Born: 1978
Episodes Broadcast: 2018, 2020

London native Ed Hime was a Doctor Who fan in his youth, having particularly enjoyed Sylvester McCoy's Seventh Doctor. He began his professional career as a playwright in the late Nineties. Hime was writer-in-residence at the Hampstead Theatre from 2001 to 2002, and he branched out into radio with the award-winning The Incomplete Recorded Works Of A Dead Body in 2007. His first television work was on Skins in 2010. Hime was then recruited to write for Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor, for whom he developed the surreal It Takes You Away in 2018. He returned to Doctor Who the following season with Orphan 55. It was inspired by Hime's profound dedication to the cause of climate change, which had led to his arrest during a 2019 protest. Hime was also scheduled to write for Whittaker's third season, until the production restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic forced showrunner Chris Chibnall to abandon his original plans and develop the season-long Flux instead. Hime went on to write for The Watch, based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, as well as Lockwood & Co.