Cast & Creative

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.

Theatre includes: Obsession (Barbican); City of Glass (59 Prods);The Treatment, Hamlet, Mary Stuart, Oil, Uncle Vanya, Medea, Oresteia (also Trafalgar Studios), Game, Mr Burns, Chimerica (Almeida); Wings,  Life of Galileo, Why It’s Kicking off Everywhere, Once in a Lifetime, Yerma, Blue/Orange, A View from the Bridge (Young Vic/Wyndham’s/Broadway); Happy Days, Public Enemy, Wild Swans, Lost Highway, In The Red and Brown Water, Annie Get Your Gun (Young Vic); A Doll’s House (Young Vic/Duke of York’s/BAM); Adler & Gibb, Birdland, The Pass, The Nether, Clybourne Park, Kin, Tribes (Royal Court); The Events, The Golden Dragon (ATC); Six Characters in Search of an Author (CFT/West End/Sydney); Gaddafi, A Living Myth (ENO); Othello (Cheek by Jowl); The Girl on the Sofa (EIF/Schaubuhne).

Television and film include: The Exception; Departure; The Trial, Adha Cup, Parliamo Glasgow, Harvest (C4); Astoria (Young Vic). Julia is an Associate Artist at the Young Vic.

Theatre includes: The Weir (Lyceum Edinburgh); Junkyard (Headlong); The Island, Dirty Butterfly (Young Vic); Pests (Clean Break/Royal Court). Lotte worked in the Casting Department at the Royal Court from 2007-14.

Des is the Artistic Director of the Everyman theatre in Cork, Ireland. Credits as a director include Good Vibrations (Lyric Theatre Belfast, Grand Opera House Belfast, and Irish Arts Center New York) (New York Times Critic’s Pick); Piaf starring Camille O’Sullivan at the (Gate Theatre Dublin); Teenage Kicks at the (Millennium Forum Derry), White Star Of The North at (Lyric Theatre Belfast / Theatre Clwyd Cymru); How The World Began for Out of Joint at (The Arcola); God’s Country for (Tinderbox Belfast); The Prophet Of Monto at The Flea Off-Broadway, Woman and Scarecrow for (Solas Nua Washington DC), Johnny Meister and The Stitch at (Mead Theatre Lab Washington D.C), Dying City at (Project Arts Centre Dublin) (Rough Magic SEEDS) and Scenes From The Big Picture at (Callan Theatre, Washington D.C.) which was named one of the best 10 Theater productions of the decade byr Marks at the Washington Post. Associate Director credits include: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West-End/Broadway/Melbourne/Toronto/San Francisco/Tokyo/Hamburg); The Glass Menagerie (West End); Once (Phoenix/Dublin/Seoul Arts Center); The Nether (Duke of York’s); Top Girls, Our Country’s Good, A Dish of Tea with Dr Johnson, Bang Bang Bang (Out of Joint). Assistant Director: Now or Later (Royal Court); Crooked (Bush); The Elixir of Love (WNO). Television: 6 Degrees (BBC Northern Ireland).

Movement credits include: UK Resident Movement Director – Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Lyric, New York); As Associate Movement Director – Ragtime (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Tannhauser, Aida (Royal Opera House); Goalmouth (Botswana and Newcastle). Directing credits include: A Darker Shade of Fado (Greenwich Dance/UK tour); Soul of Fado (Without Walls, Greenwich/UK tour); Nufado, Pulsar, Ritmo Das Estações (Portugal). Performance credits include: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Original Company (Palace); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep); The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare’s Globe); Little Shop of Horrors (Royal Exchange Theatre – nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the Manchester Theatre Awards); The Light Princess (NT); Cabaret (Savoy); Maria De Buenos Aires (Cork Opera House); Dr Dee (Manchester International Festival/ENO); The Crane Maiden (Yokohama, Japan); An Anatomy in Four Quarters, The Most Incredible Thing (Sadler’s Wells); God’s Garden (Linbury/Royal Opera House – nominated Best Male Performer at the National Dance Awards); The Lessening of Difference (UK tour); Pleasure’s Progress (Royal Opera House).

