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Jack Thorne

Playwright

His theater credits include King Kong (Broadway Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Old Vic), Woyzeck (Old Vic), Junkyard (a Headlong, Rose Theatre Kingston, Bristol Old Vic and Theatr Clwyd co-production), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (SFP Productions/Harry Potter West End Theatrical), The Solid Life Of Sugar Water (Graeae Theatre Company, Edinburgh Festival & UK Tour), Hope (Royal Court Theatre), Let The Right One In (Dundee Rep / Royal Court Theatre, NTS / Marla Rubin Productions Ltd), The Borough (Punchdrunk / Aldeburgh Festival), Stuart: A Life Backwards (adapt. Hightide / Sheffield Theatre – Edinburgh Festival & UK tour), Mydidae (Drywrite – Soho Theatre / Trafalgar Studios), The Physicists (adapt. Donmar Warehouse), Bunny (Nabokov – UK tour / NYC), Red Car Blue Car, Two Cigarettes, When You Cure Me (Bush Theatre), Greenland (National Theatre), 2nd May 1997 (Bush / Nabokov), Burying Your Brother in the Pavement (NT Connections), Stacy (Tron /Arcola / Trafalgar Studios) and Fanny and Faggot (Pleasance Edinburgh / Finborough / Trafalgar Studios). On film his credits include Wonder, War Book, A Long Way Down and The Scouting Book for Boys. Upcoming releases include Radioactive, The Secret Garden, The Aeronauts and Dirt Music. For television his credits include “Kiri,” “National Treasure,” “The Last Panthers,” “Don’t Take My Baby,” “This Is England,” “The Fades,” “Glue” and “Cast-Offs.” In 2017 he won a BAFTA and an RTS Television award for Best Mini-Series (“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 Series (“The Fades”) and Best Serial (“This Is England ’88”). Upcoming projects include “The Eddy” and “The Light.”