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Alan Cumming

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Alan Cumming

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  • (1998) Album: Featured in the Broadway cast recording of the revival of "Cabaret".
  • (3/98) Stage: Appeared (as "Emcee") in "Cabaret" on Broadway.
  • (2001) Stage: Appeared (as "Otto") in Noël Coward's "Design for Living". Revival. Roundabout Theatre Co., New York City.
  • Audiobook: Narrated "Vittorio the Vampire" by Anne Rice (Random House Audiobooks).
  • (2003) Novel: "Tommy's Tale" A Novel".
  • (2002) Narrated Roald Dahl's "Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts" audiobook.
  • (4/06) Stage: Appeared (as "Macheath") in "The Threepenny Opera" by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, adapted by Wallace Shawn. Revival. Studio 54, New York City.
  • (9/22/06-1/13/07) Stage: Appeared (as "Max") in "Bent" by Martin Sherman. Trafalgar Studios, London, UK.
  • (2/06-3/06) Stage: Appeared (as "Trigorin") in Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull". Revival. Classic Stage Co., New York City.
  • (2007) Stage: Appeared (as "Dionysus") in Euripides' "The Bacchae". Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • (2002) Stage: Appeared (as "The Pope") in the English-language premiere of "Elle" by Jean Genet, which he adapted himself.
  • (1993) Stage: Appeared (as "Hamlet") in William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" on its UK tour.
  • (1992) Stage: Appeared (as "Valere") in "La Bete", by David Hirson. Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London, UK.
  • (1990) Stage: Appeared (as "The Madman") in "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" by Dario Fo--which he adapted himself--on its UK tour.
  • (1989) Stage: Appeared in "Singer" by Peter Flannery, Royal Shakespeare Company.
  • (1989) Stage: Appeared in "Knickers" by Carl Sternheim, Bristol Old Vic Theatre, UK.
  • (1988) Stage: Appeared (as "Slupianek") in "The Conquest of the South Pole" by Manfred Karge, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
  • (1988) Stage: Appeared (as "Pip") in "Great Expectations" based on the novel by Charles Dickens, UK tour.
  • (1987 - 1988) Stage: Appeared (as "Phil") in "The Slab Boys Trilogy" by John Byrne. Dundee Repertory.
  • (1987) Stage: Appeared (as "Cliff") in "Cabaret" at the Brunton Theatre.
  • (1987) Stage: Appeared in "It's Not The End of the World" by Jack Klaff and Bob Sinfield, Scottish tour.
  • (1986) Stage: Appeared (as "Valere") in "Tartuffe" by Molière, Royal Lyceam Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
  • (1985) Stage: Appeared (as "Andy") in "The Ugly Duckling", Magnum Centre, Irvine, CA.
  • (1985) Stage: Appeared in "Trumpets and Raspberries" by Dario Fo, Scottish tour.
  • (1985) Stage: Appeared (as "Malcom") in William Shakespeare's "Macbeth, Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland.
  • (1992) TV commercial: Minute Maid orange juice
  • TV commercial: Lee jeans
  • (1993) Stage: Appeared (as "Emcee") in the revival "Cabaret", Donmar Warehouse, London, UK.
  • (1998) Stage: Appeared (as "Emcee") in the revival of "Cabaret", Kit Kat Club, New York City.
  • (1999) Stage: Appeared (as "Emcee") in the revival of "Cabaret", Studio 54, New York City.
  • (2007) Stage: Appeared (as "Dionysus") in Euripides' "The Bacchae". Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London, UK.
  • (1988) Stage: Appeared (as "Slupianek") in "The Conquest of the South Pole" by Manfred Karge, Royal Court Theatre, London.
  • (1987) Stage: Appeared (as "Mussleburgh") in "A Royal Hatch" at the Bruton Theatre.
  • (1989) Stage: Appeared (as "Silvius") in William Shakespeare's "As You Like It", Royal Shakespeare Company.
