Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

J.K. ROWLING is the author of the enduringly popular, era-defining Harry Potter book series, as well as several stand-alone novels and a crime fiction series written under the pen name Robert Galbraith.

The seven Harry Potter books were made into eight smash hit movies, and have now sold over 600 million copies worldwide and been translated into 80 languages. One of the series’ companion volumes written by J.K. Rowling for charity, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, was the inspiration for a new film series, begun in 2016, with screenplays written or co-written by Rowling, the latest of which was released in 2022.

In 2020, she returned to publishing for younger children with her fairy tale The Ickabog, which was serialised for free online during the Covid-19 pandemic. Her most recent children’s novel The Christmas Pig was published in 2021.

Jack Thorne’s plays include When Winston Went To War With The Wireless (Donmar Warehouse), The Motive And The Cue (National Theatre and West End), After Life (National Theatre), A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic/ Broadway/The Old Vic: In Camera), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End/Broadway /international), Sunday (Atlantic Theatre), The End of History, Hope (Royal Court Theatre), King Kong (Broadway), Woyzeck (The Old Vic), Mydidae (Soho/West End), Stacy (Tron/Arcola/West End), Let the Right One In (West End/Dundee Rep/Royal Court Theatre), Junkyard (UK tour), The Solid Life of Sugar Water (Graeae/National Theatre/UK tour), Bunny (Nabokov/UK tour/New York), and Stuart: A Life Backwards (Sheffield Crucible/UK tour). His television includes Best Interests, Help, Then Barbara Met Alan, CripTales, The Eddy, The Accident, His Dark Materials, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, Kiri, National Treasure, The Last Panthers, Don’t Take My Baby, This Is England, The Fades, Glue, Cast Offs. Film includes: Joy, The Swimmers, Enola Holmes and Enola Holmes 2, The Secret Garden, The Aeronauts, Dirt Music, Radioactive, Wonder, War Book, A Long Way Down, and The Scouting Book for Boys. His work for television has won him five BAFTAs. He received an International Emmy Award for Help, which also won Best Drama at the 2021 Rose D’Or Awards. In 2022 Jack was the recipient of both the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain award for Outstanding Contribution to Writing, and the Royal Television Society’s award for Outstanding Contribution to British Television. In 2023 the National Film and Television School awarded him their honorary fellowship. Jack is a patron of Graeae Theatre Company, an associate artist of the Old Vic Theatre, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is a founding member of the pressure group Underlying Health Condition.

John Tiffany directed Once for which he was the recipient of multiple awards both in the West End and on Broadway. As Associate Director of the Royal Court, his work includes Road, The Twits, Hope and The Pass. He was the director of Let The Right One In for the National Theatre of Scotland, which transferred to the Royal Court, West End and St. Ann’s Warehouse. His other work for the National Theatre of Scotland includes Macbeth (also Broadway), Enquirer, The Missing, Peter Pan, The House of Bernarda Alba, Transform Caithness: Hunter, Be Near Me, Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us, The Bacchae, Black Watch, for which he won the Olivier and Critics’ Circle Best Director Awards, Elizabeth Gordon Quinn and Home: Glasgow. Other recent credits include The Glass Menagerie at A.R.T, on Broadway, EIF and in the West End, and The Ambassador at BAM. Tiffany was Associate Director of the National Theatre of Scotland from 2005 to 2012, and was a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University in the 2010-2011 academic year. For his work on Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, John received the Olivier Award for Best Director, one of a record-breaking nine Oliviers received by the production.

Steven Hoggett has previously collaborated with John Tiffany on Pinocchio (National Theatre); The Twits (Royal Court); Let The Right One In and Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland); The Glass Menagerie (A.R.T. and on Broadway); Once (Broadway and in the West End). Other recent credits include Sweeney Todd; A Beautiful Noise; American Idiot; Peter and the Starcatcher; The Last Ship; Rocky the Musical; The Crucible and Angels in America (on Broadway); Burn (National Theatre of Scotland); Social! The Social Distance Dance Club (Park Avenue Armory); Close to You (NYTW and in the West End); The Ocean at The End of the Lane and The Light Princess (National Theatre); Dr Dee (Manchester International Festival); Rigoletto (Metropolitan Opera). Hoggett was a founding co-artistic director of Frantic Assembly for which his credits include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Lovesong, Othello, Little Dogs, Beautiful Burnout, Stockholm, Pool (No Water) and Dirty Wonderland. His film credits include How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Dreamworks) and Freak Show (Maven Pictures). With Scott Graham, Steven co-wrote The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre (Routledge).

Jones is a multidisciplinary artist working in theatre, opera, fashion, public art, and the digital realm. She is the Creator and Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed THEATRE FOR ONE,. She is a Director of one of a kind experiences for companies like Rag & Bone, and productions such as Queen of the Night, (Drama Desk Award for Best Unique Experience). She is a Tony and Olivier Award-winning Scenographer for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and also won a Tony for American Idiot. Other design credits include: The Cher Show, Spring Awakening (Tony Nomination), and Let the Right One In, (St. Ann’s Warehouse and West End). Opera designs include: La Traviata and Rigoletto (MET). In the digital realm Jones curated Radiohead’s KID A MNESIA virtual art exhibit. During the pandemic she conceived and directed SOCIAL! Distance Dance Club, with Steven Hoggett and David Byrne which became the first post pandemic production at The Park Avenue Armory, . She has an Obie for Sustained Excellence in Design and teaches at NYU’s TISCH School of the Arts.