BRETT J. BANAKIS (Int’l Scenic Supervisor) Brett is a designer for theater, opera, film, and environments based in Brooklyn, NY. Along with Christine Jones, Brett is a co-founder of AMP Scenography, a design collective created to amplify emerging and underrepresented designers by engaging in equitable collaborations. Broadway: The Outsiders (as AMP, Tony Nom.), The Notebook, The Cher Show. Other collaborations with Christine Jones include international productions of Let the Right One In (NTS), Close To You (Criterion) and Whorl Inside a Loop (Second Stage). International Scenic Supervisor for all worldwide productions of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Broadway, West End, Melbourne, San Francisco, Hamburg, Toronto, Tokyo, US Tour). Faculty member at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Daniel is predominantly a Lighting Programmer working in Theatre, TV, Film and Live Events.

As Lighting Programmer: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (London, New York, Melbourne, San Francisco, Hamburg, Tokyo), Moulin Rouge! (London, Cologne, Seoul), Disney’s Frozen (London), Just For One Day (Old Vic), 52nd Union Day Celebration (UAE), Gucci Cosmos (London), The Lehman Trilogy (Gillian Lynne).

As Desk Operator: The Meg 2, All The Devils Are Here, Too Much.

The Encounter (co-designed with Gareth Fry). Winner of Special Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Sound Design, The Tempest (Donmar Warehouse/St. Ann’s Warehouse), The Kid Stay in the Picture (Complicité/Royal Court), Beware of Pity (Complicité/Schaubühne), Twelfth Night (Royal Exchange Manchester), The Seagull (Lyric Hammersmith), Frogman (Curious Directive), Am I Dead Yet?  (Unlimited Theatre), Andrea Chenier (Opera North), Farragut North (Southwark Playhouse). As associate: 1984 (West End/Broadway), Oresteia (Trafalgar studios), Complicité’s productions of The Magic Flute (ENO) and Lionboy (International Tour), and Hamlet (RSC). Pete also worked with Gareth Fry on the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony (assistant soundscape designer).

Chris Fisher is a member of The Magic Circle. He works worldwide as International Illusions and Magic Associate for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. His work in theatre as illusion designer includes Paranormal Activity (Leeds Playhouse); Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Phoenix Theatre), Back to The Future: The Musical (Broadway & Adelphi Theatre), The Ghost and the Lady (Tokyo), The Witches (National Theatre), Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (Leeds Playhouse & UK tour), The Time Travellers Wife (Apollo Theatre), The Prince of Egypt (Dominion Theatre), The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Gillian Lynne, UK Tour), 2.22 A Ghost Story (Noël Coward, Melbourne, LA), Peter Gynt, Here We Go, Treasure Island, Julie and Angels in America (also on Broadway) at the National Theatre, Big the Musical (Dominion), Wicked Das Musical at Neue Flora Theater, Hamburg; Company (Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, NY & Gielgud Theatre, London), Merlin for Northern Ballet, Bedknobs & Broomsticks (UK tour), Superhero at the Tony Kiser, New York, Barnum (Menier Chocolate Factory), The Hypocrite (RSC at the Swan and Hull Truck), Into the Woods and The Skriker (Royal Exchange Theatre)

Training: Nicola has trained in theatre, design and fine art. Training includes MA Theatre Directing (Middlesex University, London & GITIS, Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, Moscow), Lincoln Centre Theatre Directors’ Lab (New York), NIDA (Sydney), ROH attachment (London), B. Design Visual Communications (UTS & Central Saint Martins) and Fine Art (Slade, London).

As Director: 39 STEPS (2024 Revival QTH, UK Tour & West End); Broken Water (Arcola), The Theatre Ashes (The Festival, Hampstead Theatre); Uprooted (Look Left Look Right, Shoreditch Town Hall); Head of The Table (Old Vic Lab); Gutted (Marlowe Theatre); As You Like It (RYV Theatre, Regional Tour); Prophecy (Look Left Look Right, Charter House); Much Ado About Nothing (The HandleBards; Assembly Rooms, National & International Tour – The Stage Awards nominee), Going Bush (Bush Theatre); Comedy of Errors (RYV Theatre, Regional Tour); The Suicide Shop (St James Theatre); The Power of Poison Lab (Old Truman Brewery); Miracle On 34th STREET (Premiere UK Tour); Ruben Guthrie (New Wimbledon; COLLISION (Latitude & Bestival); EARTHWORKS (Arcola); LITTLE WOMEN, The Musical (West end); FIGARO Revival (Buxton Opera Festival); IronBark’s Theatre Ashes (Latitude); Maman and The Edge (Theatre503); Fiddler On the Roof (Cambridge Arts Theatre); The 52 Show (Leicester Square Theatre); Can I Get A Kiss From Daisy? (Old Vic, reading); Miss Julie (Sterts Theatre, Cornwall); Scenes of a Massacre (Custard Factory); The Tempest (New Theatre, Sydney).

