MORAY YOUTH THEATRE

Kevin was active with the Moray Youth Theatre throughout his childhood and adolescence, starting with them at the age of 11 and, prior to this, doing the occasional school play.

1982 Seafield Primary School Production of Oliver Twist (tks to Steve Powell facebook)

His first job was that of the lead actor's understudy in "Oliver!" (Elgin Town Hall on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th of October 1984 tks to  Louise Grant facebook) and he then went on to do quite a few musical productions with the group.

Kevin played Fat Sam in the production of Bugsy Malone 1986 thanks to Ruth Kirkwood and Jane Lydon (facebook)

Jean McIver, former director of Moray Youth Theatre, cast McKidd in his first role in a production of Anne Of Green Gables performed at Elgin Town Hall in 1987.

Bendigo Boswell (no year given) also performed with MYT; Courtesy of a fellow member of the MYT (kevinmckiddonline.com/guestbook)

"Dead Of Night"  (no date) it was a talent show case. Snip from a write up "Kevin Mckidd took to the stage for a sketch in which santa is forced at knifepoint to give a punk a job as a YTS christmas helper.." It also mentions Kevin  played baloo . (Heather Hatch facebook)


UNIVERSITY YEARS

On the university years: "I was one of the first people in my family to go to university, and that was a big thing, but I hated engineering, and after two months stopped going to lectures and joined the Edinburgh University Theatre Company."

After a year, McKidd dropped out formally and did three years of drama school at Edinburgh's Queen Margaret University.

Queen Margaret University 1992-94
http://www.ncdt.co.uk/graddata/view_grad.asp?id=1160905599&first%5Fname=&Place=32&course=0&last%5Fname
http://www.qmced.ac.uk/media_relations/quick_facts.htm

Kevin joined the University's Bedlam Theatre
http://www.bedlamtheatre.co.uk/

The Bent
Bent - Term Time 90/91 (Horst)
Bent - Fringe '91 (Horst)
Festival Fringe, August of Academic Year 1990-91 (Note: Academic years start from October)
http://www.bedlamites.co.uk/shows/00543.php
http://www.bedlamtheatre.co.uk/people/4715

The Tempest
(Spirit / Sailor)
Autumn Term, Oct-Dec of Academic Year 1991-92 (Note: Academic years start from October)
http://www.bedlamites.co.uk/shows/00433.php
http://www.bedlamtheatre.co.uk/people/4715

Seek Bevagan

Kevin talked about this Germanic stage movement on Jay Leno's "Tonight Show" interview in 2007. When the group ran out of colored stage makeup, they painted themselves with blue paint and, subsequently, Kevin had a bad case of lead poisoning.

The Improverts [Theater Sports]  (similar to "Whose Line is it Anyway?")
Edinburgh University improv outfit, the Improverts, where such luminaries as Kevin McKidd (Trainspotting) and Miles Jupp (Balamory) cut their teeth.
http://living.scotsman.com/features/Shamwagon.2741458.jp
http://www.improverts.co.uk/

1993/4 : Macbeth ...Macbeth
(director Cordelia Ditton; this reduced cast production was staged at Queen Margaret College)

Macbeth ...Kevin Mckidd
Macduff ...Alastair McKay
Stewart Cassidy Malcolm/Duncan ...Kristian Ebbesen
2nd Witch/Porter/Messenger ...Sarah Gudgeon
Lady Macbeth ...Helen Lomax
3rd Witch/Fleance/Servant ...Dayne Romer
1st Witch ...Marion Scott

1993/4 : The Comedians 

According to Dave Carter, "...[I] played the Caretaker in Comedians with Kevin McKidd, who I was later to work with in 16 Years. If you haven't seen Kevin's feature film Dog Soldiers, you're missing out by the way."   http://www.fightdirector.com/biographycontent.html
Kevin took the part of Eddie Waters 

     Kevin McKidd ~ A play comedians I did in final year of drama school - I played the teacher ( old man acting!) 


