Jack Thorne FRSL was born on 6 December 1978 and is a British playwright, television writer, screenwriter, and producer.
27 Facts About Jack Thorne
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Jack Thorne is best known for writing the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the films Wonder and Enola Holmes, and the television programme His Dark Materials.
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Jack Thorne was educated at St Bartholomew's School in Newbury, Berkshire, and matriculated in 1998 at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
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Jack Thorne was forced to "degrade" due to ill health in his third year, but returned to finish his studies and graduated with lower second-class honours in 2002.
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Jack Thorne collaborated on Greenland with Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Matt Charman at the National Theatre.
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Jack Thorne wrote the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, based on an original story by Jack Thorne, JK Rowling and John Tiffany, which is running at the Palace Theatre in London's West End since August 2016, on Broadway at the Lyric Theatre since April 2018, in Melbourne's Princess Theatre since February 2019 and San Francisco's Curran Theatre since December 2019.
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Jack Thorne wrote a new adaptation of Woyzeck by Georg Buchner for the Old Vic in 2017 with John Boyega in the title role.
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Jack Thorne wrote a new adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens for the Old Vic for the Christmas 2017 season, directed by Matthew Warchus, which has subsequently returned for the 2018 and 2019 seasons, as well as the 2019 season on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre and the 2020 live broadcast through Old Vic: On Camera due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jack Thorne rewrote the musical adaptation of King Kong for its 2018 Broadway debut.
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Jack Thorne penned the play the end of history for Royal Court Theatre in 2019, starring David Morrissey and Lesley Sharp.
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Jack Thorne has written for the TV shows Skins and Shameless.
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Jack Thorne co-created Cast-offs, and has co-written This Is England '86, This Is England '88, This Is England '90 and The Virtues with Shane Meadows.
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Jack Thorne was in the running to write an episode for the fifth series of Doctor Who, but amicably parted ways with the production.
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In 2022, Jack Thorne co-wrote Then Barbara Met Alan with Genevieve Barr, the true story of Barbara Lisicki and Alan Holdsworth, the founders of DAN.
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In 2023, it was announced Jack Thorne would write a television adaptation of Lord of the Flies.
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Jack Thorne has written four plays for radio; an adaptation of When You Cure Me, Left at the Angel, an adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and People Snogging in Public Places.
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Jack Thorne has been commissioned to write feature films for producers both sides of the Atlantic, with credits including War Book starring Sophie Okonedo which Tom Harper directed, and A Long Way Down starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette and Aaron Paul based on the novel by Nick Hornby.
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Jack Thorne co-wrote the script with Steve Conrad and Stephen Chbosky.
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Jack Thorne co-wrote the 2019 film The Aeronauts with Tom Harper for Amazon Studios, starring Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne.
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Jack Thorne has been a long-term advocate for the disabled community in the dramatic arts.
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Jack Thorne described the incident as a "coming out moment" and a "crucial part" of who he is.
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Jack Thorne has since written disabled dramas The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Spastic King, Cast Offs, The Solid Life of Sugar Water, Don't Take My Baby, and CripTales, and has become a patron of the Graeae Theatre Company.
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Jack Thorne used the speech to discuss television's power as an "empathy box" in the living room of millions and its failings for neglecting a large and vibrant part of the populace by poorly representing the disabled community.
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The speech outlined how television industry practice has been discriminatory towards disabled artists, and the dire need for the industry to commit to change, both off-screen and on; alongside Genevieve Barr and Katie Player, Jack Thorne announced a pressure group called Underlying Health Condition which aims to elevate disabled voices in the industry.
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Jack Thorne argues that more disabled stories written by disabled people and performed by disabled people would make visible what's invisible in the "empathy box" in the homes of the public and cause change to happen.
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In 2023, Jack Thorne revealed he had been diagnosed as being autistic.
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Jack Thorne was inspired to seek diagnosis following a question on Desert Island Discs.