Jack Thorne (Writer)

Jack Thorne is one of Britain’s most successful writers for both stage and screen.

His acclaimed, award-winning work includes Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Motive and the Cue, Let the Right One In, and The Old Vic’s A Christmas Carol for the stage; and on-screen drama including Adolescence, Toxic Town and Help.

Jack Thorne’s playwriting credits include include When Winston Went To War With The Wireless (Donmar Warehouse), The Motive And The Cue (National Theatre, West End, Broadway), 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.

Jack Thorne’s work for television has won him five BAFTAs. Recent successes include Adolescence and Toxic Town, both for Netflix.

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.

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