  • (1987) Stage: Wrote and appeared in "Babes in the Woods", Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
  • (1985) Stage: Appeared (as "Victoria") in "Sleeping Beauty", Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
  • (1985) Stage: Appeared in "Macbeth Possessed" by Stuart Delves, Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
  • (1986) Stage: Appeared (as "Donal") in "Mr. Government" by Stuart Paterson at the Royal Lyceam Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
  • (1986) Stage: Appeared (as "Young Collector / Doctor") in "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams at the Royal Lyceam Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
  • (April 2013) Set to open and reprise his bravura lead role in MacBeth" with the National Theatre of Scotland's production in New York City on Broadway at the Barrymore Theatre.
  • (February 2008 - March 2008) Stage play: The Seagull - playing Trigorin at the Classic Stage Company
  • (1993) He acted in John Kander and Fred Ebb's musical, "Cabaret," at the Donmar Warehouse Theatre in London, England with Jane Horrocks, Adam Godley, George Raistrick, and Sara Kestelman in the cast.
  • (January 1990-October 1990; December 1990-January 1991) He acted in the Royal National Theatre Season at the Laurence Olivier Theatre, Cottesloe Theatre, and Lyttelton Theatre in London, England in Henrik Ibsen's play, "Peer Gynt;" Tony Harrison's play,"The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus;" Bertolt Brecht's play, "The Good Person of Sichuan;" Martin Sherman's play, "Bent;" Stephen Sondheim's musical, "Sunday in the Park with George;" Anthony Minghella's play, "Whale;" Georges Farquhar, "The Beaux Stratagem," David Hare's play, "Racing Demon;" August Wilson's play, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom;" Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play, "The School for Scandal;" Jean Racine's play, "Berenice;" Moliere's play, "Tartuffe;" "Abingdon Square;" Arthur Miller's plays, "After the Fall;" William Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet," "Richard III," and "Hamlet" (Bulandra Theatre); Terry Johnson's play, "Piano;" Brian Friel's play, "Dancing at Lughnasa;" Athol Fugard's play, "My Children, My Africa" (Market Theatre); Paul Godfrey's play, "One in a While The Odd Thing Happens;" Kenneth Grahame and Alan Bennett's play, "The Wind in the Willows;" Robert Lepage's play, "Tectonic Plates;" Dario Fo's play, "Accidental Death of an Anarchist;" and David Edgar's play, "The Shape of the Table;" with Annabelle Apsion, Jane Asher, Sheila Ballantine, David Bamber, Keith Bartlett, Lois Baxter, Duncan Bell, Stephen Bent, Brenda Blethyn, Richard Bonneville, Stephen Boxer, David Bradley, Elizabeth Bradley, Brid Brennan, Richard Briers, Michael Bryant, Suzanne Burden, David Burke, Ion Caramitru, Michael Cashman, Tom Chadbon, Maria Charles, Trevor Cooper, Allan Corduner, Oliver Cotton, Brian Cox, Neil Daglish, Nyree Dawn Porter, Stephen Dillane, Anthony Douse, Lindsay Duncan, Christopher Eccleston, Robert Eddison, Susan Engel, Oliver Ford Davies, Julia Ford, Maria Friedman, Lisa Fugard, Sean Gascoigne, Brian Glover, Stella Gonet, Henry Goodman, Jane Gurnett, Garrick Hagon, David Haig, Janet Henfrey, Guy Henry, Clare Higgins, Clare Holman, Harold Innocent, Peter Jeffrey, Hakeem Kae Kazim, John Kani, Ayub Khan Din, Adam Kotz, James Laurenson, Barbara Leigh Hunt, Alfred Lynch, Sara Mair Thomas, Michael Maloney, Eve Matheson, Alec McCowen, Ian McKellen, John Matschikitza, Stephen Moore, David Morrissey, John Normington, John Nettleton, John Neville, Jeremy Northam, Richard O'Callaghan, Richard Pasco, Bill Paterson, Clarke Peters, Pete Postlethwaite, Bruce Purchase, Hugh Quarshie, Philip Quast, Pearce Quigley, Denis Quilley, Oscar Quitak, Gary Raymond, Stephen Rea, Joyce Redman, Paul Rhys, Griff Rhys Jones, Terence Rigby, Barrie Rutter, Prunella Scales, Rapulana Seiphemo, Fiona Shaw, Paul Shelley, Jack Shepherd, Josette Simon, Malcolm Sinclair, Maggie Steed, Mark Strong, Meera Syal, Owen Teale, Bridget Turner, Philip Voss, Zoe Wanamaker, Toyah Wilcox, Tom Wilkinson, Penelope Wilton, Emil Wolk, and Albie Woodington in the company.