The Three Sisters : Andrei 
The Nativity : Various
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime : Lord Arthur Savile
Agamemnon : Chorus
Antigone : Chorus
Teechers : Oggy Moxon 
Any thing Goes : Diploma show 


1995 : The Silver Darlings

During last year of drama school, Kevin landed the lead role in "The Silver Darlings" at Citizen's Theatre in Glasgow for the Wildcat Theatre Company, for which he won the Gulliver Award.  Immediately after graduation, McKidd auditioned for and won the lead role in the stage adaptation by the same name, "The Silver Darlings," at Robert Carlyle's Rain Dog Theatre Company. http://www.isabellajarrett.co.uk/izzyreviews.html

 
OUT ON HIS OWN


1996 : Richard III ... Richmond for the Royal Shakespeare Company; Barbican Theatre
theatricalia.com
RSC performance Database
Richard III (Barbican) Souvenir Programme: David Troughton, Robin Nedwell, Michael Siberry, Susan Brown, Diana Coupland, Cherry Morris, John Nettles, Clifford Rose, Victor Spinetti, Simon Chadwick, Kevin McKidd; dir: Steven Pimlott [44pp; 8.25x11.7; cast list, photos, illustrations, articles, biographies etc.; VG] (£5) SOLD 
phyllis.demon.co.uk


1997 : The Last of the MacEachanns (Freeway Stage/Tinkerbox) ...The Voice
Date of Event: Between 8 April 1997 and 19 April 1997
Citizens' Theatre Stalls Studio , Glasgow
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/sta/search/detaile.cfm?EID=16214

1998 : Britannicus ... Britannicus

Kevin did the London stage production of "Britannicus," for which he won the Ian Charleston Award.  He played the title role in "Britannicus" at the Albery Theatre for the Almeida; shortly thereafter, the production transferred to New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music for two weeks.  It was during this brief stay in New York City that Kevin proposed to his wife Jane.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,651843,00.html
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00EFD71631F932A25752C0A96F958260

1999 : Tis Pity She's a Whore

Old Vic production of Tis Pity She's a Whore with Jude Law as Giovanni and Kevin McKidd as Soranzo
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117914943.html?categoryid=31&cs=1

2000 : Far Away

NOV 2000 -Far Away at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs (Ran 23 November - 22 December 2000)
http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/reviews/faraway.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre/features/everyone-talks-quietly-as-if-all-is-normal--which-is-scary-as-hell-629791.html
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/show-580748-details/Far+Away/showReview.do?reviewId=580753
http://www.albemarle-london.com/Archive/ArchiveShow.php?Show_Name=Far%20Away

2002 : Far Away- Stop the War Coalition Fund-raising Benefit

Sunday 4 November 2002: 7:30pm -- Royal Court Theater, Sloane Square.  This benefit featured plays by Caryl Churchill and Tony Kushner. Scenes from Churchill's "Far Away" - first performed at the Royal Court - were directed by Nina Raine and performed by Linda Bassett, Katherine Tozer, Kevin McKidd and Annabelle Seymour-Julen.  http://www.burninggold.net/kevinmckidd/news/news.html

2003 : The Woman in White

11-13 July - Andrew Lloyd Webber's newest musical "The Woman in White" - Sydmonton Festival
The presentation was a workshop of Act One and included a couple songs from Act Two. A six-piece orchestra was conducted by Simon Lee. The cast included Anne Hathaway ("The Princess Diaries"), Laura Michelle Kelly (Eliza of Trevor Nunn's West End "My Fair Lady"), Kevin McKidd ("Trainspotting"), Roger Allam ("The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone") and Kevin Colson ("Aspects of Love"). http://web.playbill.com/news/article/80733.html 

2007 : Dr Zhivago, The Musical

During 2007, Michael "Tuba" McKinsey premiered six new shows! The first, Lucy Simon's "Zhivago" took Michael across the Atlantic to London. Performing alongside Kevin McKidd (NBC's "Journeyman", HBO's "Rome"), Chris Sarandon, Jason Danieley, and directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff, Michael debuted the role of the Kossack Commander for British audiences. With a lush and dramatic score by Tony Winner Lucy Simon ("Secret Garden"), and book based on the classic novel by Boris Pasternak, "Zhivago" seems Broadway bound.
http://www.tubamckinsey.com/tubamckinsey.com/About_Me.html

