Mel Atkey

Mel Atkey began his career in 1977 by co-producing a jazz concert with Vancouver impressario Willi Germann. This experience would later be recalled in his musical Poor Little Rich Girl Sings the Blues. Other early projects included a telethon featuring folk singer Tom Northcott, and he spent two years as a theatre critic before moving to Toronto to pursue his career as a musical theatre writer. He ... read more