  • (January 1991-July 1991; September 1991-January 1992) He acted in the Royal National Theatre season at the Laurence Olivier Theatre, Cottesloe Theatre, and Lyttelton Theatre all in London, England in Tony Harrison's play, "The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus;" Kenneth Grahame and Alan Bennett's play, "The Wind in the Willows;" David Hare's play, "Racing Demon," "Murmuring Judges;" Franz Kafka's play, "The Trial;" Friedrich Durrenmatt's play, "The Visit," (Theatre De Complicite production); Christopher Hampton's play, "White Chameleon;" Alan Ayckbourn's play, "Invisible Play;" Dario Fo's play, "Accidental Death of An Anarchist;" David Edgar's play, "The Shape of the Table;" "Fever;" Eugene O'Neill's play, "Long Day's Journey Into Night;" Moliere's play, "The Miser;" William Shakespeare's play, "Richard III;" Mikhail Bulgakov's play, "White Snow;" John Webster's play, "The White Devil;" Eduardo De Filippo's play, "Napoli Milionaria;" Bertolt Brecht's play, "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui;" "Grand Kabuki" (Shochiku Company production); "At Our Table;" Mustapha Matura's play, "The Coup;" Alan Bennett's play, "The Madness of King George III;" Edward Bond's play, "The Sea;" "The Little Clay Cart;" and Ferderico Garcia Lorca's play, "Blood Wedding;" with Mark Addy, Keith Allen, Tony Armatrading, Robin Bailey, David Bamber, Gillian Barge, Desmond Barrit, Norman Beaton, Stephen Bent, Steven Berkoff, Paul Bhattacharjee, Steven Boxer, Elizabeth Bradley, Richard Briers, Jasper Britton, Eleanor Bron, Michael Bryant, Suzanne Burden, Richenda Carey, Tom Chadbon, Emma Chambers, Ben Chapman, Ron Cook, Trevor Cooper, Lorcan Cranitch, Myriam Cyr, Judi Dench, Stephen Dillane, Linda Dobell, Kate Duchene, Robert Eddison, Alphonsia Emmanuel, Tenniel Evans, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Oliver Ford Davies, Rupert Frazer, Brian Glover, Stella Gonet, Cathryn Harrison, Nigel Hawthorne, Clare Higgins, Kathryn Hunter, Harold Innocent, Saeed Jaffrey, Oscar James, Peter Jeffrey, Stratford Johns, Karl Johnson, Darlene Johnson, Charles Kay, Jeffery Kissoon, Adam Kotz, Peter Laird, Barbara Leigh Hunt, Mark Lewis, Mark Lockyer, John Matshikiza, Simon McBurney, Helen McCrory, Sean McGinley, Ian McKellen, Bill Moody, Paul Moriaty, John Nettleton, Joseph O'Conor, Richard Pasco, Robert Patterson, Patrick Pearson, Bruce Purchase, Denis Quilley, Griff Rhys Jones, Terence Rigby, Sally Rogers, David Ross, Barrie Rutter, Nadim Sawalha, Prunella Scales, Adrian Scarborough, Cyril Shaps, Wallace Shawn, Jack Shephard, Antony Sher, Josette Simon, Malcolm Sinclair, Claire Skinner, Dinah Stabb, Ken Stott, Mark Strong, Tamasaburo, Julian Wadham, Timothy West, Benjamin Whitrow, Peter Wight, Tom Wilkinson, and Andrew Woodall in the company.
  • (1992)
    • TV commercial for Fosters lager, played an executive who gives up all his money to live as a poor fisherman.
  • (2002) DVD directors' commentary with Jennifer Jason Leigh for The Anniversary Party (2001)

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