Jack Thorne (Author)
Jack Thorne (born December 6, 1978 in Bristol ) is a British screenwriter and playwright who is known for his work for radio, theater and film and has received several awards for this.
Life
Thorne was educated at St. Bartholomew's School in Newbury , Berkshire. He currently lives in Luton .
Career
theatre
Thorne's plays for the stage include When You Cure Me for the Bush Theater in 2005, Fanny and Fagot for Finborough Theater and tour 2007, Stacy for Arcola Theater and Trafalgar Studios in 2007, Burying Your Brother in the Pavement for the Royal National Theater Connections Festival 2008, May 2, 1997 for the Bush Theater 2009 and Bunny for Underbelly and tour 2010. In 2012, his version of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Die Physiker am Donmar Warehouse was staged . His adaptation of the book and film Let the Right One In was shown by the National Theater of Scotland in 2013 at Dundee Rep Theater, London's Royal Court Theater, the West End and New York's St. Ann's Warehouse. In June 2015 it was announced that Thorne is co- writing Joanne K. Rowling's play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child , which premiered on July 30, 2016, directed by John Tiffany at the Palace Theater in London.
Thorne's plays are published by the theater publisher Nick Hern Books.
watch TV
Thorne wrote screenplays for the television series Shameless , The Fades and Skins - Hautnah and worked with Shane Meadows on the English series This Is England '86 and This Is England '88 . Thorne has received several awards for this work.
radio
Thorne has written several pieces for the radio, including adaptations of When You Cure Me in 2006 ( BBC Radio 3 ) and of The Hunchback of Notre Dame . The radio play Snogging in Public Places , which was played on BBC Radio 3 in 2009, won Thorne Gold for Best Drama at the Sony Radio Academy Awards in 2010 . The jury based its decision on the fact that the drama was wonderfully written and implemented, is a highly original radio play that manages to be both painful and funny at the same time and is exciting to the end. In 2012 the radio play was translated into French and broadcast by France Culture under the title Regarder passer les trains .
Movie
Thorne's first film, The Scouting Book For Boys , was released in 2009. Thorne won the London Film Festival's Best British Newcomer Award in 2009, and the jury recognized him for his imagination and his talent for storytelling. In 2014 Thorne presented his film A Long Way Down at the Berlinale together with director: Pascal Chaumeil , a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Nick Hornby . In August 2017 it was announced that Thorne was revising the script for the final episode of the Star Wars sequel trilogy .
Works
theatre
- 2010: Bunny
- 2012: The Physicists
- 2013: Mydiae
- 2013: Stuart: A Life Backwards
- 2013: Let the Right One In
- 2014: Hope
- 2015: The Solid Life Of Sugarwater
- 2016: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Series
- 2007: Shameless (1 episode)
- 2007: Coming Up (1 episode)
- 2007–2009: Skins - Up Close (5 episodes)
- 2009: Cast Offs (6 episodes)
- 2010: This Is England '86 (4 episodes)
- 2011: The Fades (7 episodes)
- 2011: Skins (US) (1 episode)
- 2011: This Is England '88 (3 episodes)
- 2012: Sindbad (1 episode)
- 2014: Glue (6 episodes)
- 2015: This Is England '90 (4 episodes)
- 2015: The Last Panthers (6 episodes)
- 2016: National Treasure (4 episodes)
- 2017: Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (1 episode)
Radio plays
- 2006: When You Cure Me
- 2007: Left at the Angel
- 2009: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- 2009: People Snogging in Public Places
Movies
- 2009: The Scouting Book for Boys
- 2014: War Book
- 2014: A Long Way Down
- 2015: Don't Take My Baby
- 2017: Wunder (Wonder)
- 2019: The Aeronauts
- 2019: Marie Curie - Elements of Life (Radioactive)
Awards
- 2009: Best British Newcomer Award , London Film Festival
- 2010: Best Drama (Sony-Radio Academy Award in Gold), Sony-Radio Academy Awards
- 2012: BAFTA Best Drama Award , British Academy of Film and Television Arts
- 2012: BAFTA Best Miniseries Award , British Academy of Film and Television Arts
- 2018: Tony Award for Best Play for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Web links
- Jack Thorne in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Vita at Rowohlt
Individual evidence
- ↑ Henry McDonald: This Is England writer: '92, '98, 2000? I'm ready to pen more In: The Guardian Online, October 18, 2015.
- ↑ 'The Writers' Guild of Great Britain blog: Sony Gold for Jack Thorne' In. writersguild.blogspot.com, May 11, 2010.
- ↑ Un Prophète triumphs at London film festival awards In: theguardian.com, October 29, 2009.
- ↑ Justin Kroll: 'Star Wars': 'Wonder' Writer to Polish 'Episode IX' Script. In: Variety . Penske Media Corporation, August 1, 2017, accessed August 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Television Awards Winners in 2012 In: bafta.org. Retrieved October 23, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thorne, Jack |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British screenwriter and playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bristol , UK |