HEAD OF HAIR, WIGS & MAKE-UP
Nina Van Houten
DEPUTY HEAD OF HAIR, WIGS & MAKE-UP
Alice Townes
HAIR, WIGS & MAKE-UP ASSISTANTS
Charlotte Briscoe, Jacob Fessey, Cassie Murphie
HEAD OF SOUND
Chris Reid
DEPUTY HEAD OF SOUND
Rowena Edwards
SOUND NO. 3
Laura Caplin
SFX OPERATOR
Callum Donaldson
HEAD OF AUTOMATION
Josh Peters
DEPUTY HEAD OF AUTOMATION
Jamie Lawrence
AUTOMATION NO. 3
Jamie Robson
SHOW CHIEF LX
David Treanor
PERFORMER FLYING TECHNICIAN
Paul Gurney
CHAPERONES
David Russell, Eleanor Dowling
GENERAL MANAGEMENT
Sonia Friedman Productions
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Diane Benjamin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Pam Skinner
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Fiona Stewart
ASSISTANT PRODUCER
Ben Canning
GENERAL MANAGEMENT ASSISTANT
Max Bittleston
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Imogen Clare-Wood
MARKETING MANAGER
Laura Jane Elliott
REVENUE MANAGER
Mark Payn
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER (DEVELOPMENT)
Lucie Lovatt
DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT
Lydia Rynne
LITERARY ASSOCIATE
Jack Bradley
OFFICE ASSISTANT
Jordan Eaton
HOUSE SEATS ASSISTANT
Vicky Ngoma
BIOGRAPHIES OF THE ORIGINAL STORY TEAM
J.K. ROWLING
is the author of the seven Harry Potter novels, which have sold over 450 million copies and have been translated into 79 languages, and three companion books originally published for charity. She is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adults published in 2012, and, under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith, is the author of the Cormoran Strike crime series. J.K. Rowling is making her screenwriting debut and is a producer on the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a further extension of the wizarding world, due for release in November 2016.
JOHN TIFFANY
directed the stage adaptation of 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 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 American Repertory Theatre and on Broadway and The Ambassador at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. 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.
JACK THORNE
writes for theater, film, television, and radio. His theater credits include Hope and Let the Right One In, both directed by John Tiffany, The Solid Life of Sugar Water for the Graeae Theatre Company and the National Theatre, Bunny for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Stacy for the Trafalgar Studios, and 2nd May 1997 and When You Cure Me for the Bush. His adaptations include The Physicists for the Donmar Warehouse and Stuart: A Life Backwards for HighTide. On film his credits include War Book, A Long Way Down, and The Scouting Book for Boys. For television his credits include The Last Panthers, Don’t Take My Baby, This Is England, The Fades, Glue, Cast-Offs, and National Treasure. He won 2016 BAFTAs for Best Mini-Series (This Is England ’90) and Best Single Drama (Don’t Take My Baby), and in 2012 won Best Drama Series (The Fades) and Best Mini-Series (This Is England ’88).
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
All the actors from the Cursed Child workshops, Mel Kenyon, Rachel Taylor, Alexandria Horton, Imogen Clare-Wood, Florence Rees, Jenefer Tait, David Nock, Rachel Mason, Colin, Neil, Sonia, everyone at SFP and The Blair Partnership, Rebecca Salt from JKR PR, Nica Burns and all the staff at the Palace Theatre, and, of course, our incredible cast who helped shape every word.
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