• 2 x BAFTA-winning writer and producer of original interactive & immersive content
• A creative producer with over 20 years’ experience of developing digital content and strategies for major brands & broadcasters
• A director and key shareholder of two successful digital startups: NoHo Digital and XPT
• A successful writer for TV, radio, theatre, advertising, print & social media
• A podcaster with experience of recording & editing more than 100 episodes
• A digital media tutor/lecturer/course leader at leading UK educational institutions (Bournemouth University, Warwick University, NFTS)
Tim Wright is a writer, crossplatform producer, interactive consultant and tutor, who has worked at the cutting edge of digital media since 1994.
His writing credits include two BAFTA-winning interactive projects: the comedy self help disk ‘Mind Gym’ and web & email drama ‘Online Caroline’.
He also co-developed, devised and scripted the BAFTA-nominated science-learning Web drama ‘Planet Jemma’ and BAFTA-nominated online holiday farce ‘Mount Kristos’.
In 2004/5, he created the popular collaborative web fiction and Sony Award-nominated BBC Radio 4 play ‘In Search of Oldton’, pioneering the use of user generated content within a narrative fiction format.
He continued his relationship with Radio 4 contributing to a radical overhaul of Today’s website and social media accounts (2007/2008), whilst writing two further Afternoon Plays that involved online audience participation (‘Say What You Want To Hear’) (2010) as well as the audio drama ‘Blake in Lambeth’ (2016).
The web element of the popular public art project ‘The Telectroscope’ was co-developed and written by Tim (2008). He was the lead writer of the RSC’s Twitter drama ‘Such Tweet Sorrow’ – and in 2009 he completed ‘Kidmapped!’, an experiment in literary blogumentary, involving a 240-mile walk across Scotland and the use of geolocation and mobile media tools.
Recent writing credits include Prix Italia-winning online drama documentary, ‘Footballers United’, (2014), Google Hangout drama ‘Longitude’ and the Science Museum installation ‘The Web Storybox’ starring Sir Tim Berners Lee and Josie Long.
He was one of the first writers to develop an interactive drama format for Google Home & Amazon Echo smart speakers. He has also worked on cutting-edge immersive theatre projects with leading UK innovators such as Coney, Punchdrunk and The Other Way Works.
Tim podcasts with Lloyd Shepherd as The Curiously Specific Book Club (and previously as The Riddle of the Sands Adventure Club).
Tim has consulted and written for many high profile cross media projects in the entertainment industry (BBC Castaway Remote Control, BBC Spooks Mobile, Penguin’s Malice Box Quest, Channel 4 Lost Generation, CBBC Newsround, FilmFour Dreams of a Life) and also in the education and public information sectors (Creative Partnerships StorySpinner KS2&3 English project, English Heritage Belsay Hall Interactive, 4iP digital innovation fund, Science Museum Information Age gallery, NESTA Digital R& D Fund for the Arts).
Tim has been a producer-in-residence at Bournemouth University Media School and a Visiting Fellow. He was also an Associate Fellow of the Central for Cultural Policy Studies at Warwick University for more than 10 years.
He led the Creative Producing for Digital Platforms Diploma course at the National Film and TV School for 3 years – and in 2018 became the school’s first Acting Head of Immersive, helping to launch the National Centre for Immersive Storytelling.