Born: 1964
Episodes Broadcast: 2009, 2011

Merseyside native John Fay made his start as a playwright, including an association with the Kirkby Response Theatre during the Nineties. Having long aspired to work in television, he finally earned a place on the writing staff for the soap opera Brookside around the turn of the century. Fay later moved on to programmes like Clocking Off, Blue Murder and Coronation Street, on which he became the lead writer; he also developed the thriller Mobile. In 2009, he contributed two installments to the acclaimed five-part epic Children Of Earth for the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood. Fay returned to Torchwood for its final season, writing 2011's penultimate episode, The Gathering. His credits during the 2010s included Moving On, for which he had the opportunity to direct one of his scripts. Fay also co-created the historical drama The Mill and wrote for Medici.