Katrina Lindsay is a multi-award winning costume designer working internationally in theatre, opera, film and ballet. Select Credits in Costume Designs include: the critically acclaimed global productions of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (London, New York, Melbourne, San Francisco, Hamburg, Toronto and Tokyo) for which she won the 2018 Tony Award and the 2017 Olivier Award for Outstanding Costume Design in Theatre; for director Sam Mendes The Motive and the Cue (Royal National Theatre and West End) and The Lehman Trilogy (West End, Broadway and worldwide); Mean Girls (West End); Tammy Faye (Almeida); 101 Dalmatians (Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park); Burn (National Theatre of Scotland and Edinburgh International Festival); American Psycho (Almeida Theatre and Broadway) (Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk nominations for Best Costume Design), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Broadway) (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award); Terry Gilliam’s opera productions of the Damnation of Faust and Benvenuto Cellini which have been performed worldwide; The Most Incredible Thing, a ballet composed by the Pet Shop Boys, at Sadler’s Wells and Charlotte Ballet and Hamlet (with Benedict Cumberbatch) at the Barbican. Katrina has designed for the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal Opera House, The Sydney Opera House, Chichester Festival Theatre and Young Vic amongst others. She is an Artistic Associate at the Royal National Theatre where her many designs include set and costumes for the international premiere of Andrea Levy’s Small Island and Hex, a new musical based on Sleeping Beauty. She was also production designer on the film of London Road. She is a recipient of an Arts Foundation Fellowship in Costume Design and her costume work has been featured in UK and US Vogue and at the V&A Museum, London and internationally.

Self-produced British recording artist for 30 years, Imogen Heap has released four solo albums and one as half of Frou Frou. With collaborators including Taylor Swift, Deadmau5, Nitin Sawhney, Jeff Beck and Jon Hopkins, her music appears in movies and TV shows, is sampled to the hilt with underground rap and dance music and features in one of the original memes, ‘Dear Sister.’ She has won two Grammys, an Ivor Novello and is recognised as a major pioneer in music innovation for her gestural music ware, the MiMu gloves system. Heap finds excitement in the potential of connecting her family life, creativity and AI companion to improve her sense of flow.

Neil Austin, Lighting Designer, is a triple Tony award and double Olivier award winner, designing internationally for plays, musicals, opera and dance. Neil’s recent West-End work includes: Shifters, The Pillowman, Medea, Harry Potter & the Cursed Child, Leopoldstadt, Company, The Night of the Iguana, Rosmersholm, Shakespeare in Love, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Red, Ink and The Goat. His Broadway work includes: Tammy Faye, Leopoldstadt, Company, Harry Potter & the Cursed Child Ink, Travesties, Hughie, A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Evita, Red, Hamlet, The Seafarer and Frost Nixon. He is also the recipient of two Drama Desk awards. 

Gareth Fry is a sound designer, best known for his cutting-edge work in theatre. His work includes productions for Complicité (National Theatre of Scotland at the National Theatre, Royal Court, Bridge Theatre, Old Vic, Young Vic, in the West End) and many more. He has also designed numerous exhibitions, such as the V&A’s David Bowie Is, Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser and Diva exhibitions, and events such as the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games.

He is a specialist in the use of spatial and binaural sound, used in Complicité’s The Encounter, the BBC’s The Dark Is Rising, numerous VR experiences, podcasts and advertising campaigns, including for Bose, Volvo and Land Rover. His work in VR has been featured at the Tribeca, Vienna and Sundance festivals.

He is a founder of, and spent 6 years as the chair of the Association of Sound Designers (now the ASDP), a charity that works to support people working in, and entering the UK theatre sound industry. Gareth is an honorary fellow of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He is the author of Sound Design for the Stage, published in 2019 by Crowood Press. Awards include three Olivier Awards, two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, two Helpmann Awards and an Evening Standard award.

Jamie is one of the world’s leading theatrical magic and illusion designers. Recent credits include Stranger Things (Phoenix Theatre); The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Noël Coward Theatre, transfer from The National Theatre), A Beautiful Noise (Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway); Pinocchio (The National Theatre). Jamie is also co-artistic director of Vox Motus and has co-created, co-directed, and designed the company’s work, most recently Flight (Vox Motus/Edinburgh International Festival) and Dragon (Vox Motus/National Theatre Scotland/Tianjin People’s Theatre, China). In 2017 Jamie was the recipient of the Edinburgh International Magic Festival’s Great Lafayette Award for outstanding contribution to stage magic.

Martin Lowe’s theatre credits include Once; Mamma Mia! (West End); Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, The Light Princess, War Horse, Caroline, or Change, Jerry Springer the Opera (all at the Royal National Theatre); Jedermann (Salzburg Festival); Abba Voyage (Abba Arena in London). Martin won a Tony, a Grammy and an Olivier award for his work on Once, and a Golden Reel award for his work on Mamma Mia! The Movie.