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She looks at him, desperately moved.

DELPHI: Father?

HARRY/VOLDEMORT: Together, the power we could wield.

DELPHI: Father. . .

HARRY/VOLDEMORT: Come here, in the light, so I may examine what my blood made.

DELPHI: Your mission is a mistake. Attacking Harry Potter is a mistake. He will destroy you.

HARRY/VOLDEMORT

’s hand turns into

HARRY

’s hand. He looks at it, astonished and dismayed, and then quickly pulls it inside his sleeve.

HARRY/VOLDEMORT: He is a baby.

DELPHI: He has his mother’s love. Your spell will rebound, destroying you and making him too powerful and you too weak. You will recover to spend the next seventeen years consumed in a battle with him — a battle you will lose.

HARRY/VOLDEMORT

’s hair begins to sprout, he feels it, he attempts to cover it. He pulls his hood over his head.

HARRY/VOLDEMORT: Then I won’t attack him. You are right.

DELPHI: Father?

HARRY/VOLDEMORT

shrinks down — he is now more

HARRY

than

VOLDEMORT

. He turns his back to

DELPHI

Father?

HARRY(trying desperately to still sound like Voldemort): Your plan is a good one. The fight is off. You have served me well, now come here into the light so I may examine you.

DELPHI

sees a door slightly sway open and then be pulled shut. She frowns at it, thinking rapidly, her suspicion growing.

DELPHI: Father. . .

She tries to get a glimpse of his face again — there is almost a dance happening here.

You are not Lord Voldemort.

DELPHI

unleashes a bolt from her hand.

HARRY

matches her.

Incendio!

HARRY: Incendio!

The bolts meet in a beautiful explosion in the middle of the room.

And with her other hand

DELPHI

sends bolts to both doors as they try to open them.

DELPHI: Potter. Colloportus!

HARRY

looks at the doors, dismayed.

What? Thought your friends were going to join you, did you?

HERMIONE(from off): Harry. . . Harry. . .

GINNY(from off): She’s sealed the doors from your side.

HARRY: Fine. I’ll deal with you alone.

He moves to attack her again. But she is far stronger.

HARRY

’s wand ascends upwards towards her. He is disarmed. He is helpless.

How did you. . . ? What are you?

DELPHI: I’ve watched you for a long time, Harry Potter. I know you better than my father did.

HARRY: You think you’ve learnt my weaknesses?

DELPHI: I’ve studied to be worthy of him! Yes, even though he is the supreme wizard of all time, he will be proud of me. Expulso!

HARRY

rolls away as the floor explodes behind him. He crawls frantically under a church pew, trying to work out how he can fight her.

Are you crawling away from me? Harry Potter. Hero of the wizarding world. Crawling away like a rat. Wingardium Leviosa!

The church pew ascends into the air.

The question is whether it’s worth my time to kill you — knowing that as soon as I stop my father your destruction will be assured. How to decide? Oh, I’m bored, I’ll kill you.

She sends the pew down hard upon him. It smashes as he rolls desperately away.

ALBUS

emerges from a grate on the floor. Neither notice.

Avada —

ALBUS: Dad. . .

HARRY: Albus! No!

DELPHI: Two of you? Choices, choices. I think I’ll kill the boy first. Avada Kedavra!

She fires the Killing Curse at

ALBUS

— but

HARRY

throws him out of the way. The bolt smashes into the ground.

He fires a bolt back.

You think you’re stronger than me?

HARRY: No. I’m not.

They fire bolts mercilessly at each other as

ALBUS

rolls quickly away and slams a spell into one door and then another.

But we are.

ALBUS

opens both doors with his wand.

ALBUS: Alohomora! Alohomora!

HARRY: I’ve never fought alone, you see. And I never will.

And

HERMIONE

RON

GINNY

, and

DRACO

emerge from the doors, and fire up their spells at

DELPHI

, who screams out in exasperation. This is titanic. But she can’t fight them all.

There are a series of bangs — and then, overwhelmed,

DELPHI

tumbles to the floor.

DELPHI: No. . . No. . .

HERMIONE: Brachiabindo!

She’s bound.

HARRY

advances towards

DELPHI

. He doesn’t take his eyes off her. All the others stay back.

HARRY: Albus, are you okay?

ALBUS: Yes, Dad, I’m okay.

HARRY

still doesn’t take his eyes off

DELPHI

. He’s still scared of her.

HARRY: Ginny, has he been injured? I need to know he’s safe. . .

