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The digital heart of the Wizarding World www.pottermore.com Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two may not be performed in whole or in part and no use may be made of it whatsoever except under express license from the rights holders of the work, J.K Rowling and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions Limited Please email inquiries@hptheatricalproductions.com with any inquiries To Jack Thorne who entered my world and did beautiful things there — J.K Rowling For Joe, Louis, Max, Sonny, and Merle… wizards all… — John Tiffany To Elliott Thorne, born April 7, 2016 As we rehearsed, he gurgled — Jack Thorne Nuno Silva ASSISTANT MOVEMENT CAPTAIN Jack North VOICE CAPTAIN Morag Cross PRODUCTION CREDITS ORIGINAL STORY J.K Rowling, John Tiffany, Jack Thorne PLAYWRIGHT Jack Thorne DIRECTOR John Tiffany MOVEMENT DIRECTOR Steven Hoggett SET DESIGNER Christine Jones COSTUME DESIGNER Katrina Lindsay COMPOSER & ARRANGER Imogen Heap LIGHTING DESIGNER Neil Austin SOUND DESIGNER Gareth Fry ILLUSIONS & MAGIC Jamie Harrison MUSIC SUPERVISOR & ARRANGER Martin Lowe CASTING DIRECTOR Julia Horan CDG PRODUCTION MANAGER Gary Beestone PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Sam Hunter ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Des Kennedy ASSOCIATE MOVEMENT DIRECTOR Neil Bettles ASSOCIATE SET DESIGNER Brett J Banakis ASSOCIATE SOUND DESIGNER Pete Malkin ILLUSIONS & MAGIC ASSOCIATE Chris Fisher CASTING ASSOCIATE Lotte Hines ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER Adam King COSTUME DESIGN SUPERVISOR Sabine Lemaître HAIR, WIGS & MAKE-UP Carole Hancock PROPS SUPERVISORS Lisa Buckley, Mary Halliday MUSIC EDITOR Phij Adams MUSIC PRODUCTION Imogen Heap SPECIAL EFFECTS Jeremy Chernick VIDEO DESIGN Finn Ross, Ash Woodward DIALECT COACH Daniele Lydon VOICE COACH Richard Ryder COMPANY STAGE MANAGER Richard Clayton STAGE MANAGER Jordan Noble-Davies DEPUTY STAGE MANAGER Jenefer Tait ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS Oliver Bagwell Purefoy, Tom Gilding, Sally Inch, Ben Sherratt RESIDENT DIRECTOR Pip Minnithorpe HEAD OF WARDROBE Amy Gillot DEPUTY HEAD OF WARDROBE Laura Watkins WARDROBE ASSISTANTS Kate Anderson, Leanne Hired DRESSERS George Amielle, Melissa Cooke, Rosie Etheridge, John Ovenden, Emilee Swift 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 Laura Caplin SFX OPERATOR Callum Donaldson HEAD OF AUTOMATION Josh Peters DEPUTY HEAD OF AUTOMATION Jamie Lawrence AUTOMATION NO 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 MiniSeries (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 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