Tim Price is a Welsh screenwriter and playwright. He created the Welsh crime drama ''

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'', which ran for two series on S4C, and the fantasy series ''

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''.

Career

Price worked as a journalist and designer on weekly newspapers, like the ''Pontypridd Observer''. Price's stage plays include ''Salt, Root and Roe'' (nominated for an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an affiliate theatre), about two sisters who make a suicide pact, ''I'm With the Band'', about an indie band, and his commission for the second season of the National Theatre Wales tour, ''The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning'' (winner of the James Tait Black Award best play). He also wrote the biographical play ''Praxis Makes Perfect'', about Italian communist Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. He has had work performed at the Barbican, Traverse Theatre, Pentabus Theatre and the

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. Price has written extensively for television, including popular series such as ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

The New Worst Witch ''The New Worst Witch'' is a television series, based on Jill Murphy's ''The Worst Witch'' books, about a group of young witches at a Witch Academy. It ran for two series from 2005 to 2007. The series was a spin-off from ''The Worst Witch'' TV ...

''. He wrote for the Sky1 firefighting drama ''

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'', and would work again with star

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on the eleventh series of '' Doctor Who''. He was involved in the writers room of the series, contributing ideas, but had to bow out due to other commitments. He was credited for creating the alien Pting for the fifth episode, ''

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'' (ultimately written by showrunner

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). He has also written the comedy ''How to Fake a War'', starring

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Teaching

He joined the Centre for New Writing in 2015 and teaches on the

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Screenwriting MA.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Price, Tim Living people 21st-century British male writers British dramatists and playwrights British male dramatists and playwrights British soap opera writers British television writers British male screenwriters British science fiction writers Welsh television writers Welsh dramatists and playwrights British male television writers Screenwriting instructors Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century British screenwriters