Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Frank Cottrell-Boyce (born 23 September 1959 ) wrote the Doctor Who television stories In the Forest of the Night and Smile.

Outside of Doctor Who, Cottrell-Boyce is a children's novelist, as well as a screenwriter. He wrote the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympic Games, which he based on Shakespeare's The Tempest. Cottrell-Boyce has won two major awards for children's books, and various other awards for scripts and screenplays he's written.

His 2004 novel, and the concurrent , also written by Cottrell-Boyce, won him the 2004 Carnegie Medal (for the book), and the British Independent Film Award for best screenplay (for the film). His next novel,, in 2005, was shortlisted for many awards and prizes. In 2011, Cottrell-Boyce was commissioned to write sequels to Ian Fleming's literary classic, beginning with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again.