Cavan Scott is a
BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
writer of science fiction audio plays, best known for his collaborations with
Mark WrightMark Wright is a British writer of audio plays, best known for his collaborations with Cavan Scott. They first came to light writing as the writers of the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio play Project: Twilight, where they created the original villain Nimrod...
.
Scott and Wright first came to light writing as the writers of the
Big Finish ProductionsBig Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based on British cult science fiction properties...
Doctor WhoDoctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien time-traveller known as "the Doctor" who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box...
audio play
Project: TwilightProject: Twilight is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
, where they created the original villain
NimrodNimrod is a character in the Big Finish Productions audio plays Project: Twilight and Project: Lazarus written by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright, which are based on the British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
. Since then they have worked together on the
Fifth DoctorThe Fifth Doctor is the name given to the fifth incarnation of the fictional character known as the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who...
play
The Church and the CrownThe Church and the Crown is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Plot:...
and
Project: LazarusProject: Lazarus is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
, the sequel to
Twilight. In 2007, they edited the short story collection
Short Trips: The Ghosts of ChristmasShort Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The collection features stories set at Christmas in the past, present and future...
.
The writing duo's first novel,
Project: Valhalla, was published by Big Finish Productions in 2005, featuring Nimrod and other characters from their
Doctor Who plays.
Scott has also worked on solo projects, including a
Judge DreddJudge Joe Dredd is a comics character whose strip in the British science fiction anthology 2000 AD is the magazine's longest running . Dredd is a law enforcement officer in a violent city of the future where uniformed Judges combine the powers of police, judge, jury and executioner...
audio play for Big Finish's
2000 AD2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction-oriented comic. As a comics anthology it serialises a number of separate stories each issue and was first published by IPC Magazines in 1977, the first issue dated February 26...
line (
For King and Country) plus a
Tomorrow PeopleThe Tomorrow People is a children's science fiction television series, devised by Roger Price, which first ran between 1973 and 1979. The show was re-imagined between 1992 and 1995, this time with Roger Price as executive producer...
play,
The Warlock's Dance.
Scott also came up with the initial idea of the Big Finish Audio Play
Master, although couldn't write the play due to other work passing it to
Joseph LidsterJoseph Lidster is an English television writer best known for his work on Doctor Who spin-offs and for Big Finish.-Biography:His debut work was the audio play The Rapture for Big Finish in 2002...
.
The duo have worked on a
Tomorrow People audio
War of the Slarvians, due out in October 2007 but cancelled along with the entire
Tomorrow People range.
In May 2007 it was announced that Scott and Wright would be taking over as producers of the entire
Tomorrow People range as of series seven but following the series' cancellation they took over the as producers of the
Iris WildthymeIris Wildthyme is a fictional character best known from spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, appearing in short stories, novels and audio dramas...
audio series.
In addition to this, they are editing the December short story anthology from Big Finish, 'Doctor Who - The Ghosts of Christmas'.
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Cavan Scott is a
BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
writer of science fiction audio plays, best known for his collaborations with
Mark WrightMark Wright is a British writer of audio plays, best known for his collaborations with Cavan Scott. They first came to light writing as the writers of the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio play Project: Twilight, where they created the original villain Nimrod...
.
Biography
Scott and Wright first came to light writing as the writers of the
Big Finish ProductionsBig Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based on British cult science fiction properties...
Doctor WhoDoctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien time-traveller known as "the Doctor" who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box...
audio play
Project: TwilightProject: Twilight is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
, where they created the original villain
NimrodNimrod is a character in the Big Finish Productions audio plays Project: Twilight and Project: Lazarus written by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright, which are based on the British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
. Since then they have worked together on the
Fifth DoctorThe Fifth Doctor is the name given to the fifth incarnation of the fictional character known as the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who...
play
The Church and the CrownThe Church and the Crown is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Plot:...
and
Project: LazarusProject: Lazarus is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
, the sequel to
Twilight. In 2007, they edited the short story collection
Short Trips: The Ghosts of ChristmasShort Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The collection features stories set at Christmas in the past, present and future...
.
The writing duo's first novel,
Project: Valhalla, was published by Big Finish Productions in 2005, featuring Nimrod and other characters from their
Doctor Who plays.
Scott has also worked on solo projects, including a
Judge DreddJudge Joe Dredd is a comics character whose strip in the British science fiction anthology 2000 AD is the magazine's longest running . Dredd is a law enforcement officer in a violent city of the future where uniformed Judges combine the powers of police, judge, jury and executioner...
audio play for Big Finish's
2000 AD2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction-oriented comic. As a comics anthology it serialises a number of separate stories each issue and was first published by IPC Magazines in 1977, the first issue dated February 26...
line (
For King and Country) plus a
Tomorrow PeopleThe Tomorrow People is a children's science fiction television series, devised by Roger Price, which first ran between 1973 and 1979. The show was re-imagined between 1992 and 1995, this time with Roger Price as executive producer...
play,
The Warlock's Dance.
Scott also came up with the initial idea of the Big Finish Audio Play
Master, although couldn't write the play due to other work passing it to
Joseph LidsterJoseph Lidster is an English television writer best known for his work on Doctor Who spin-offs and for Big Finish.-Biography:His debut work was the audio play The Rapture for Big Finish in 2002...
.
The duo have worked on a
Tomorrow People audio
War of the Slarvians, due out in October 2007 but cancelled along with the entire
Tomorrow People range.
In May 2007 it was announced that Scott and Wright would be taking over as producers of the entire
Tomorrow People range as of series seven but following the series' cancellation they took over the as producers of the
Iris WildthymeIris Wildthyme is a fictional character best known from spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, appearing in short stories, novels and audio dramas...
audio series.
In addition to this, they are editing the December short story anthology from Big Finish, 'Doctor Who - The Ghosts of Christmas'. This is the duo third identification with Christmas after writing Christmas Spirit in Bernice Summerfield and the Dead Man Diaries and Be Forgot in Doctor Who - The Christmas Companion.
Scott is a full time editor for
BBC MagazinesBBC Magazines is the magazine publishing division of BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation.A list of the published magazines and the age groups they are targeted towards follows:-Adult:*BBC History*BBC Music...
and lives in Bath. His latest project is BBC
Countryfile
Countryfile is a British magazine style television programme produced by BBC Birmingham, first aired in 1988, which reports on rural and environmental issues within the United Kingdom...
Magazine which is launching in October 2007. In the past he has edited such diverse magazines as T3, Internetworks, Laptop Magazine, BBC Mindgames, Disney Big Time, Disney Girl and Jetix Magazine.
Novels and Books
- Project: Valhalla with Mark Wright (2005)
- "Doctor Who: Short Trips - Christmas Ghosts" with Mark Wright (editor)
Doctor Who
- Project: Twilight
Project: Twilight is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
with Mark Wright (2001)
- The Church and the Crown
The Church and the Crown is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Plot:...
with Mark Wright (2002)
- Project: Lazarus
Project: Lazarus is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
with Mark Wright (2003)
- The Prisoner of Peladon
The Prisoner of Peladon is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
with Mark Wright (2009)
The Tomorrow People
- The Warlock's Dance (2004)
- War of the Slarvians with Mark Wright (2007)