Dale Smith
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- For the character Dale Smith in The Bill see Dale Smith (The Bill).
Dale Smith (born 1976) is a writer and playwright from Leicester, England but currently living and working in Manchester. He is most well-known for his novel Heritage, published by BBC Books as part of their Past Doctor Adventures range of novels based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. This was published in October 2002.
[edit] Work
His first published works were the short stories "Front Line" and "The Gallery" published in Marvel UK's Doctor Who Magazine in 1993 and 1994 respectively. At the time these were published, Smith was acting with Haithi Productions, a Leicester youth theatre group he was a member of with future ER cast member Parminder Nagra.
Following that, his radio play "Hello?" was broadcast on LBC and performed at the Cambridge Theatre. Subsequent plays were performed in London, Manchester and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival between 1994 and 1999. He is the winner of the Independent Radio Drama Productions (IRDP) Young Radio Playwright Competition 1994, and the Manchester Student Playwriting Competition 1998.
Before becoming a published Doctor Who books author, he wrote several fanfiction stories based on Doctor Who, published in several charity anthologies, fanzines and online. His most recent work is the novella The Albino's Dancer for the Telos Time Hunter range, which was published on 15 June 2006 and two short stories for Big Finish Productions, in the Short Trips collection The Solar System and in Collected Works, edited by Nick Wallace for Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield range.
