# John Dorney

John Dorney is a British writer and actor best known for stage roles at theatres including the National Theatre, the BBC Radio 4 sitcom My First Planet; and his scripts for the Big Finish Doctor Who range. His script Solitaire was rated the most popular Doctor Who Companion Chronicle of 2010 on the Timescales website and was the runner up in Unreality Sci-fi net's poll for Story of the Year 2010–11. His script Iterations of I won the Scribe Award for best spin-off audio drama of 2014 and his script “The Red Lady” won the same award in 2015. His script “Absent Friends” won a BBC Audio Drama award, and the co-authored script for ‘Stranded 1’ won an Audie.
As well as Doctor Who, he has written for Big Finish's Sapphire and Steel series and on radio co-wrote three series of BBC Radio 4's Recorded for Training Purposes. He won the BBC Show Me the Funny 'Sketch Factor' competition, was a finalist in the BBC 'Laughing Stock' competition, and has performed in Mark Watson's Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning long shows as 'The Balladeer'. On stage, he has written plays for the Royal Court Theatre, Hampstead and Soho Theatres.
He trained at LAMDA.

## Writing credits

| Production | Company/Broadcaster | Notes/Dates |
| Doctor Who: Monsters in Metropolis | Big Finish Productions | Writer, November 2021 |
| Doctor Who: Dalek Universe | Big Finish Productions | Writer (Three Episodes) Script Editor, 2021 |
| Donna Noble Kidnapped: Spinvasion | Big Finish Productions | Writer, March 2020 |
| Recorded for Training Purposes | BBC Radio 4 | Co-writer, three series |
| Missy: Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated | Big Finish Productions | Writer, February, 2019 |
| Torchwood: See No Evil | Big Finish Productions | Writer, October 2018 |
| Doctor Who: Ravenous | Big Finish Productions | Writer (Eight Episodes) 2018 - 2019 |
| The Diary of River Song: Five Twenty Nine | Big Finish Productions | Writer, Jan 2017 |
| Doctor Who: Infamy of the Zaross | Big Finish Productions | Writer 2017 |
| Doctor Who: Original Sin | Big Finish Productions | Writer (based on the novel by Andy Lane), December 2016 |
| The New Counter-Measures: Who Killed Toby Kinsella? | Big Finish Productions | Writer, July 2016 |
| Doctor Who: The Trouble with Drax | Big Finish Productions | Writer, June 2016 |
| Doctor Who: The Two Masters | Big Finish Productions | Writer, June 2016 |
| Doctor Who: Doom Coalition 2: Scenes from Her Life | Big Finish Productions | Writer, March 2016 |
| Doctor Who: Infernal Devices: Legion of the Lost | Big Finish Productions | Writer, February 2016 |
| Doctor Who: You Are the Doctor and Other Stories | Big Finish Productions | Co-Writer, December 2015 |
| Doctor Who: Doom Coalition: The Red Lady | Big Finish Productions | Writer, October 2015 |
| Doctor Who: Waiting for Gadot | Big Finish Productions | Writer, September 2015 |
| Doctor Who: Terror of the Sontarans | Big Finish Productions | Writer (with Dan Starkey), September 2015 |
| Counter-Measures: Rise and Shine | Big Finish Productions | Writer, July 2015 |
| Doctor Who: The Well-Mannered War | Big Finish Productions | Writer (based on the novel by Gareth Roberts), April 2015 |
| Doctor Who: Requiem for the Rocket Men | Big Finish Productions | Writer, March 2015 |
| Doctor Who: Dark Eyes 4 | Big Finish Productions | Writer (with Matt Fitton), March 2015 |
| Doctor Who: The English Way of Death | Big Finish Productions | Writer (based on the novel by Gareth Roberts), Jan 2015 |
| Doctor Who: Iterations of I | Big Finish Productions | Writer, August 2014 |
| Counter-Measures: Unto the Breach | Big Finish Productions | Writer, July 2014 |
| Doctor Who: Second Chances | Big Finish Productions | Writer, June 2014 |
| Doctor Who: The Crooked Man | Big Finish Productions | Writer, March 2014 |
| Doctor Who: The King of Sontar | Big Finish Productions | Writer, Jan 2014 |
| Doctor Who: 1963: The Assassination Games | Big Finish Productions | Writer, November 2013 |
| Doctor Who: The Lost Stories – Lords of the Red Planet | Big Finish Productions | Writer (based on the outline by Brian Hayles), November 2013 |
| Counter-Measures: Sins of the Fathers | Big Finish Productions | Writer, July 2013 |
| Doctor Who: The Justice of Jalxar | Big Finish Productions | Writer, March 2013 |
| Doctor Who: The Burning Prince | Big Finish Productions | Writer, September 2012 |
| Jago and Litefoot: Beautiful Things | Big Finish Productions | Writer, March 2012 |
| Doctor Who: The Wrath of the Iceni | Big Finish Productions | Writer, March 2012 |
| Doctor Who: The Fourth Wall | Big Finish Productions | Writer, February 2012 |
| Doctor Who: The Lost Stories – The Foe from the Future | Big Finish Productions | Writer (based on the outline by Robert Banks Stewart), January 2012 |
| Doctor Who: The Lost Stories – The Elite | Big Finish Productions | Writer (based on the outline by Barbara Clegg), October 2011 |
| Doctor Who: The Rocket Men | Big Finish Productions | Writer, August 2011 |
| Jago and Litefoot: Swan Song | Big Finish Productions | Writer, June 2011 |
| Doctor Who: The Lost Stories – The Destroyers | Big Finish Productions | Based on a script for an unproduced pilot by Terry Nation, co-adapted with Nicholas Briggs, December 2010 |
| Bernice Summerfield: Present Tense – The Propaganda War | Big Finish Productions | Writer 2010 |
| Bernice Summerfield: Dead Man's Switch | Big Finish Productions | Writer with Richard Dinnick, December 2010 |
| Doctor Who: The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories | Big Finish Productions | Co-writer, December 2010 |
| Doctor Who: Echoes of Grey | Big Finish Productions | Writer, August 2010 |
| Doctor Who: Solitaire | Big Finish Productions | Writer, June 2010 |
| Sapphire and Steel: Remember Me | Big Finish Productions | Writer, 2008 |
| Doctor Who: Lepidoptery for Beginners | Big Finish Productions | Writer, 2008 |
| Cowboys | Royal Court Theatre | Writer, October 2000 |

