Ashley Way
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.
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