Jennifer Rooney trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. She has worked as a choreographer for over twenty years

For TV and Film: Derry Girls (series 2 and 3), World on Fire (series 2), Old Friends and Other Days (Northern Ireland Opera)

Choreography credits 

Theatre: Fun Home & Piaf (Gate Dublin), Good Vibrations (Lyric Belfast & IAC New York), Into the Woods (West Australian Opera & Northern Ireland Opera), Eugene Onegin, The Juniper Tree & La Boheme (Northern Ireland Opera), La Traviata, Rigoletto & L’elisir d’amore (Diva Opera), Broken Water (Arcola Theatre)

Directing credits: The Devil Made Me Do It (NI Opera), Flight (BBC, One Dance Uk), Lark (Northern Ireland Screen)

Associate movement Director: Truth (Helen Chadwick Company, UK Tour), Once (The Olympia Theatre, Dublin & Seoul, South Korea)

Resident Movement Director: Once (Phoenix Theatre, London)  Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre, London) 

John is the UK Illusions Associate on Harry Potter & The Cursed Child (Palace Theatre, London) 

West End credits include; A Tupperware of Ashes (The National Theatre); Rough Magic (The Globe); The Cherry Orchard (Donmar Theatre); Death of a Salesman (Piccadilly Theatre); The Tempest, Robin Hood (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Inn At Lydda (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Worst Witch (Vaudeville Theatre); Oi Frog! (Lyric Theatre).

 Further illusion design credits include; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The magician’s elephant (RSC); Further Than The Furthest Thing (Young Vic); Piaf (The Gate, Dublin); Into the Woods, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Curtain (Theatre Royal Bath); A Christmas Carol starring Mark Gatiss (Nottingham Playhouse & Alexandra Palace); The Worst Witch (Northampton/UK Tour); #WeAreArrested (RSC/Arcola Theatre); Our Lady of Kibeho (Northampton/Stratford East); The Lost Spells, Beauty And The Beast (Watford Palace); Doctor Who: Time Fracture (Immersive London); The Canterville Ghost (Unicorn Theatre); Witches of Eastwick (Cirkus, Stockholm); Wickies, When Darkness Falls (Park Theatre); The Invisible Man, Partners in Crime (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); The Star (Liverpool Everyman); Dirty Dancing, Wishmas (Secret Cinema).

 Associate Illusions credits include; Prince of Egypt (Dominion Theatre); The Ocean at the End of the Lane (National Theatre); White Christmas (Curve, Leicester) and A Very Very Dark Matter (Bridge Theatre).

Director of Gary Beestone Events & Theatre, which provides production and project management for theatre internationally, and for a wide range of outdoor spectacles and events. Beestone developed the original production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, with the creative team. Current events include: the opening event for Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and Walthamstow Borough of Culture. Current Projects include overseeing the renovation of the Curran in San Francisco and the Mehr! Theater am Großmarkt in Hamburg, Germany.

Recent theatre credit: UK Production Supervisor for The Picture of Dorian Gray in West End. Live Events: Head of Production for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies, Production Stage Manager for the Sochi 2014 Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies; Olympic Ceremonies (London 2012, Vancouver 2010, Torino 2006, Athens 2004); Olympic Handover Ceremony (Beijing 2008). Other events include: the Rugby World cup Ceremony (Twickenham 2015); 90^th Birthday Celebrations for Nelson Mandela (Hyde Park 2008); the Royal Gala Launch (St Pancras International 2007); Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Commonwealth Games (Manchester 2002); the Opening Ceremony of the Millennium Dome (London). Other theatre credits include: The Lord of the Rings; Sister Act; Hey! Mr Producer; Les Misérables; Miss Saigon; Chess; 42^nd Street; Cats; Little Shop of Horrors.

Sabine Lemaître is a Costume Design Supervisor for theatre, ballet and opera. Working with theatre companies including The Royal Opera, Royal Ballet, National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Sadlers Wells and English National Opera. Sabine is also the International Costume Design Associate for the critically acclaimed global production HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD in London, New York, Melbourne, San Francisco, Hamburg, Toronto and Tokyo.

