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Biography
Tom MacRae (born 1980) is an English BAFTA and Olivier nominated screenwriter, author and playwright. He is the creator of Comedy Central's Threesome. He has also written episodes of Marple and Lewis for ITV and ofCasualty, Doctor Who and Bonekickers for the BBC.
Early life
The only child of Dianne, an art teacher, and Anthony, an artist, MacRae grew up in Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire and attended Campion School, Bugbrooke.
Television career
His writing for television includes: BBC One's Mayo starring Alistair McGowan;"At Bertrams Hotel" for Marple and "Life Born of Fire" for Lewis (both for ITV1); The Lines of War for the BBC series Bonekickers; and an episode of Casualty. He was nominated for a BAFTA in 2002 for Off Limits: School's Out for Channel 4.
For the Doctor Who television series, he wrote the two-part story "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel" for the 2006 series.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 Girl Who Waited" for the 2011 series.
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.
In 2015, he co-wrote the television adaptation of Raymond Briggs' Fungus the Bogeyman.
Since 2016 he has written several episodes for the television fantasy series The Librarians
Other writing ventures
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.
He wrote the book and lyrics to the new 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 from 6 November 2017 to 21 April 2018 with most of the Crucible Theatre cast returning. He will also write the film version. It is scheduled to be released on 23 October 2020 by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.