On my radar: Alan Cumming’s cultural highlights
The actor and writer on South African gospel reworkings of house classics, a beautiful Scottish LGBTQ+ magazine, and his obsession with pressure washing
The actor and writer Alan Cumming was born in 1965 in Aberfeldy, Perthshire. His prolific acting career began in the mid-1980s and has included screen roles in Emma, The Good Wife and Schmigadoon!. On stage, he won an Olivier in 1991 for his performance in Accidental Death of an Anarchist and a Tony in 1998 for playing the Emcee in Cabaret. Cumming has published a novel, two children’s books and two memoirs. His latest book, written with his old comedy partner Forbes Masson, is Victor & Barry’s Kelvinside Compendium, published by 404 Ink; the pair will appear at Wigtown book festival on 6 October. Cumming lives between Scotland and New York with his husband, the illustrator Grant Shaffer.
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