Theatre includes: Hamlet, staring Benedict Cumberbatch (Barbican); Mosquitoes, staring Olivia Coleman, (National Theatre) Hex, Wonder.Land (Damian Albarn /NT), Dara, Behind the Beautiful Forevers (National Theatre), The Magistrate starring John Lithgow (National Theatre), Earthquakes in London (National Theatre) , Death and The King’s Horseman (National Theatre) , Rafta Rafta (National Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (RSC/Coward); Medea starring Fiona shaw (Queens Theatre); Love for Love, Loves Sacrifice, Wendy & Peter Pan, All’s Well That Ends Well (RSC) , Titus Andronicus (RSC), Much Ado About Nothing (RSC), Morte D’Arthur (RSC), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC), The Heresy of Love (RSC), House of Desires (RSC), A Comedy of Errors (RSC); Blood Wedding (Rufus Norris/ Almeida); Cabaret (Rufus Norris/ Lyric Theatre); Porgy & Bess (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre). Onassis starring Robert Lindsay (Novello/ Chichester Festival Theatre);

Dance includes: Pet Shop boys – The Most Incredible Thing (Sadlers Wells), Eternal Damnation of Sancho & Sanchez (Sadler’s Wells); Anemoi (Royal Ballet), Chroma (Royal Ballet/ McGregor), Infra (Royal Ballet/ McGregor), Les Enfant terribles (Royal Ballet & Opera), Dances are a Gathering, (Royal Ballet), Castle Nowhere (Royal Ballet); Beyond the Tempest (Royal Ballet), Faeries (Tuckett/ Royal Opera House) and Thief of Bagdad (Will Tuckett/ Royal Opera House).

Opera includes: Dr Dee (Damon Albarn MIF/ENO), Eugene Onegin (Royal Opera), Così Fan Tutte (Royal Opera), La Traviata (Royal Opera), Il Trovatore (Royal Opera), Semele (Royal Opera), Jenufa (Royal Opera), Der Fliegende Holländer (Royal Opera); The Damnation of Faust (Terry Gilliam/English National Opera), Turandot (Goold/English National Opera), Pirates of Penzance (Elijah Moshinsky/ENO), Die Tote Stadt ( NNT Tokyo)

Editorial; US Vogue Dec 2015 (Lindsay & Coddington/Mert & Marcus), ‘Victoria’ shoot US Vogue Jan 2016 (Corbijn /Posnik & Ebbutt)

Theatre includes: Burlseque (Opera House Manchester);Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park Theatre); Backstairs Billy (The Duke of Yorks Theatre); Patriots (Noel Coward Theatre); La Cage aux Folles & Once On This Island (Regents Park); 4000 Miles (Chichester Festival Theatre), Private Lives & Blue Town (Donmar Warehouse); Orlando (The Garrick Theatre); 101 Dalmations (Regent’s Park Theatre); Jerusalem (Apollo Theatre); The Shark Is Broken (Ambassadors Theatre), South Pacific (Chichester Festival Theatre/UK Tour); The Night of The Iguana (Noel Coward Theatre); The Deep Blue Sea (Chichester Festival Theatre), Hansel & Gretel (Regent’s Park Theatre); Sweet Charity (Donmar Warehouse); Dusty – The Dusty Springfield (Adelphi Theatre); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (London, Broadway, Hamburg, Japan); Country Girls (Chichester Theatre); On the Town (Regent’s Park), One Love (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?  (London); The Children (The Royal Court Theatre), Hamlet (The Barbican Theatre); A Christmas Carol (West End), Wonder.land (National Theatre & Manchester International Festival); Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (West End); Anything Goes (Sheffield Theatre); Sunny Afternoon (West End); Versailles (The Donmar Warehouse); Handbagged (Tricycle Theatre/West End); Mojo (Harold Pinter); Pygmalion (UK Tour); The Low Road, Love, Love, Love, In Basildon, Chicken Soup and Barley (Royal Court).

Film and Television: Warhorse, Batman, The Dark Knight Rises, Snow White & the Huntsman, Thor, Captain America, Game of Thrones.

Between them, Lisa and Mary have supervised many West End, UK and international productions. For SFP: The Book of Mormon, Bakersfield Mist, Legally Blonde, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Norman Conquests, A Flea in Her Ear, Dancing at Lugąasa, Much Ado About Nothing, Absent Friends, A Chorus of Disapproval, Noises O¡, Endgame, In Celebration and Donkeys’ Years. West End, UK and international tours: The Ferryman (Royal Court), Billy Elliot, Mary Poppins, The Lord of the Rings, Les Misérables, Beautiful, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Close to You, The Bodyguard, My Fair Lady, South Pacific, Matilda the Musical, Ghost, Chicago, Spring Awakening, Once the Musical, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Sound of Music, The Wizard of Oz, Stephen Ward, Love Never Dies, 10 seasons at Chichester Festival Theatre and productions at the Donmar Warehouse, Young Vic, Garsington Opera and The Old Vic.

