Timothy X Atack

Hello. I'm a writer, composer, and sound designer.

Writing includes:

Father Alberto and the Flying Girl (novel, Chatto & Windus) DELAY (stage play, Bristol Old Vic, Nick Hern Books) Babel's Cupid (stage play, runner-up Yale Drama Series prize 2021) Forest 404 (audio drama, BBC Sounds, winner of the WGGB and ARIA awards for best radio drama 2020) Heartworm (stage play, winner of the Bruntwood Prize for playwriting 2017)The Morpeth Carol (audio drama, BBC Radio 4, winner of the Radio Academy award for best drama 2014).

I took part in the Channel 4 4Screenwriting and BBC TV Drama Writers' Programme, I'm a contributor to The Verb on BBC Radio, and was a writer on attachment at National Theatre Studio 2022-24.

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Composing and sound design for theatre, screen and other media includes:

Scores for BBC Radio and TV, Channel 4 TV, Paramount UK, Bristol Old Vic, Royal Exchange Theatre, Tobacco Factory Theatres; collaborating with Raucous, Neil Bartlett, Selina Thompson, Edgar Wright, Nikesh Shukla, Duncan Speakman, and Nik Partridge among many others. I've been composing sound designer for all Sleepdogs-produced projects to date.

I make solo music under the name TXA and I'm in the Bristol bands Angel Tech and North Sea Navigator, producing and co-producing albums by both.

Please have a wander around the projects page for more info on all the above.

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Writing and sound workshops, masterclasses, mentoring, talks, and critical writing:

For English Heritage / Ginkgo Projects, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, UWE, Bristol Old Vic, Lyric Hammersmith, Almeida, Theatre Bristol, 4Screenwriting, Action Hero, Audiocraft, Watershed, Realtime Magazine, Terrestrial, Viola Bruni, Adam Bradley, Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley, and many others.

For scriptwriting, original music, and sound design,
I'm represented by Emily Wraith at Berlin Associates

For books and book rights,
I'm represented by Rachel Goldblatt at Curtis Brown

I'm a resident at Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed, Bristol

I'm rarely on socials but have Bluesky and Instagram accounts

And, worth saying:
I am not Tim Atack, the composer of soundtracks for Cemetary Junction and Among Giants amongst many many others. Despite ongoing IMDb and AI-related confusions, Tim is another person entirely, with his own hopes, dreams, face, and probably a different blood group.

Some words on my work:

"Profound and strange and utterly original. A book about madness and miracles, faith and pain, human frailty and human kindness - you have to read it to believe it."
RACHEL SEIFFERT, author of Once the Deed is Done, on Father Alberto and the Flying Girl

"I've rarely read anything so vivid and empathetic, so gentle and yet utterly heartbreaking. It's historical fiction with a modern message, but not in a way that feels trite. It's religious but in a firmly human way. And it's about love, but there's no twee romance in sight."
TABITHA STANMORE, author of Cunning Folk, on Father Alberto and the Flying Girl

"I was absorbed by every sight and sound on the page. Maybe not since Alan Garner or Peter Ackroyd has a word-dream of the past been conjured with such moving and brilliant magic."
TOM BENN, author of Oxblood, on Father Alberto and the Flying Girl

“Fabulously mysterious, with a lead character who leaped off the page.”
RUSSELL T DAVIES on Heartworm

“… bursting with fresh ideas and sparkling dialogue… [Salvation Nine] pushes the boundaries of the Doctor Who universe into unknown territory… In less than 60 minutes, everything is changed. The Doctor is different, the Sontarans are different, we are different. Simply astounding.”
JAMIE LENMAN in Doctor Who Magazine, on Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Salvation Nine

“Delicate and simple, but still majestic.”

“A sum that is greater than its beautifully compelling and brilliant parts.”

“Impossible not to fall head over heels, totally and utterly in love with this.”

“One of the UK’s best-kept secrets… shimmeringly beautiful and lyrically savvy… makes me want to cry tears of unabashed joy.”
NME, DJ magazine, SUBBA-CULTCHA, and SPILL magazine on the music of Angel Tech