Simon Messingham is a British science fiction writer, and a comedy writer and performer, who has written six Doctor Who novels and another Doctor Who story released as a BBC Audio Drama. Messingham has also witten an original novel, Sirens, which was released in 2017.^[1] He also wrote and performed in the cable television programmes The Dave Saint Show^[2] and Tales of Uplift and Moral Improvement^[3] Messingham is also an actor. He went to drama school and have worked in the theatre.^[4]