Jeremy Chernick’s credits include: American Psycho, Amazing Grace, Allegiance, You Can’t Take It With You, Aladdin, Rocky, The Glass Menagerie, Joya, Michael Jackson and Winuk for Cirque du Soleil, Let the Right One In for the Royal Court and The Hunchback of Notre Dame for the Paper Mill Playhouse. Jeremy serves as Special Eects Coordinator for the Lincoln Center Festival, The Wiz Live, America’s Got Talent and Peter Pan Live. Last year his work was featured as part of an exhibition at the Museum of Art & Design in New York.

Finn Ross trained at, and is proud to be an Honorary Fellow of, Central School of Speech and Drama and designs video for live performance.

He has won two Olivier’s, a Tony and three Drama Desk’s & four What’sonstage Awards. 
Recent work… 
Theatre: Hello Dolly (West End); Tammy Faye, Spring Awakening (Almeida); My Neighbour Totoro (RSC); Dancin’ (Broadway); Back to the Future (West End & Broadway); Frozen (West End & International) Les Miserables (International); Sweet Charity (Donmar), (Broadway); Mean Girls  (Broadway), Bat out of Hell (West End and International), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End & Broadway), Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Broadway/West End/Tour); Jagged Little Pill, In the Body of the World (American Reparatory Theatre & Broadway); American Psycho (Broadway & Almeida); Betrayal (Broadway); Chimerica (Almeida & West End); The Tempest (The RSC & Barbican); Master and Margarita, All My Sons, Shunkin (Complicite)
Opera:  The Hours (The Met);The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Royal Opera House); Missa Solemnis (LA Phil); Benvenuto Cellini, Death of Klinghoffer, Death in Venice, Damnation of Faust, Don Giovanni, (ENO); Hänsel und Gretel, Die Zauberflöte, A Dog’s Heart (DNO, Amsterdam); La clemenza di Tito, Mr Brouček (Opera North); Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Béatrice et Bénédict, Turn of the Screw (Theatre an der Wien); Rinaldo, (Glyndebourne); 
Dance: Anna Karenina (The Joffrey Ballet); The Nutcracker (Atlanta Ballet); The Feeling of Going (Skånes Dansteater and Malmö Opera)
Music: Glass Animals (2024), Sodagreen (2024) Lewis Capaldi (2022 Tour); Azimuth (Al Ula); Cold Play (Music of the Spheres); Sam Fender (17 Going Under); Foals (Life is Yours); Herbert Grönemayer (20^th Anniversary Concert); Mark Ronson (Midnight Feeling), J Balvin Fornightmares (Fortnight), W Hotel Instillation (Guangzhou, China): Rolling Stones Exhibitionism (International)

Ash J Woodward is a video designer and filmmaker. Ash has designed and animated content for large-scale shows in the West End, on Broadway and around the world. Work includes hand-drawn, 2D and 3D animation, cinematography, visual effects and design work for other live performance genres such as live music, exhibitions, and art installations. Ash J Woodward is an associate artist at the Squint theatre company. Work in theatre as video and projection designer includes: Fangirls (Lyric Hammersmith; The Artist (Theatre Royal Plymouth); The Witches Musical, Dear England and Hex (National Theatre); Patriots (Noël Coward & Broadway); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (worldwide); Local Hero (CFT); Famous Five the Musical (Theatr Clwyd); The 47th (The Old Vic); The Glass Menagerie (Duke of York’s); Can I Live (Complicité); The Beauty Parade (Wales Millennium Centre); Armadillo (The Yard); and Molly (Squint Theatre).