GINNY: He insisted. He was the only one small enough to crawl through the grate. I tried to stop him.

HARRY: Just tell me he’s okay.

ALBUS: I’m fine, Dad. I promise.

HARRY

keeps advancing towards

DELPHI

HARRY: A lot of people have tried to hurt me — but my son! You dare hurt my son!

DELPHI: I only wanted to know my father.

These words take

HARRY

by surprise.

HARRY: You can’t remake your life. You’ll always be an orphan. That never leaves you.

DELPHI: Just let me — see him.

HARRY: I can’t and I won’t.

DELPHI(truly pitiful): Then kill me.

HARRY

thinks a moment.

HARRY: I can’t do that either.

ALBUS: What? Dad? She’s dangerous.

HARRY: No, Albus. . .

ALBUS: But she’s a murderer — I’ve seen her murder —

HARRY

turns and looks at his son and then at

GINNY

HARRY: Yes. Albus, she’s a murderer, and we’re not.

HERMIONE: We have to be better than them.

RON: Yeah, it’s annoying but it’s what we learnt.

DELPHI: Take my mind. Take my memory. Make me forget who I am.

RON: No. We’ll take you back to our time.

HERMIONE: And you’ll go to Azkaban. Same as your mother.

DRACO: Where you’ll rot.

HARRY

hears a noise. A hissing noise.

And then there is a noise like death — a noise like nothing else we’ve heard before.

Haaarry Pottttter. . .

SCORPIUS: What’s that?

HARRY: No. No. Not yet.

ALBUS: What?

RON: Voldemort.

DELPHI: Father?

HERMIONE: Now? Here?

DELPHI: Father!

DRACO: Silencio! ( DELPHI is gagged. ) Wingardium Leviosa! (She is sent upwards and away. )

HARRY: He’s coming. He’s coming right now.

VOLDEMORT

comes through the back of the stage, and across it, and walks down into the auditorium. He brings death with him. And everyone knows it.

ACT FOUR, SCENE TWELVE

GODRIC’S HOLLOW, 1981

HARRY looks after VOLDEMORT helplessly.

HARRY: Voldemort is going to kill my mum and dad — and there’s nothing I can do to stop him.

DRACO: That’s not true.

SCORPIUS: Dad, now is not the time. . .

ALBUS: There is something you could do — to stop him. But you won’t.

DRACO: That’s heroic.

GINNY

takes

HARRY

’s hand.

GINNY: You don’t have to watch, Harry. We can go home.

HARRY: I’m letting it happen. . . Of course I have to watch.

HERMIONE: Then we’ll all witness it.

RON: We’ll all watch.

We hear unfamiliar voices. . .

JAMES(from off): Lily, take Harry and go! It’s him! Go! Run! I’ll hold him off. . .

There is a blast, and then a laugh.

You keep away, you understand — you keep away.

VOLDEMORT(from off): Avada Kedavra!

HARRY

flinches as green light flashes around the auditorium.

ALBUS

takes his hand.

HARRY

grasps hold of it. He needs it.

ALBUS: He did everything he could.

GINNY

rises beside him and takes

HARRY

’s other hand. He leans into them, they’re holding him up now.

HARRY: That’s my mum, at the window. I can see my mother, she looks beautiful.

There’s the sound of banging as doors are blasted off.

LILY(from off): Not Harry, not Harry, please not Harry. . .

VOLDEMORT(from off): Stand aside, you silly girl. . . Stand aside, now. . .

LILY(from off): Not Harry, please no, take me, kill me instead. . .

VOLDEMORT(from off): This is my last warning —

LILY(from off): Not Harry! Please. . . Have mercy. . . have mercy. . . Not my son! Please — I’ll do anything.

VOLDEMORT(from off): Avada Kedavra!

And it’s like lightning passes through

HARRY

’s body. He’s sent to the floor, a pure mess of grief.

And a noise like a shrunken scream descends and ascends around us.

And we just watch.

And slowly what was there is no longer there.

And the stage transforms and rotates.

And

HARRY

and his family and his friends are rotated off and away.

ACT FOUR, SCENE THIRTEEN

GODRIC’S HOLLOW, INSIDE JAMES AND LILY POTTER’S HOUSE, 1981

And we’re in the ruins of a house. A house that has undergone a vicious attack.

HAGRID walks through the ruins.

HAGRID: James?

He looks about himself.

Lily?

