Andrew Mackay

Birthday: 7 October 1978, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Height: 180 cm

After leaving school in 1995, Andrew went on to make various video shorts. One of which, Twisted Supernova. won an award by his college for "Most Creative Video". During his time at College, ...Show More

After leaving school in 1995, Andrew went on to make various video shorts. One of which, Twisted Supernova. won an award by his college for "Most Creative Video". During his time at College, he worked with Warner Bros in New York in the fall of 1996.Andrew went on to study media and video production at The University of West London (formerly Thames Valley University). It was here that he made "The Scent of Burning Mortar", starring David Cann and Coronation Street's Bill Ward. The film was shortlisted for the Portobello Film Festival Award in 2000 and gained significant exposure during its week-long run on cable.IN the final year of his degree, Andrew wrote, produced and hosted his own Saturday night comedy sketch show "Punching Marshmallow Pies" on Tube 87.7FM, based at Ealing Studios. He began a career in performing voice overs; his voice was frequently heard in a telephony capacity, which culminated in his being the voice for the company Autotrader in 2004, and was also the voice of the UKGold and KitKat commercials on radio during the same year.Andrew has also been involved in theatre as writer, producer and director. In 2004 Andrew's first play "Broadcast" gained critical acclaim from FHM, Talk Sport and Virgin Radio. His follow-up show "The Show", which was based on his experience of his first play, received similar accolades.In 2006, Andrew's work was recognised by Ed Pressman, which led to the commissioning of a two hour documentary of Simon Hunter's "Mutant Chronicles" (2008) starring Thomas Jane and Ron Perlman. The documentary was shot and edited over a two and a half year period, which is now available on the DVD/BluRay release internationally, and has received exceptional reviews.In 2010, Andrew directed his debut feature as writer/director - "The Scared of Death Society". He has also worked with director Drew Cullingham on two projects, and served as a co-producer on "The Devil's Bargain".Andrew has since hung up his director and acting hats to focus solely on writing and script development. He works with a number of production companies in the US as a spec writer, and has served frequently (and still does) as an uncredited script doctor and spec writer on a number of produced and in-development feature length titles. Hide