With over 22 years of industry experience, Nina van Houten is a Wigs, Hair, and Makeup supervisor predominantly working in theatre. She has been involved with the Cursed Child from the beginning starting out as head of the WHaM Department and now continuing on as the Associate for London, Hamburg and Tokyo productions

Theatre Credits

WhaM Designer: Fiddler on the Roof (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, 2024)

Associate WhaM Designer: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (London, Hamburg, Tokyo)    

WHaM Supervisor: & Juliet (UK Tour, 2024)Spring Awakening (Almeida Theatre, 2021)Orpheus Descending (Chocolate Factory/Theatre Clwyd, 2019)

Head of Department, WhaM: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (London, 2016-2018), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bridge Theatre, 2019), Company (West End, 2018-2019)

Other credits include: Royal Opera House (Various opera and ballet productions, 2006-2016), Dutch National Opera (various opera and Ballet productions 2001-2006)

Film & TV Credits

Personal WhaM Artist to Samantha Morton: The Serpent Queen (STARZ, France, 2021)

Supervisor, WhaM: Prisoners of Paradise (Mauritius, 2020)

Nick’s most recent lighting design credits include Imaginary Comforts by Daniel Handler, directed by Tony Taccone at Berkeley Repertory Theater; The Christians by Lucas Hnath, directed by Kristen Coury at the Gulfshore Playhouse; and The Prince of Players by Carlisle Floyd, directed by Philip Shneidman at The Kaye Playhouse. Nick’s recent Broadway associate lighting design credits include Amélie, lighting design by Jane Cox and Mark Barton; and Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, lighting design by Bradley King. Nick’s recent Broadway assistant lighting design credits include Finding Neverland, If/Then, and Cinderella, lighting design by Ken Posner.

Pam Skinner joined Sonia Friedman Productions in 2007 and has since been privileged to work closely on many of its award winning plays and musicals both in London and on Broadway including; La Cage Aux Folles, Legally Blonde, The Book of Mormon, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunny Afternoon, Shakespeare In Love, Bend It Like Beckham, Funny Girl and Dreamgirls. As Executive Producer for Sonia Friedman Productions, she oversees the multi-award winning Harry Potter and the Cursed Child worldwide. Before joining SFP, Pam worked for twelve years at the Really Useful Group in London and Europe. During her time at RUG she supervised over twenty major Really Useful productions in London, Europe, Mexico, Brazil and North America.

Diane Benjamin initially joined Sonia Friedman Productions part-time when it was first established in 2002, with just a team of four. She worked as Business Affairs Manager for SFP as well as the Ambassador Theatre Group from 2001 to 2005, prior to which she set up and ran the National Theatre’s Contracts Department from 1987 to 2001. Diane joined SFP full-time in 2005 as Executive Director and has worked on all its productions – over 160 – in the West End and on Broadway. She now also works on the company’s expansion with Harry Potter and the Cursed Child into Melbourne, San Francisco and Hamburg.

Max Bittleston initially joined SFP in 2014 and for over half a decade collaborated with a wide variety of artists and producers on a number of Olivier and Tony Award-winning shows. Specific highlights include The Jungle (London, New York & San Francisco), The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre, London & Worldwide), Hamlet starring Benedict Cumberbatch (Barbican, London), Dreamgirls (Savoy Theatre, London), The Ferryman (Gielgud Theatre, London), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring Imelda Staunton & Conleth Hill (Harold Pinter Theatre, London) and All About Eve starring Gillian Anderson & Lily James (Noel Coward Theatre, London). Between 2019 and 2021, Max worked as a Producer for the award-winning 59 Productions, where he led design teams creating a number of unique digital presentations combining art and technology. Max re-joined SFP in 2021. Prior to 2014, Max worked as an independent Producer with shows at the Finborough Theatre, the Arcola Theatre and the Whitstable Playhouse.

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SONIA FRIEDMAN PRODUCTIONS (SFP) is an international production company responsible for some of the most successful theatre productions around the world. Since it was established in 2002, SFP has developed, initiated and produced over 200 new productions and the company has won 63 Olivier Awards, 48 Tonys and 3 BAFTAs. In 2019, Sonia Friedman CBE was awarded ‘Producer of the Year’ at the Stage Awards for a record-breaking fourth time. In 2018, Friedman was also featured in TIME 100, a list of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. In 2017, she took the number one spot in ‘The Stage 100’, becoming the first number one in the history of the compilation not to own or operate West End theatres and the first solo woman for almost 20 years.

 Current productions include: The Book of Mormon (West End); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End, Broadway, Hamburg and Tokyo); Stranger Things: The First Shadow, a co-production with Netflix (West End); Mean Girls (West End); Shifters (West End); Stereophonic (Broadway); Funny Girl (US tour).

 Forthcoming productions include: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (North American tour); The Book of Mormon (UK & International tour 2024); Stranger Things: The First Shadow, a co-production with Netflix (Broadway); Paddington – The Musical (UK); Juno and the Paycock (West End); Oedipus (West End); The Hills of California (Broadway); Bust (Alliance Theatre, Goodman Theatre); Millions (Alliance Theatre).

