About Tim Firth

Tim was born and has lived his entire life in the North West of the UK. He was educated at Appleton Hall School in Warrington then at King’s College, Cambridge where he set up a theatre company with Sam Mendes and wrote for the Footlights comedy team, with whom he later created the award-winning radio series And Now In Colour on Radio 4.

Tim’s theatre credits include Now Is Good (Chester Storyhouse, UK Theatre Nomination Best New Musical),  This Is My Family (Sheffield Crucible, UK Theatre Award Best New Musical), Neville’s Island (Nottingham Playhouse and West End, Evening Standard & Olivier nomination, MEN Award), The Safari Party (Stephen Joseph, Scarborough and Hampstead), the musical Our House (West End, Olivier Award Best Musical), The Flint Street Nativity (Liverpool Playhouse) and Sign Of The Times (West End). His play Calendar Girls (Chichester Festival Theatre, West End) broke all British records for a professional and amateur play, was nominated for an Olivier and won the Whatsonstage Best Comedy Award. Calendar Girls The Musical, co-written with Gary Barlow, opened at Leeds Opera house and transferred to the Phoenix Theatre, winning a Whatsonstage Award and an Olivier nomination, and his musical The Band  (Manchester Opera House, West End) won the MEN best Musical award.  Tim recently collaborated with Gary Barlow on the show A Different Stage (West End).

Tim’s film credits include Blackball, Calendar Girls (British Comedy Award), Kinky Boots  (Best International Film, Florida FF) The Wedding Video and Greatest Days.

Work for television includes the Playhouse drama Timeless. His other TV credits include Money For Nothing (Writer’s Guild Award), Once Upon A Time In The North, Cruise Of The Gods, The Flint Street Nativity, Preston Front (Writer’s Guild Award, British Comedy Award, RTS Award, BAFTA nomination), His children’s comedy series  The Rottentrolls won a BAFTA and was recently voted by Radio Times one of the top fifty children’s shows of all time.