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. He also wrote and performed in the cable television programmes The Dave Saint Show and Tales of Uplift and Moral Improvement Messingham is also an actor. He went to drama school and have worked in the theatre.