Nardone's Academy Patron

Alan McHugh

Training: The Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama

Scottish Actor & Script Writer

Theatre Credits

Alan trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and has since worked and toured in countless productions with all the country’s leading theatre companies, including:

The Citizens
National Theatre of Scotland
The Traverse
Royal Lyceum
Perth Rep
Dundee Rep
The Tron
Aberdeen Performing Arts
A Play A Pie & A Pint
The Arches
Wildcat
Borderline
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Television Credits

In addition to many radio and feature/short film credits, he has worked extensively in television in Scotland. His credits include:

Outlander
Double BAFTA Award-winning Limmy's Show
Five Taggarts (Never the deid body once!)
Four Years on High Road
River City
Scot Squad
Two Doors Down
Rab C Nesbitt
Still Game

Writing Credits

Alan has played Panto Dame every year since 1995, being resident Dame at The Adam Smith, Kirkcaldy for eight years as well as writing those pantos, before moving to His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen, where he has been playing Dame since 2004, as well as writing and directing.

Alan is principal script developer/writer for Crossroads Pantomimes (formerly Qdos) – the world’s biggest Panto producer – and each year, writes around twenty of their scripts for venues the length and breadth of the UK.

In addition to writing for Crossroads, and his years of writing the Pantos for the Adam Smith, he has been commissioned to write the Christmas Show/Panto scripts for: