Biography
Simon Block is a British screenwriter and playwright. He has written for television and film since the 1990s, including the Channel 4 drama The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall (2008) and the BBC film The Windermere Children (2020).
His other television credits include Home Fires (ITV, 2015–2016), for which he wrote multiple episodes and served as creator; The Eichmann Show (BBC, 2015); episodes of Lewis (ITV); and New Tricks (BBC). He co-wrote the feature film The Physician (2013). Block studied psychology at the University of Southampton, criminology at the University of Cambridge, and law at Middlesex University. His stage plays include adaptations of Everything Is Illuminated and The Knowledge.
