Doug McKechnie
- Composer
- Actor
- Producer
Doug McKechnie maintains active participation in the San Francisco Bay Area's creative community. He is widely respected for a varied arts performance and administration career.
Primarily California based, McKechnie broadened his organizational and creative production skills by branching into composition, arrangement and recording. He lent these talents to his entry into a nationally recognized film career. Doug was part of the creative team that independently produced "This Time The World", chronicling the rise of the American Nazi Party; the award-winning documentary won a prize at the Flaherty Film Seminar in 1967.
Beginning in 1970 and continuing into the '80s, McKechnie began creating scores for film, television and theater. He had by this point founded the music production house, Soundtracks in SF, creating music for films and videos, many of which won awards, including Emmys and Golden Eagles. McKechnie's team efforts were further rewarded by eventually having co-created musical scores lend accompaniment to two film projects that became Oscar-nominated, Spaceborne in 1977 and Women, For America, For the World, which won an Oscar in 1987. A generous team player, Doug openly shares credit with brilliant talent such as John Lewis and Joshua Raoul Brody.
Mr. McKechnie has served as Program Director for Intersection Theater, San Francisco-1977; Public Affairs liaison for Fort Mason (Arts) Center'78-'80; Event Producer, Oakland's annual Festival at the Lake'81-'84; and stepped in for two years as supervising Producer for the city's gala annual Beaux Arts Ball-'82-'83, hosted by the American Institute of Architects. McKechnie also created The San Francisco Synthesizer Ensemble-1984, a group of composers who created an international sensation by playing the Golden Gate Bridge as a musical instrument during the bridge's 50th Anniversary celebration in 1987. He also wrote and produced an annual cable television variety show in the Bay Area from 1990 to 2010.
Being a multi-faceted, multi-tasking events coordinator and administrator, Doug McKechnie was appointed civilian spokesman for the annual San Francisco Fleet Week, 1990 - 1995.
McKechnie plays solo piano and sings with the Craig & MacGregor band in Berkeley at the Marsh Cabaret.
Beginning in 1970 and continuing into the '80s, McKechnie began creating scores for film, television and theater. He had by this point founded the music production house, Soundtracks in SF, creating music for films and videos, many of which won awards, including Emmys and Golden Eagles. McKechnie's team efforts were further rewarded by eventually having co-created musical scores lend accompaniment to two film projects that became Oscar-nominated, Spaceborne in 1977 and Women, For America, For the World, which won an Oscar in 1987. A generous team player, Doug openly shares credit with brilliant talent such as John Lewis and Joshua Raoul Brody.
Mr. McKechnie has served as Program Director for Intersection Theater, San Francisco-1977; Public Affairs liaison for Fort Mason (Arts) Center'78-'80; Event Producer, Oakland's annual Festival at the Lake'81-'84; and stepped in for two years as supervising Producer for the city's gala annual Beaux Arts Ball-'82-'83, hosted by the American Institute of Architects. McKechnie also created The San Francisco Synthesizer Ensemble-1984, a group of composers who created an international sensation by playing the Golden Gate Bridge as a musical instrument during the bridge's 50th Anniversary celebration in 1987. He also wrote and produced an annual cable television variety show in the Bay Area from 1990 to 2010.
Being a multi-faceted, multi-tasking events coordinator and administrator, Doug McKechnie was appointed civilian spokesman for the annual San Francisco Fleet Week, 1990 - 1995.
McKechnie plays solo piano and sings with the Craig & MacGregor band in Berkeley at the Marsh Cabaret.