 Previous theatre productions include: Fangirls (Lyric Hammersmith); Merrily We Roll Along (Broadway, New York Theatre Workshop, West End); Here There Are Blueberries (New York Theatre Workshop); Patriots (Broadway); The Hills of California (West End); Lyonesse (West End); The Shark is Broken (Broadway, Toronto, West End); Dr Semmelweis (West End, Bristol Old Vic); Funny Girl (Broadway); Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! (West End, Young Vic); Patriots (West End, Almeida); New York, New York (Broadway); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Melbourne, Toronto, San Francisco); Leopoldstadt (Broadway, West End); Mean Girls (US tour, Broadway); The Secret Life of Bees (Almeida); To Kill a Mockingbird (West End); The Piano Lesson (Broadway); Dreamgirls (UK tour, West End); The Book of Mormon (UK & Europe tour 2019-2022); Eureka Day (The Old Vic); Jerusalem (West End, Broadway, Royal Court); The 47th (The Old Vic); The Human Voice (West End); Maria Friedman and Friends: Legacy (West End); Fair Play (Bush Theatre); Anna X (West End), Walden (West End) and J’Ouvert (West End) as part of the Re:Emerge season; The Inheritance (Broadway, West End, Young Vic); The Comeback (West End); Uncle Vanya (West End); Fiddler on the Roof (West End); Rosmersholm (West End); The Ferryman (Broadway, West End, Jerwood Theatre); Ink (Broadway, West End); The Jungle (West End, Young Vic, San Francisco); All About Eve (West End); Summer and Smoke (West End); Consent (West End); The Birthday Party (West End); Farinelli and the King (Broadway, West End); 1984 (Broadway, West End); Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (West End); Hamlet starring Andrew Scott (West End); Funny Girl (West End, UK tour); Don Juan in Soho (West End); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (West End); Travesties (Broadway, West End); The Glass Menagerie (West End); Nice Fish (West End); The Haunting of Hill House (Liverpool Playhouse); A Christmas Carol (West End); Orestia (Almeida); Hamlet starring Benedict Cumberbatch (Barbican); Sunny Afternoon (UK tour, West End); Bend It Like Beckham (West End); The Nether (West End); The River (Broadway); Electra (The Old Vic); King Charles III (Sydney, UK tour, Broadway, West End); Shakespeare in Love (West End); Ghosts (Brooklyn Academy of Music, West End); Twelfth Night & Richard III (Broadway, West End); Mojo (West End); The Sunshine Boys (L.A, West End); Chimerica (West End); Nice Work If You Can Get It (Broadway); Old Times (West End); A Chorus of Disapproval (West End); La Cage aux Folles (US tour, Broadway, West End); Hay Fever (West End); Masterclass (West End); Absent Friends (West End); Legally Blonde (West End); Top Girls (West End); Private Lives (Broadway); Much Ado About Nothing (West End); Betrayal (West End); Arcadia (Broadway, West End); The Children’s Hour (West End); Clybourne Park (West End); A Flea In Her Ear (The Old Vic); A Little Night Music (Broadway, West End); Educating Rita (West End) and Shirley Valentine (West End) as part of The Willy Russell Season; The Prisoner of Second Avenue (West End); All My Sons (West End); La Bête (Broadway, West End); Prick Up Your Ears (West End); Othello (West End); After Miss Julie (Broadway); The Mountaintop (Broadway, West End); The Norman Conquests (Broadway); Boeing-Boeing (UK tour, Broadway, West End); A View From the Bridge (Broadway, West End); Dancing at Lughnasa (The Old Vic); Maria Friedman Re-arranged (West End); No Man’s Land (West End); The Seagull (Broadway); Under the Blue Sky (West End); That Face (West End); Dealer’s Choice (West End); Is He Dead? (Broadway, West End); Rock ‘n’ Roll (Broadway, West End); Hergé’s Adventures of Tintin (West End); Donkeys’ Years (UK tour, West End); In Celebration (West End); King of Hearts (Hampstead Theatre); The Dumb Waiter (West End); Love Song (West End); Bent (West End); Faith Healer (Broadway); Eh Joe (West End); The Woman in White (West End, Broadway); Otherwise Engaged (West End); A Celebration for Harold Pinter (West End); Shoot the Crow (West End); As You Like It (West End); The Home Place (West End); Whose Life Is It Anyway? (West End); By the Bog of Cats (West End); Guantanamo: ‘Honour Bound to Defend Freedom’ (West End); Calico (West End); Endgame (West End); Jumpers (West End); See You Next Tuesday (West End); Hitchcock Blonde (West End); Absolutely! {Perhaps} (West End); Sexual Perversity in Chicago (West End); Ragtime (West End); Macbeth (West End); What the Night is For (West End); Marc Salem: Mind Games (West End); Maria Friedman: Live (West End); Gagarin Way (West End); Afterplay (West End); Noises Off (Broadway, West End); Lobby Hero (West End); Up for Grabs (West End); A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (West End); On an Average Day (West End); Benefactors (West End); A Servant to Two Masters (West End); In Flame (West End); The Mystery of Charles Dickens (West End); Port Authority (West End); Speed-the-Plow (West End); Spoonface Steinberg (West End); Last Dance at Dum Dum (West End) and The Late Middle Classes (Watford Palace Theatre).

