Bucks County Cabaret 2013 Program

Alan Cumming Alan Cumming made his professional acting debut as “Malcolm” in Michael Boyd’s 1985 production of Macbeth at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow. Twenty-eight years later he played nearly all the parts in the National Theatre of Scotland’s sensational re-imagining of the Scottish play on Broadway, earning him Broadway.com and BroadwayWorld.com Best Actor awards and a Drama League Distinguished Performance Award nomination.

After working extensively in the Scottish theatre, Cumming made his West End debut in The Conquest of the South Pole, earning him his first Olivier Award nomination. In 1991, he won an Olivier for Accidental Death of an Anarchist at the Royal National Theatre.

In 1998, Cumming made his sensational Broadway debut when Cabaret transferred from the West End, winning him the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and a host of other awards. He’s also appeared on Broadway in Design for Living and The Threepenny Opera and Off-Broadway in Jean Genet’s Elle and The Seagull opposite Dianne Wiest. He will return to Broadway next spring in Roundabout Theatre Company’s much-anticipated revival of Cabaret.

Cumming currently plays Eli Gold on the CBS hit television drama The Good Wife, for which he has been nominated for Emmy, SAG, Satellite and Critics Circle awards. He also appears opposite Lisa Kudrow in Showtime’s Web Therapy and is the host of Masterpiece Mystery on PBS. His eclectic film career has seen him work consecutively with Stanley Kubrick and the Spice Girls, and make appearances in the X Men, Spy Kids, Flintstones and Smurfs franchises, as well as roles in many independent films. He most recently appeared in Travis Fine’s Any Day Now for which he received several Best Actor awards on the film festival circuit.

Cumming has published a novel, Tommy’s Tale, released an album of songs, I Bought A Blue Car Today, and last year had his first exhibition of photographs, Alan Cumming Snaps! He regularly performs in concert, most recently with Liza Minnelli at New York’s Town Hall and over the past few years has sung in seasons at the Sydney Opera House, the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles and London’s Vaudeville Theatre.

For his humanitarian work, particularly in the field of LGBT rights and equality, he has been honored by the Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD, The Trevor Project and the Matthew Shepard Foundation, to name a few. He was honored with both the Great Scot and Icon of Scotland awards, and was made an OBE in the 2009 Queen’s Honors List. Time magazine named him one of the three most fun people in show business. alancumming.com and @alancumming