Tom MacRae

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 stage musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie.

For the musician, see Tom McRae.

Tom MacRae
Tom MacRae (centre) at a Doctor Who convention
Born (1977-08-06) 6 August 1977
Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire, England
NationalityEnglish
OccupationTelevision writer, screenwriter, author, playwright, lyricist, television producer
Known forThreesome, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Spouse(s)Dannie Pye
(m. 2017)

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 Mayo starring Alistair McGowan; "At Bertrams Hotel" for Marple and "Life Born of Fire" for Lewis; The Lines of War for Bonekickers; and an episode of Casualty.[2] He was nominated for a BAFTA in 2002 for the series Off Limits: School's Out.

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. More recently, MacRae wrote the episode "The Girl Who Waited".

In 2011, he created and wrote Threesome, Comedy Central UK's first original scripted comedy since the channel was renamed in 2009. It starred Stephen Wight and Amy Huberman as a young couple and Emun Elliott as their gay best friend. A second series has aired.[3]

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 Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, which premiered at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield in February 2017. On 21 June it was announced that the musical would transfer to the West End at the Apollo Theatre[7] from 6 November 2017 to 21 April 2018 with most of the Crucible Theatre cast returning. He will also write the film version. The film is scheduled to be released on 22 January 2021, by 20th Century Studios.[8] It was previously scheduled to be released on 23 October 2020,[9] but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[10]

References
  1. Who's The Star Of Village Fete Daventry Express, 11 September 2006
  2. The Lines Of War Archived 26 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine BBC 1
  3. Tom MacRae 'Threesome' Q&A: 'Series two is going to be different' Digital Spy, 26 September 2012
  4. ‘Fungus the Bogeyman’: Victoria Wood and Timothy Spall on the new TV production of Raymond Briggs' classic Independent, 22 December 2015
  5. Librarians: Dean Devlin on Doctor Who influence, previews season 3 death Entertainment Weekly, 19 November 2016
  6. About the author – Tom Macrae Random House
  7. www.dewynters.com, DEWYNTERS |. "Everybody's Talking About Jamie". www.nimaxtheatres.com. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Sullivsn, Lindsey (12 June 2020). "Everybody's Talking About Jamie Movie Musical Shifts Release Date to January 2021". Broadway.com. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
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