Episodes Broadcast: 2010

As a teenager, Adam Smith co-founded Vegetable Vision, an organisation which brought artistically-oriented youth together to collaborate and compete. One of the projects which emerged from Vegetable Vision saw Smith creating visuals for nightclubs and raves. In 1994, this work brought him into contact with electronic music pioneers the Chemical Brothers, and Smith was soon providing the graphic direction of their live shows. He began directing their music videos in 2004, and his clientele soon expanded to include other acts such as the Streets. Having attracted the notice of the television industry, Smith was recruited to direct four installments of Skins in 2007. The next year, he made six episodes of Little Dorrit.

At the same time, incoming Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat was seeking dynamic new directors for Matt Smith's first season as the Eleventh Doctor in 2010. Smith fit the bill perfectly; he handled the first story into production, The Time Of Angels / Flesh And Stone, and then the season premiere, The Eleventh Hour. In 2013, he and his long-time partner, furniture designer Martha Freud, welcomed a daughter called Nancy. Smith made his movie debut in 2016 with the crime drama Trespass Against Us starring Michael Fassbender and Brendan Gleeson. In 2019, he returned to television to direct the first two episodes of World On Fire.