He walks slowly, unwilling to see too much too soon. He is entirely overwhelmed.

And then he sees them, and he stops, and he says nothing.

Oh. Oh. That’s not — that’s not — I weren’t — They told me, but — I were hoping for better. . .

He looks at them and bows his head. He mutters a few words, and then he takes some crumpled flowers from his deep pockets and lays them on the floor.

I’m sorry, they told me, he told me, Dumbledore told me, I can’t wait with yeh. Them Muggles are coming, yeh see, with their flashing blues and they won’t ’preciate a big lummox like me, would they?

He lets out a sob.

Hard though it is to leave yeh.

I want yeh to know — yeh won’t be forgotten — not by me — not by anyfolk.

And then he hears a sound — the sound of a baby snuffling.

HAGRID

turns towards it, walking with more intensity now.

He looks down and stands over the crib. Which seems to radiate light.

Well. Hello. Yeh must be Harry.

Hello, Harry Potter.

I’m Rubeus Hagrid.

And I’m gonna be yer friend whether yeh like it or not.

’Cos yeh’ve had it tough, not that yeh know it yet.

An’ yer gonna need friends.

Now yeh best come with me, don’t yeh think?

As flashing blue lights fill the room giving it an almost ethereal glow — he lifts

BABY HARRY

gently into his arms.

And then — without looking back — he strides away through the house.

And we descend into soft black.

ACT FOUR, SCENE FOURTEEN

HOGWARTS, CLASSROOM

SCORPIUS and ALBUS run into a room, full of excitement. They slam the door after themselves.

SCORPIUS: I can’t quite believe I did that.

ALBUS: I can’t quite believe you did that either.

SCORPIUS: Rose Granger-Weasley. I asked out Rose Granger-Weasley.

ALBUS: And she said no.

SCORPIUS: But I asked her. I planted the acorn. The acorn that will grow into our eventual marriage.

ALBUS: You are aware that you’re an utter fantasist.

SCORPIUS: And I’d agree with you — only Polly Chapman did ask me to the school ball. . .

ALBUS: In an alternate reality where you were significantly — really significantly more popular — a different girl asked you out — and that means —

SCORPIUS: And yes, logic would dictate I should be pursuing Polly — or allowing her to pursue me — she’s a notorious beauty, after all — but a Rose is a Rose.

ALBUS: You know logic would dictate that you’re a freak? Rose hates you.

SCORPIUS: Correction, she used to hate me, but did you see the look in her eyes when I asked? That wasn’t hate, that was pity.

ALBUS: And pity’s good?

SCORPIUS: Pity is a start, my friend, a foundation on which to build a palace — a palace of love.

ALBUS: I honestly thought I’d be the first of us to get a girlfriend.

SCORPIUS: Oh, you will, undoubtedly, probably that new smoky-eyed Potions professor — she’s old enough for you, right?

ALBUS: I don’t have a thing about older women!

SCORPIUS: And you’ve got time — a lot of time — to seduce her. Because Rose is going to take years to persuade.

ALBUS: I admire your confidence.

ROSE

comes past them on the stairs. She looks at them both.

ROSE: Hi.

Neither boy knows quite how to reply — she looks at

SCORPIUS

This is only going to be weird if you let it be weird.

SCORPIUS: Received and entirely understood.

ROSE: Okay. “Scorpion King. ”

She walks off with a smile on her face.

SCORPIUS

and

ALBUS

look at each other.

ALBUS

grins and punches

SCORPIUS

on the arm.

ALBUS: Maybe you’re right — pity is a start.

SCORPIUS: Are you heading to Quidditch? Slytherin are playing Hufflepuff — it’s a big one —

ALBUS: I thought we hated Quidditch?

SCORPIUS: People can change. Besides, I’ve been practicing. I think I might make the team eventually. Come on.

ALBUS: I can’t. My dad’s arranged to come up —

SCORPIUS: He’s taking time away from the Ministry?

ALBUS: He wants to go on a walk — something to show me — share with me — something.

SCORPIUS: A walk?

ALBUS: I know, I think it’s a bonding thing or something similarly vomit-inducing. Still, you know, I think I’ll go.

SCORPIUS

reaches in and hugs

ALBUS

What’s this? I thought we decided we don’t hug.

SCORPIUS: I wasn’t sure. Whether we should. In this new version of us — I had in my head.

ALBUS: Better ask Rose if it’s the right thing to do.

SCORPIUS: Ha! Yeah. Right.

