Jack Thorne is a writer of film, television and theatre. Jack has won five BAFTAs for his television work, and his latest credits include Best Interests, Then Barbara Met Alan, Help, National Treasure, The Virtues (co-written with Shane Meadows) and BBC’s adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. In film, his credits include Joy, Enola Holmes 1 and 2, The Swimmers, The Aeronauts, Wonder and The Scouting Book for Boys. In theatre, his play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has won multiple Olivier Awards, while The Motive and the Cue won the Critics’ Circle Theatre Award and the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best New Play. In 2022 Jack was the recipient of both the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain award for Outstanding Contribution to Writing, and the Royal Television Society’s award for Outstanding Contribution to British Television.

Thorne considers himself a member of the disabled community and is a staunch advocate for the treatment of disabled people in the entertainment industry. His first television show cast with exclusively disabled talent was Cast Offs in 2009, and more recently Then Barbara Met Alan was also led by disabled talent. In 2016 The Solid Life of Sugar Water was the first disabled play at the National Theatre and Jack is a proud patron of Graeae Theatre Company, which champions the representation of the disabled community on stage. Jack is also a founding member of the pressure group Underlying Health Condition, alongside Genevieve Barr, Katie Player and Holly Lubran. This in turn gave rise to the TV Access Project, which is supported by TripleC DANC and DDPTV and has seen 10 of the UK’s biggest broadcasters commit to full inclusion by 2030.