Born: 16th December 1971
Episodes Broadcast: 2007-2008, 2010

Cardiff-born Ashley Way began his professional career as an assistant director during the Nineties. Spreading his creative wings, he co-wrote 2001's Askari, a movie starring Marlee Matlin, and then wrote and directed the 2003 Ron Perlman telefilm Hoodlum And Son. Way was soon recruited to the long-running Welsh soap opera Belonging, for which he would ultimately make sixteen episodes, as well as the medical drama Casualty. He began working with the Doctor Who team in 2005, initially on the interactive adventure Attack Of The Graske, which debuted that Christmas. Next came the thirteen TARDISodes which served as short preludes for each episode of the 2006 season.

Having won the confidence of showrunner Russell T Davies, Way was asked to direct two episodes for spin-off series Torchwood's first season in 2006, including the season finale, End Of Days. He returned for four more installments during its second season in 2008, including the season premiere, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and the climactic Exit Wounds, which wrote out main characters Toshiko Sato and Owen Harper. When Steven Moffat became Doctor Who's showrunner, he asked Way to direct The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood for the 2010 season, pitting Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor against the revamped Silurians. Way then handled four episodes of Doctor Who's other spin-off, The Sarah Jane Adventures, including Smith's appearance as the Doctor in 2010's Death Of The Doctor.

Way worked steadily during the 2010s, amassing credits on shows such as Merlin, Parch, Stella and Ripper Street. During the Twenties, his projects included episodes of White Lines, Viewpoint and Palomino.