Jack Thorne

Jack Thorne’s plays include: The Motive and the Cue (National Theatre and West End); When Winston Went to War With the Wireless (Donmar Warehouse); 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).

Television Includes: The Hack, Adolescence, Toxic Town, An Almost Christmas Story, Best Interests, Help, Then Barbara Met Alan, Criptales, The Eddy, The Accident, His Dark Materials, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, Kiri, This Is England, Glue, The Last Panthers, The Fades, Don’t Take My Baby, National Treasure, Best Interests. 

Film includes: Joy, The Swimmers, Enola Holmes, 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 in television has won him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, an Astra TV Award for Best Writing in a Limited Series or TV Movie, five BAFTAs, a Rose d’Or and a 2022 RTS Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Television.  Jack is a patron of Graeae Theatre Company, an Associate Artist of the Old Vic Theatre, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, on the steering group of the TV Access Project, and President of the Writers Guild of Great Britain.