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

Y Pris ''Y Pris'' (English: ''The Price'') is a Welsh television crime drama, produced by Tinopolis, Fiction Factory for Welsh public service television station S4C. The series, described in its tagline as "''The Sopranos'' by the seaside", is set in C ...

'', 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

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, Traverse Theatre, Pentabus Theatre and the

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. In 2024, the National Theatre will stage ''Nye'', Price's biographical play about Nye Bevan. 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''. He wrote for the

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firefighting drama ''

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'', and would work again with star

Jodie Whittaker Jodie Auckland Whittaker (born 17 June 1982) is an English actress. She is best known for her roles on television as Beth Latimer in ''Broadchurch'' (2013–2017) and the Thirteenth Doctor in ''Doctor Who'' (2017–2022, 2025). She came to pro ...

on the eleventh series of ''

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''. 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, '' The Tsuranga Conundrum'' (ultimately written by showrunner

Chris Chibnall Christopher Antony Chibnall (born 21 March 1970) is an English television writer and producer, best known as the creator and writer of the award-winning ITV (TV network), ITV mystery-crime drama ''Broadchurch'' (2013-17) and as the third showr ...

). He has also written the 2019 feature comedy ''How to Fake a War'', starring Jay Pharaoh, and the 2024 play '' Nye'' for the

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, starring

Michael Sheen Michael Christopher Sheen (born 5 February 1969) is a Welsh actor. After training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), he worked mainly in theatre throughout the 1990s with stage roles in ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1992), ''Don't Fool wi ...

as Nye Bevan.

Teaching

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

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Screenwriting MA.

References

External links

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