TV and digital productions include, as Co-Producer: Wolf Hall (BBC), Uncle Vanya (BBC), J’Ouvert (BBC), Walden (Sky Arts) and Anna X (Sky Arts); as Exec Producer: The Dresser (BBC), King Lear (BBC); as Producer: Dennis Kelly’s BAFTA-winning Together (BBC). Cinema productions include Uncle Vanya and Walden. SFP’s productions of Hamlet starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, All About Eve and Leopoldstadt have all been filmed for cinema release by NT Live. All About Eve, Hamlet and Leopoldstadt featured on NT at Home, and Hamlet on Amazon’s Great British Theatre series.

For full details of SFP’s theatre productions, please visit soniafriedman.com
Twitter: @SFP_London Instagram: @sfpofficial Facebook: /SoniaFriedmanProductions

Sir Colin Callender CBE is Chairman of Playground LLC, a theatre and television production company he founded in 2012 based in New York and London.

Playground’s Broadway productions include: Nora Ephron’s Tony nominated Lucky Guy directed by George C. Wolfe starring Tom Hanks in his Broadway debut, Harvey Fierstein’s Tony-nominated Casa Valentina directed by Joe Mantello, the Tony Award-winning revival of musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford’s critically-acclaimed production of Macbeth at The Park Avenue Armory in New York, and the Tony Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen.

Television productions include: the BAFTA and Golden Globe winning six-part BBC miniseries Wolf Hall directed by Peter Kosminsky starring Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis and Claire Foy, Richard Eyre’s acclaimed adaptation of Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser for the BBC starring Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins, Kenneth Lonergan’s award-winning adaptation of EM Forster’s Howards End for the BBC and Starz, Heidi Thomas’s adaptation of Little Women for the BBC and Masterpiece on PBS, Richard Eyre’s acclaimed adaptation of King Lear starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson for BBC and Amazon Prime Video, Lucy Kirkwood’s adaptation of her Olivier Award-winning play Chimerica for Channel 4 and, most recently, the hit adaptation of James Herriot’s All Creatures Great & Small for Channel 5 and Masterpiece on PBS. Upcoming television productions include a new adaptation of Dangerous Liasons written by Harriet Warner for Starz, and political thriller The Undeclared War from seven-time BAFTA winning writer/director Peter Kosminsky for Channel 4 and Peacock.

Callender began his career as stage manager at London’s Royal Court Theatre working with David Hare and Sam Shepard. He won an Emmy for his work as producer of the television adaptation of the RSC’s The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby for Channel 4, a Tony Award for Hedwig and the Angry Inch and a Golden Globe and a BAFTA award for Wolf Hall. As the long-time president of HBO Films, he was responsible for an unprecedented award-winning slate of movies and miniseries, including Mike Nichols’ celebrated adaptation of Angels in America starring Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson, and Gus van Sant’s Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner, Elephant.

Callender is a Trustee of the New York Public Theater and the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He received a Knighthood in the Queen’s 2016 New Year’s Honours list for his services to British film, theatre and television in the US.

For full details of Playground’s television and theatre productions, please visit playgroundentertainment.com

Harry Potter Theatrical Productions Ltd was founded by J.K. Rowling and Neil Blair in 2013 to develop and produce the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany. The team from Harry Potter Theatrical Productions Ltd have worked closely with Sonia Friedman Productions and Colin Callender’s Playground to produce the play, and also in controlling the international rights for the production.