Doctor Zhivago the musical is coming to London next year, based purely on the Boris Pasternak novel, not David Lean's movie. And no, it won't feature Maurice Jarre's famous Lara's Theme. Des McAnuff, in London doing the final casting for London production of the great Jersey Boys musical, told me he has been working for five years with composer Lucy Simon and lyricists Michael Korie and Amy Powers. A work-in-progress version was done in California and Kevin McKidd took part in a rehearsed reading over here, but the London show that previews next October is a world premiere. "You'd need four nights to get the whole novel in," McAnuff joked, so the piece covers the Revolution and runs till the Twenties, concentrating on five main characters, Zhivago, Lara, Tonya, Komarovsky and Pasha. Producer Andrew Fell is in talks with owners of large theatre houses, but no deals are likely to be struck till the New Year.  Expected in London late 2008.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/ar....in_page_id=1794

Kevin McKidd ~  a rehearsed performance in New York just before Xmas and one in London in first week of January - Des Mcanuff directed - music by Lucy Simon
( Carly Simon sister) I played Zhivago


AWARDS
1995 - The Gulliver Award for the Performing Arts in Scotland
1998 - Ian Charleson Award for outstanding performances by actors under the age of thirty in classical roles (i.e. in plays written prior to 1904)
http://members.aol.com/dramaddict/charleson.htm#1998

Radio Work

Title: Come go with me
Content: Come go with me, by Duncan McLean. BBC Radio Scotland Storyline, 1996. Script
Place of Creation: Edinburgh
Date of Creation: 1996
broadcaster: B.B.C. Radio Scotland
performer: Kevin McKidd b.1973
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/sta/search/detaild.cfm?DID=68767


Title: News From North Britain : Willemena's metaphor
Content: News From North Britain : Willemena's metaphor, by Beatrice Colin. BBC Scotland Radio, 1997. Script
Place of Creation: Edinburgh
Date of Creation: 1997
performer: Kevin McKidd b.1973
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/sta/search/detaild.cfm?DID=68898

Title: The fourth foreigner
Date of Event: 25 May 1996
Event Type: play
broadcaster: B.B.C. Radio Scotland
director: Patrick Rayner
performer: John Buick
performer: Richard Greenwood
performer: Peter Grimes
performer: Molly Innes
performer: Richard Low
performer: Michael MacKenzie
performer: Kevin McKidd b.1973
performer: Paul Nivison
performer: Rosaleen Pelan
performer: Tom Smith
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/sta/search/detaile.cfm?EID=24576


"Sunset Song" for BBC Radio Scotland (no date)...Ewan Tavendale
Information supplied via Kevinmckiddonline/guestbook
Courtesy of Vicki Masson (actress, Rob Roy), who played Chris Guthrie to Kevin's Ewan in "Sunset Song" for BBC Radio Scotland

Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901 - 1935) remains one of the most evocative works of Scottish literature. Its themes of constancy and change, seen through the eyes of central character Chris Guthrie, are often considered a metaphor for the state of Scotland itself.

To read more on the plot outline, visit http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/sunsetsong/direction/plot.asp


M (2003) ...Beckert
M radio production by Thea von Harbou and Fritz Lang.

Fritz Lang's 1931 masterpiece was voted the most important German film of all-time by several hundred film critics and scholars. Featuring Peter Lorre's striking debut as suspected serial killer Hans Beckert, 'M' shows Berlin gripped with fear as a murderer preys on the city's children against a backdrop of political unrest and rising criminality. Kevin McKidd stars as Beckert in Peter Straughan's radio version, which acknowledges the debt that Lang owed to the radio pioneers who paved the way for his innovative and telling first steps in the use of sound in movies. (Courtesy Kevin McKidd Yahoo group)

Ruslan and Lyudmila (1999) ...Ruslan
A poem by Alexander Pushkin, published in 1820.

Written as an epic fairy tale consisting of a dedication six "songs" or "cantos" and an epilogue, this masterpiece tells the story of the abduction of Prince Vladimir of Kiev's daughter, Ludmila, by an evil spirit and the attempt by the brave knight Ruslan to find and rescue her. This production was an adaptation by Gary Yershon
(Music MD from Topsy Turvy)
(Courtesy KMK burninggold.com website)


Adverts/Commercials
Tennent's Lager "Murder One Tonight " and "Body Armour" (2002 ad) ... voice work
Ameritrade Commercial (2000)
Scottish Rugby Match promotion ... Voice work
Easy Jet Advert ... Voice Work

Other
1993 and 1994 Witchery Tours Edinburgh. Kevin started as a 'jumpin ooter' ( costumed characters that appear on our tours) but was quickly promoted to leading the trips as Adam Lyal (deceased).  (Robin Mitchell)

Various Program's and Reviews