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Alex MacKeith

Writer

Alex writes for theatre, film & TV and performs musical comedy. His debut feature screenplay, ‘The Lesson’, was released by Universal and Bleecker Street in 2023. Starring Richard E Grant, Julie Delpy and Daryl McCormack, the film was a New York Times Critic’s Pick and described by Stephen King as ‘Cold, smart and suspenseful… Excellent acting and a nicely timed twist at the end.’ For the script, Alex was longlisted for a BIFA for Best Debut Screenwriter.
His first play, ‘School Play’, ran at the Southwark Playhouse to national critical acclaim and was published by Bloomsbury. As a comedian, he won the 2020 Musical Comedy Awards and took his debut solo show, ‘Thanks for Listening’, to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2022. Chortle described the show as ‘Funny, atmospheric, sometimes gently ludicrous, sometimes rooted in reality and sometimes a little of both.’ It enjoyed a sellout run and transferred to London’s Soho Theatre. Recently, Alex was a semi-finalist in the BBC New Comedy Awards 2023, and worked in the writers room for seasons one and two of the BBC3 comedy-drama ‘Boarders’. He is currently writing an episode for the second season ‘The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin’ for Big Talk and Apple TV+, and developing an original comedy series, ‘Freelance’, with Baby Cow Productions.

Credits

TELEVISION
Date: 2024
Production (role):
THE COMPLETELY MADE-UP ADVENTURES OF DICK TURPIN S2
Company:
Big Talk / Apple
Project details:
Writer of 1 episode
Date: 2023
Production (role):
BOARDERS S1 & S2
Company:
Studio Lambert / BBC3
Project details:
Writers room & script consultant
FEATURE FILM
Date: 2023
Production (role):
THE LESSON
(Writer)
Company:
Golden Arrow Pictures
Project details:
Dir. Alice Troughton

Prod. Camille Gatin

Logline: An aspiring novelist lands a job tutoring the son of his literary idol on a secluded country estate. Soon he is immersed in the grief-stricken family, and begins to suspect a dark secret at its heart.

Premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Long-listed for Best Debut Screenwriter at British Independent Film Awards
IN DEVELOPMENT
Production (role):
FREELANCE
Company:
Baby Cow
Project details:
Period comedy series
Production (role):
THE MANSIONS
(co-written with Jamie Fraser)
Company:
Ray Pictures
Project details:
Horror mystery series. 

Logline: Twenty years ago, a teenager disappeared in the halls of a forbidding tower estate. In the present, a traumatised woman moves into the block — and history repeats itself.
Production (role):
MERSEA
Project details:
Finalist for the International Emmys Sir Peter Ustinov Screenwriting Award 2020.

Mystery series.

Logline: After four strangers discover a murdered body on a desolate causeway, they begin to experience supernatural phenomena as they attempt to find the killer.
Production (role):
17
(co-written with Gemma Addy)
Company:
Banijay Productions
Project details:
Prod. Camille Gatin

TV series based on an idea by David Horregue and Elodie Baradat.

Logline: In the wake of her mother’s death, a teenager in rural France discovers that, once a day, she can turn back time 17 seconds. But when tragedy befalls her school, her gift soon becomes a curse.
THEATRE
Date: 2020
Production (role):
Musical Comedy Awards 2020/21
Project details:
Winner - 2020 Musical Comedy Awards, performing in a folk-musician persona.
Date: 2017
Production (role):
SCHOOL PLAY - Writer

(Southwark Playhouse, February 2017, Dir. Charlie Parham)
Project details:
An Antic Face production in association with Nik Holttum, starring Ann Ogbomo.

Published by Oberon Books.

 **** The Guardian, The Independent, The Stage, Evening Standard, TimeOut London.

Off West End Awards 2018 Nominee: Most Promising New Playwright.

When her school’s SATs results are released, headteacher Jo Fell knows her job is on the line. With the future of the school and its pupils at stake, Jo struggles to retain control as her staff and superiors demand answers.
Date: 2017
Production (role):
REQUIEM FOR ALEPPO - Dramaturg

(Sadler’s Wells Theatre, April 2017 chor. Jason Mabana)
Project details:
Longlisted for Amnesty International’s Freedom of Expression Award 2017.

An international collaboration in response to the destruction of the Syrian city of Aleppo and the displacement of its inhabitants, in aid of Syria Action and Techfugees.
Date: 2018
Production (role):
CLOSING - Writer

Project details:
Monologue.

Selected for Pleasance Theatre’s Reading Week 2018.

Ricardo is the ambitious kitchen porter of a run-down South London gastropub. When a lazy sous-chef blocks his career ladder, Ricardo has two choices: go around. Or knock him off.
Date: 2015
Production (role):
WATSON - Writer

(The Albany, April 2015, C-12 Dance Theatre, dir. Adam Towndrow, chor. Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster)

Project details:
An immersive dance piece, adapting two Arthur Conan-Doyle short stories. After the death of Sherlock Holmes, John Watson is plagued by visions of his lost friend. Soon, he starts to suspect that the unoccupied house opposite his building isn’t as empty as it seems.
Date: 2017-2018
Production (role):
PRINCES OF MAIN: NEW YEAR'S EVE

(Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh, August 2017; Soho Theatre, February 2018)
Project details:
**** The List.