The two boys dislocate and grin at each other.

ALBUS: I’ll see you at dinner.

ACT FOUR, SCENE FIFTEEN

A BEAUTIFUL HILL

HARRY and ALBUS walk up a hill on a beautiful summer’s day. They say nothing, enjoying the sun on their faces as they climb.

HARRY: So are you ready?

ALBUS: For what?

HARRY: Well, there’s the fourth-year exams — and then the fifth year — big year — in my fifth year I did —

He looks at

ALBUS

. He smiles. He talks quickly.

I did a lot of stuff. Some of it good. Some of it bad. A lot of it quite confusing.

ALBUS: Good to know.

HARRY

smiles.

I got to watch them — you know — for a bit — your mum and dad. They were — you had fun together. Your dad used to love to do this smoke ring thing with you where you. . . well, you couldn’t stop giggling.

HARRY: Yes?

ALBUS: I think you’d have liked them. And I think me, Lily, and James would have liked them too.

HARRY

nods. There’s a slightly uncomfortable silence. Both are trying to reach each other here, both are failing.

HARRY: You know, I thought I’d lost him — Voldemort — I thought I’d lost him — and then my scar started hurting again and I had dreams of him and I could even speak Parseltongue again and I started to feel like I’d not changed at all — that he’d never let me go —

ALBUS: And had he?

HARRY: The part of me that was Voldemort died a long time ago, but it wasn’t enough to be physically rid of him — I had to be mentally rid of him. And that — is a lot to learn for a forty-year-old man.

He looks at

ALBUS

That thing I said to you — it was unforgivable, and I can’t ask you to forget it but I can hope we move past it. I’m going to try to be a better dad for you, Albus. I am going to try and—be honest with you and. . .

ALBUS: Dad, you don’t need to —

HARRY: You told me you don’t think I’m scared of anything, and that — I mean, I’m scared of everything. I mean, I’m afraid of the dark, did you know that?

ALBUS: Harry Potter is afraid of the dark?

HARRY: I don’t like small spaces and — I’ve never told anyone this, but I don’t much like — (he hesitates before saying it) pigeons.

ALBUS: You don’t like pigeons?

HARRY(he scrunches up his face): Nasty, pecky, dirty things. They give me the creeps.

ALBUS: But pigeons are harmless!

HARRY: I know. But the thing that scares me most, Albus Severus Potter, is being a dad to you. Because I’m operating without wires here. Most people at least have a dad to base themselves on — and either try to be or try not to be. I’ve got nothing — or very little. So I’m learning, okay? And I’m going to try with everything I’ve got — to be a good dad for you.

ALBUS: And I’ll try and be a better son. I know I’m not James, Dad, I’ll never be like you two —

HARRY: James is nothing like me.

ALBUS: Isn’t he?

HARRY: Everything comes easy for James. My childhood was a constant struggle.

ALBUS: So was mine. So you’re saying — am I — like you?

HARRY

smiles at

ALBUS

HARRY: Actually you’re more like your mum — bold, fierce, funny — which I like — which I think makes you a pretty great son.

ALBUS: I almost destroyed the world.

HARRY: Delphi wasn’t going anywhere, Albus — you brought her out into the light and you found a way for us to fight her. You may not see it now, but you saved us.

ALBUS: But shouldn’t I have done better?

HARRY: You don’t think I ask myself the same questions?

ALBUS(stomach sinking further, he knows this is not what his dad would do): And then — when we caught her — I wanted to kill her.

HARRY: You’d watched her murder Craig, you were angry, Albus, and that’s okay. And you wouldn’t have done it.

ALBUS: How do you know that? Maybe that’s my Slytherin side. Maybe that’s what the Sorting Hat saw in me.

HARRY: I don’t understand your head, Albus — actually, you know what, you’re a teenager, I shouldn’t be able to understand your head, but I do understand your heart. I didn’t — for a long time — but thanks to this — “escapade” — I know what you got in there. Slytherin, Gryffindor, whatever label you’ve been given — I know — know — that heart is a good one — yeah, whether you like it or not, you’re on your way to being some wizard.

ALBUS: Oh I’m not going to be a wizard, I’m going into pigeon racing. I’m quite excited about it.

HARRY

grins.

HARRY: Those names you have — they shouldn’t be a burden. Albus Dumbledore had his trials too, you know — and Severus Snape, well, you know all about him —

ALBUS: They were good men.

HARRY: They were great men, with huge flaws, and you know what — those flaws almost made them greater.