## Acting credits (selected)

| Production | Company/Broadcaster | Role | Notes/Dates |
| The Omega Factor | Big Finish Productions | Adam Dean | 2015 |
| Doctor Who: The Light at the End | Big Finish Productions | Bob Dovie | 2013 |
| My First Planet | BBC Radio 4 | Richard | 2012 |
| Doctor Who: The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories | Big Finish Productions | Janson Hart | 2010 |
| Doctor Who: Farewell, Great Macedon | Big Finish Productions | Alexander the Great | 2010 |
| Doctor Who: The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance | Big Finish Productions | Rhythm | 2010 |
| Doctor Who: A Death in the Family | Big Finish Productions | Henry Noone | 2010 |
| The Caretaker | London Classic Theatre | Mick | Touring 2010 |
| Humble Boy | London Classic Theatre | Felix Humble | Touring 2008-2009 |
| Peter Pan | National Theatre | Nibs | 1998–1999 |
| Flight | National Theatre | Cossack | 1998 |
| Something Beginning With... | Orange Tree | Harry | 2000 |
| Volpone | Wilton's Music Hall | Corvino | 2005 |
| Beauty and the Beast | Creation Theatre Company | The Beast | 2009 |
| Honolulu | Pleasance Courtyard | Milo | 2004 |
| Better Watch Out | Hampstead Theatre | Matt Cooper | 2003 |