Tim Price

Tim Price

Category: Film, TV & Theatre, Theatre, Comedy
Agent: Nicky Lund

Tim Price is an Olivier-nominated writer. The former journalist from the South Wales Valleys was educated at Cardiff University, where he studied Philosophy and English Literature. As well as writing for stage and television, Tim runs a new writing company with friends called Dirty Protest.

Television credits

Original

Switch (ITV2) – Creator, Writer and Co-writer. Prime time 6 part comedy-drama, to be broadcast Autumn 2012.

Valley Cops (BBC) – Creator, Writer. Pilot episode commissioned for BBC Wales.

Y Pris (The Cocklefarmer, S4C)  Creator, Writer. 2 series, 21 episodes, broadcast 2007-08. Fiction Factory/S4C. * Best screenwriter * nomination at Bafta Cymru 2008. * Winner * Best drama at Celtic Film and TV Festival 2009. * Best drama * nomination for Prix Europa 2008.

Other credits

Eastenders, Casualty, Holby City, Doctors (BBC) – Broadcast 2010-11.

Secret Diary Of A Call Girl (ITV2), Sold! (ITV) River City (BBC Scotland) – Broadcast 2008-09.

The New Worst Witch (ITV), Herman And Sherman (Cartoon Network), Caerdydd (S4C) - Broadcast 2005-06.

Theatre

Tim is currently under commission to: The Royal Court Theatre, The Traverse Theatre, Michael Grandage Company, National Theatre Wales and the Royal National Theatre. 

Demos – The Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, April 2012

 **** The ScotsmanI predict a substantial future for this clever and timely show, which links a changing theatre culture to the evolving politics of our time, in ways we are only just beginning to understand.”

 **** The Herald Scotland “Demos has clearly tapped into something … There's clearly something happening here that's not just about power, but about people power.”

 The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning – National Theatre Wales, to be produced April 2012.

 **** The TelegraphConcentrated, compelling … this is a sympathetic portrait of a vulnerable young kid:

 **** The Western Mail  “Bold, brave [and]  topical … this is theatre as it’s meant to be – thought-provoking and entertaining.”

 Salt, Root and RoeDonmar Warehouse, Trafalgar Studios, November - Dec 2011.

 **** Sunday Telegraph SALT ROOT AND ROE feels like another tale to add to the canon of despairing Irish comedies. Except this story is Welsh, and in Tim Price, Wales has a young dramatist with the chops to set his country firmly on the theatrical map.”

**** Independent  Price's writing is amusingly alert to the absurdities that surround this heartbreaking situation.”

 **** Evening Standard  “[TIM PRICE] is a talent to watch, and the way in which he handles his delicate subject matter is powerful and original.”

 ***** The Western Mail  For 100 minutes, Price and his cast, well directed by Hamish Pirie, entrance their audience with a stunningly realistic view of life with mental illness.”

For Once – Debut play, Pentabus Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, July 2011, touring UK February 2012.

**** Evening Standard, Critics' Choice  An elegant, elegiac three-hander winds, with wry humour and occasional mineshafts of buried feeling... Impressive stuff all round”.

**** Time Out, Critics' Choice “Wry, compassionate and thought provoking.”

**** Financial Times “A funny, but deeply sympathetic piece... But it is also laugh-out-loud funny in places in Orla O’Loughlin’s deft production, a fine cast delivers it beautifully.” 

Will and George – Shortlisted for Verity Bargate Award – Soho theatre 2011

Café Cariad - Musical co-written with Greg Cullen, with music by Jak Poore. National Youth Theatre of Wales. Performed on tour of Wales 2007.