commissioned to write the episode "Century House" for Series 4, broadcast in 2008; however, this episode was cancelled after Russell T Davies decided that it was too close in tone to another episode. For Matt Smith's Doctor, MacRae wrote the episode "The Girl Who Waited", broadcast in 2011.
That same year, MacRae created and wrote
In 2015, he co-wrote the television adaptation of Raymond Briggs' Fungus the Bogeyman.[4]
Since 2016 he has written several episodes for the television fantasy series The Librarians.[5]
Other writing ventures
Tom MacRae wrote a picture book for children called The Opposite, which has gone into paperback and been published in several languages. His second book for children, Baby Pie, also received a paperback edition.[6] MacRae also wrote the short stories "Once Upon a Time" and "Cats and Dogs", which were published in Doctor Who Storybook 2007 and Doctor Who Storybook 2008, respectively.
He wrote the book and lyrics to the stage musical
References
- ^ Who's The Star Of Village Fete Daventry Express, 11 September 2006
- BBC 1
- ^ Tom MacRae 'Threesome' Q&A: 'Series two is going to be different' Digital Spy, 26 September 2012
- ^ ‘Fungus the Bogeyman’: Victoria Wood and Timothy Spall on the new TV production of Raymond Briggs' classic Independent, 22 December 2015
- ^ Librarians: Dean Devlin on Doctor Who influence, previews season 3 death Entertainment Weekly, 19 November 2016
- ^ About the author – Tom Macrae Random House
- ^ www.dewynters.com, DEWYNTERS |. "Everybody's Talking About Jamie". www.nimaxtheatres.com. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
- ^ D’Alessandro, Anthony (20 May 2021). "'Everybody's Talking About Jamie': Feature Musical Skips Theaters & Heads To Amazon Prime". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
- ^ D’Alessandro, Anthony (12 June 2020). "'The One And Only Ivan' Heads To Disney+; 'Beatles: Get Back' Moves To 2021 & More: Disney Release Date Changes". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (20 August 2019). "Amy Adams 'Woman In The Window' Will Now Open In Early Summer, 'Cruella' Moves To 2021". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
- ^ Sullivsn, Lindsey (12 June 2020). "Everybody's Talking About Jamie Movie Musical Shifts Release Date to January 2021". Broadway.com. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
- ^ "Nominations Announced: EE British Academy Film Awards in 2022". 3 February 2022.
External links
- Tom MacRae at IMDb
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