Mel Atkey

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About me

Mel Atkey has been writing musicals ever since he was in high school in his native Vancouver. He was a finalist for the Musical of the Year competition in Aarhus, Denmark, and his work has been short-listed for the Vivian Ellis Prize, the Quest for New Musicals, the Ken Hill Prize and Musical Stairs. His first musical, Shikara, was produced on radio in Canada, and is now available on CD. A single was released of one of the songs, "Far Away", and received airplay across Canada and the U.S. He has written music for two off-Broadway musicals, O Pioneers and A Little Princess about which the New York Times said, "Mel Atkey, who wrote the score and lyrics, has composed lovely music". His two-character musical Perfect Timing was a finalist in the Musical of the Year competition in Aarhus, Denmark, and was showcased at Greenwich Theatre, London. He earned his MA in Musical Theatre from Goldsmiths University of London in 2016 with the musical The Last Queen of Paradise. His current project is I can Fly My Kite to the Moon. He has also turned to writing books, beginning with When We Both Got to Heaven, and Broadway North: The Dream of a Canadian Musical Theatre. In 2012 he published a new book, A Million Miles from Broadway: Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London. Running Away with the Circus (or, "Now is the Winter of our Missing Tent") was published in 2013. In 2014, he published Something Magic -- Mel Atkey and the Musical Theatre, a folio of 30 of the songs from his musicals. Most recently, he published a collection of articles on musical theatre called Breaking Into Song.

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Secondary Job Title	Writer
Job Titles	Writer, Composer, Teacher
Years in industry	6+ years
Organisations / Memberships	BECTU (UK)
Work Permits	Canada