“The future of sketch comedy is in safe hands” — The Telegraph.
SHORT FILM
Production (role):
EXIT EVE
Company:
2019
Project details:
Co-developed with director Charlie Parham, produced by Erebus Pictures, executive producer Camille Gatin.

Screened at Dinard and Underwire festivals.

Eve is the recently-emigrated au pair of a wealthy London couple. Kept in near-isolation under an impossible workload, time begins to collapse as Eve struggles to resist her employers’ coercion.

Credits

  • Date
    Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Date: 2024
    Production (role): THE COMPLETELY MADE-UP ADVENTURES OF DICK TURPIN S2
    Company: Big Talk / Apple
    Project details: Writer of 1 episode
  • Date: 2023
    Production (role): BOARDERS S1 & S2
    Company: Studio Lambert / BBC3
    Project details: Writers room & script consultant
  • Date
    Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Date: 2023
    Production (role): THE LESSON
    (Writer)
    Company: Golden Arrow Pictures
    Project details: Dir. Alice Troughton

    Prod. Camille Gatin

    Logline: An aspiring novelist lands a job tutoring the son of his literary idol on a secluded country estate. Soon he is immersed in the grief-stricken family, and begins to suspect a dark secret at its heart.

    Premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.

    Long-listed for Best Debut Screenwriter at British Independent Film Awards
  • Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Production (role): FREELANCE
    Company: Baby Cow
    Project details: Period comedy series
  • Production (role): THE MANSIONS
    (co-written with Jamie Fraser)
    Company: Ray Pictures
    Project details: Horror mystery series. 

    Logline: Twenty years ago, a teenager disappeared in the halls of a forbidding tower estate. In the present, a traumatised woman moves into the block — and history repeats itself.
  • Production (role): MERSEA
    Company:
    Project details: Finalist for the International Emmys Sir Peter Ustinov Screenwriting Award 2020.

    Mystery series.

    Logline: After four strangers discover a murdered body on a desolate causeway, they begin to experience supernatural phenomena as they attempt to find the killer.
  • Production (role): 17
    (co-written with Gemma Addy)
    Company: Banijay Productions
    Project details: Prod. Camille Gatin

    TV series based on an idea by David Horregue and Elodie Baradat.

    Logline: In the wake of her mother’s death, a teenager in rural France discovers that, once a day, she can turn back time 17 seconds. But when tragedy befalls her school, her gift soon becomes a curse.
  • Date
    Production (role)
    Project details
  • Date: 2020
    Production (role): Musical Comedy Awards 2020/21
    Project details: Winner - 2020 Musical Comedy Awards, performing in a folk-musician persona.
  • Date: 2017
    Production (role): SCHOOL PLAY - Writer

    (Southwark Playhouse, February 2017, Dir. Charlie Parham)
    Project details: An Antic Face production in association with Nik Holttum, starring Ann Ogbomo.

    Published by Oberon Books.

     **** The Guardian, The Independent, The Stage, Evening Standard, TimeOut London.

    Off West End Awards 2018 Nominee: Most Promising New Playwright.

    When her school’s SATs results are released, headteacher Jo Fell knows her job is on the line. With the future of the school and its pupils at stake, Jo struggles to retain control as her staff and superiors demand answers.
  • Date: 2017
    Production (role): REQUIEM FOR ALEPPO - Dramaturg

    (Sadler’s Wells Theatre, April 2017 chor. Jason Mabana)
    Project details: Longlisted for Amnesty International’s Freedom of Expression Award 2017.

    An international collaboration in response to the destruction of the Syrian city of Aleppo and the displacement of its inhabitants, in aid of Syria Action and Techfugees.
  • Date: 2018
    Production (role): CLOSING - Writer

    Project details: Monologue.

    Selected for Pleasance Theatre’s Reading Week 2018.

    Ricardo is the ambitious kitchen porter of a run-down South London gastropub. When a lazy sous-chef blocks his career ladder, Ricardo has two choices: go around. Or knock him off.
  • Date: 2015
    Production (role): WATSON - Writer

    (The Albany, April 2015, C-12 Dance Theatre, dir. Adam Towndrow, chor. Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster)

    Project details: An immersive dance piece, adapting two Arthur Conan-Doyle short stories. After the death of Sherlock Holmes, John Watson is plagued by visions of his lost friend. Soon, he starts to suspect that the unoccupied house opposite his building isn’t as empty as it seems.
  • Date: 2017-2018
    Production (role): PRINCES OF MAIN: NEW YEAR'S EVE

    (Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh, August 2017; Soho Theatre, February 2018)
    Project details: **** The List.

    “The future of sketch comedy is in safe hands” — The Telegraph.
  • Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Production (role): EXIT EVE
    Company: 2019
    Project details: Co-developed with director Charlie Parham, produced by Erebus Pictures, executive producer Camille Gatin.

    Screened at Dinard and Underwire festivals.

    Eve is the recently-emigrated au pair of a wealthy London couple. Kept in near-isolation under an impossible workload, time begins to collapse as Eve struggles to resist her employers’ coercion.
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