Stephen Thompson (writer)

Stephen Thompson (born 1967), sometimes credited as Steve Thompson, is a British playwright and screenwriter.

For the British songwriter, see Steve Thompson (songwriter).

Stephen Thompson
Born1967 (age 52–53)
NationalityBritish
Occupationscreenwriter, playwright
Known forSherlock, Jericho

Prior to writing he was a maths teacher at Tiffin School.[1] 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.[2]

Career

In 2005 he was made Pearson writer in residence at The Bush Theatre where his next play Whipping It Up was also performed. Roaring Trade was performed by Paines Plough at the Soho Theatre.[3] His most recent play No Naughty Bits was performed at Hampstead Theatre in September 2011.[4]

His first credit for television came on the medical soap Doctors in 2005. Since then, he has contributed scripts for several popular shows, including Silk, Upstairs Downstairs, Doctor Who and the first three seasons of Sherlock (both in collaboration with Steven Moffat). In 2016, he created the period drama series Jericho, which re-imagines the building of the Ribblehead Viaduct. In April 2016 ITV confirmed that a second series of Jericho was not going to be commissioned.[5]

On 3 October 2018 it was announced that Thompson would be teaming with Frank Spotnitz to develop a drama about Leonardo da Vinci.[6] On 17 February 2019 it was revealed that Thompson was developing an adaptation of Runestaff for BBC.[7] On 16 August 2019, the BBC announced they would broadcast Thompson's adaptation of the popular Liebermann novels by Frank Tallis, Vienna Blood.[8]

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
Sherlock BBC One
Silk
  • Episode 1.5 (2011)
 BBC One
Doctor Who BBC One
Upstairs Downstairs
  • All The Things You Are (2012)
 BBC One
Sinbad
  • House of Games (2012)
 Sky1
Jericho
  • Series creator, all episodes (2016)
 ITV
Deep State
  • Reunion (2018)
  • Stories (2018)
  • The New Normal (Co-written with Matthew Parkhill) (2019)
 Fox
Vienna Blood
  • Series creator (2019)
 BBC Two

References
  1. http://www.tiffinfriends.org/design/pdfs/TiffNews%20Bulletin%20-%20March%281%29.pdf
  2. Steve Thompson Profile in The Guardian, Retrieved 3 August 2010
  3. Steve Thompson - complete guide to the Playwright, Plays, Theatres, Agent
  4. New play by Steve Thompson exploring the English sense of humour at Hampstead Theatre | Fringe Theatre review
  5. "Yorkshire Dales-set TV series Jericho is axed by ITV bosses". Craven Herald & Pioneer. 13 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  6. https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/frank-spotnitz-developing-leonardo-da-vinci-series-the-alliance-1202966792/
  7. https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2019/02/the-bbc-announces-fantasy-adaptation-runestaff/
  8. https://variety.com/2019/tv/global/bbc-vienna-blood-sherlock-red-arrow-matthew-beard-juergen-maurer-1203304592/


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