Alan McKendrick is a Scottish writer, director and translator working across theater, film, and opera.  

Work as a writer/director includes an adaptation of Alexander Trocchi's cult novel Cain's Book (Untitled Projects/Arches); nuclear proliferation satire Finished With Engines (Arches/Traverse); video-theatre work The Mass Launching of Jawline Sabbatical (BBC/Hopscotch Films/National Theatre of Scotland); and sci-fi jailbreak avant-rock musical Cadaver Police in Quest of Aquatraz Exit (Staatstheater Nürnberg/National Theatre of Scotland). 

Writing projects include Oh Graveyard, You Can't Hold Me Always (RCS); Ophelia (Òran Mór); The Eye (Untitled Projects); and All Howl at Once (Aldeburgh Festival), a goth song cycle for goth and non-goth children. 

McKendrick has made further work with various organizations including Bayerische Staatsoper, Malmö Opera, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, HAU Berlin, Glasgow International, GoMA, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, La Nuova Musica, Opera Philadelphia and Riot Group.