Jack Thorne is a playwright and BAFTA-winning screenwriter.
His plays for the stage include: When Winston Went to War with the
Wireless (Donmar Warehouse, 2023); The Motive and the Cue (National
Theatre and West End, 2023; Evening Standard Award for Best Play;
Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play); After Life, an adaptation
of a film by Hirokazu Kore-eda (National Theatre, 2021); the end of
history... (Royal Court, London, 2019); an adaptation of Charles
Dickens' A Christmas Carol (Old Vic, London, 2017); an adaptation
of Büchner's Woyzeck (Old Vic, London, 2017); Junkyard (Headlong,
Bristol Old Vic, Rose Theatre Kingston & Theatr Clwyd, 2017); Harry
Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre, London, 2016); The
Solid Life of Sugar Water (Graeae and Theatre Royal Plymouth,
2015); Hope (Royal Court, London, 2015); adaptations of Let the
Right One In (National Theatre of Scotland at Dundee Rep, the Royal
Court and the Apollo Theatre, London, 2013/14) and Stuart: A Life
Backwards (Underbelly, Edinburgh and tour, 2013); Mydidae (Soho,
2012; Trafalgar Studios, 2013); an adaptation of Friedrich
Dürrenmatt's The Physicists (Donmar Warehouse, 2012); Bunny
(Underbelly, Edinburgh, 2010; Soho, 2011); 2nd May 1997 (Bush,
2009); When You Cure Me (Bush, 2005; Radio 3's Drama on Three,
2006); Fanny and Faggot (Pleasance, Edinburgh, 2004 and 2007;
Finborough, 2007; English Theatre of Bruges, 2007; Trafalgar
Studios, 2007); and Stacy (Tron, 2006; Arcola, 2007; Trafalgar
Studios, 2007).
His television work includes His Dark Materials, Then Barbara Met
Alan (with Genevieve Barr), The Eddy, Help, The Accident, Kiri,
National Treasure and This is England '86/'88/'90.
His films include The Swimmers (with Sally El Hosaini), Enola
Holmes, Radioactive, The Aeronauts and Wonder.
He was the recipient of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award
for Outstanding Contribution to Writing in 2022.
'Rising playwright Jack Thorne takes us back in time with such
quiet profundity and verve you get a burst of inspiration to match
the uplift of those distant days'
*Telegraph*
'Richly rewarding... playwright Jack Thorne elegantly refracts the
early hours of Blair through three very different relationships...
A superb 90 minutes'
*Evening Standard*
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