Simon Donald

Simon Donald is an award-winning writer for stage and screen, whose play The Life of Stuff earned him both the Evening Standard Best Playwright Award and the London Critics Award for Best New Play when it was produced at the Traverse Theatre in 1993.

In 2006, Simon wrote the television thriller Low Winter Sun, which starred Mark Strong and won the RTS Award for Best Drama Serial, as well as being nominated for a host of other awards. 

He has since gone on to write on the critically acclaimed mini-series, Wallander, as well as developing his own six-parter, The Deep, with Tiger Aspect and the BBC.  

Simon is currently developing his own 13-part series for Tiger Aspect and Sky called Fortitude.