Stephen Thompson (writer)

Stephen Thompson
Born	1967 (age 57–58)
Nationality	British
Occupation	playwright and screenwriter

Stephen Thompson (born 1967), sometimes credited as Steve Thompson, is a British playwright and screenwriter. He trained on the RADA playwrights' course, and his first play, Damages, was performed at the Bush Theatre in 2004, winning the Meyer-Whitworth Award for new writing. In 2005 he was made Pearson writer in residence at The Bush where his next play Whipping It Up was also performed. Roaring Trade was performed by Paines Plough at the Soho Theatre. His latest play No Naughty Bits was performed at Hampstead Theatre in September 2011.

For television, he has contributed scripts for shows including Doctor Who, Sherlock and Upstairs Downstairs.

Prior to writing he was a maths teacher at Tiffin School.

Bibliography

• Damages, Josef Weinberger Plays, 2004.
• Whipping It Up, Nick Hern Books, 2006.
• Roaring Trade, Nick Hern Books, 2009.
• No Naughty Bits, Nick Hern Books, 2011.

Television writing credits

Production	Notes	Broadcaster
Doctors	Criminal Negligence (2005) Sport for All (2005)	BBC One
The Whistleblowers	No Child Left Behind (2007)	ITV
Doctor Who	"The Curse of the Black Spot" (2011) "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS" (2013) "Time Heist" (Co-written with Steven Moffat) (2014)	BBC One
Silk	Episode 1.5 (2011)	BBC One
Sherlock	"The Blind Banker" (2010) "The Reichenbach Fall" (2012) "The Sign of Three" (Co-written with Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat) (2014)	BBC One
Upstairs Downstairs	All The Things You Are (2012)	BBC One
Sinbad	House of Games (2012)	Sky1
Jericho	Series (2016)	ITV

External links

• Steve Thompson at the Internet Movie Database