ALBUS

looks around himself.

ALBUS: Dad? Why are we here?

HARRY: This is where I often come.

ALBUS: But this is a graveyard. . .

HARRY: And here is Cedric’s grave.

ALBUS: Dad?

HARRY: The boy who was killed — Craig Bowker — how well did you know him?

ALBUS: Not well enough.

HARRY: I didn’t know Cedric well enough either. He could have played Quidditch for England. Or been a brilliant Auror. He could have been anything. And Amos is right — he was stolen. So I come here. Just to say sorry. When I can.

ALBUS: That’s a — good thing to do.

ALBUS

joins his dad in front of

CEDRIC

’s grave.

HARRY

smiles at his son and looks up at the sky.

HARRY: I think it’s going to be a nice day.

He touches his son’s shoulder. And the two of them — just slightly — melt together.

ALBUS(smiles): So do I.

The End

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ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two was first produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Colin Callender, and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions. It premiered at the Palace Theatre in London, England, on July 30, 2016, with the following cast (in alphabetical order):

CRAIG BOWKER JR

Jeremy Ang Jones

MOANING MYRTLE, LILY POTTER SR

Annabel Baldwin

UNCLE VERNON, SEVERUS SNAPE, LORD VOLDEMORT

Paul Bentall

SCORPIUS MALFOY

Anthony Boyle

ALBUS POTTER

Sam Clemmett

HERMIONE GRANGER

Noma Dumezweni

POLLY CHAPMAN

Claudia Grant

HAGRID, SORTING HAT

Chris Jarman

YANN FREDERICKS

James Le Lacheur

AUNT PETUNIA, MADAM HOOCH, DOLORES UMBRIDGE

Helena Lymbery

AMOS DIGGORY, ALBUS DUMBLEDORE

Barry McCarthy

TROLLEY WITCH, PROFESSOR MCGONAGALL

Sandy McDade

STATIONMASTER

Adam McNamara

GINNY POTTER

Poppy Miller

CEDRIC DIGGORY, JAMES POTTER JR., JAMES POTTER SR

Tom Milligan

DUDLEY DURSLEY, KARL JENKINS, VIKTOR KRUM

Jack North

HARRY POTTER

Jamie Parker

DRACO MALFOY

Alex Price

BANE

Nuno Silva

ROSE GRANGER-WEASLEY, YOUNG HERMIONE

Cherrelle Skeete

DELPHI DIGGORY

Esther Smith

RON WEASLEY

Paul Thornley

YOUNG HARRY POTTER

Rudi Goodman, Alfred Jones, Bili Keogh, Ewan Rutherford, Nathaniel Smith, Dylan Standen

LILY POTTER JR

Zoe Brough, Cristina Fray, Christiana Hutchings

OTHER ROLES PLAYED BY

Nicola Alexis, Jeremy Ang Jones, Rosemary Annabella, Jack Bennett, Paul Bentall, Morag Cross, Claudia Grant, James Howard, Lowri James, Chris Jarman, Martin Johnston, James Le Lacheur, Helena Lymbery, Barry McCarthy, Andrew McDonald, Adam McNamara, Tom Milligan, Jack North, Stuart Ramsey, Nuno Silva, Cherrelle Skeete

SWINGS

Helen Aluko, Morag Cross, Chipo Kureya, Tom Mackley, Joshua Wyatt

MOVEMENT CAPTAIN

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 Lema& #238; tre

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

HEADOF WARDROBE

Amy Gillot

DEPUTY HEADOF WARDROBE

Laura Watkins

WARDROBE ASSISTANTS

Kate Anderson, Leanne Hired

DRESSERS

George Amielle, Melissa Cooke, Rosie Etheridge, John Ovenden, Emilee Swift

HEADOF HAIR, WIGS & MAKE-UP

Nina Van Houten

DEPUTY HEADOF HAIR, WIGS & MAKE-UP

Alice Townes

HAIR, WIGS & MAKE-UP ASSISTANTS

Charlotte Briscoe, Jacob Fessey, Cassie Murphie

HEADOF SOUND

Chris Reid

DEPUTY HEADOF SOUND

Rowena Edwards

SOUND NO. 3

Laura Caplin

SFX OPERATOR

Callum Donaldson

HEADOF AUTOMATION

Josh Peters

DEPUTY HEADOF AUTOMATION

Jamie Lawrence

AUTOMATION NO. 3

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.