Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (High School Edition)

The Director’s Guide, written by West End and Broadway director of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, John Tiffany, is the ultimate companion for the production process. This guide offers Tiffany’s unique vision, tips, script annotations for character development and staging, as well as a comprehensive plan to fit everything into a limited timeframe, ensuring directors can effectively lead their cast and crew.

Get the official Hogwarts House logos and banners designed by West End and Broadway pro Christine Jones to save time and effort to design from scratch.

Elevate your production with over 90 authentic sound effects from the West End and Broadway show, featuring magical spells, monstrous creatures, and the iconic time-turner effect. Delivered through Right On Cue Services (ROCS), this package saves you the time and effort of creating your own, providing high-quality sounds to bring your performance to life.

The Scenic Design Guide, written by Tony Award®-winning set designer Christine Jones, offers fundamental insights on set design from concept to execution. It covers budgeting, resource management, and includes a scene breakdown with a prop list to streamline your production.

Save time and achieve professional quality with the official promotional poster! It’s editable to include your production dates and location. Get the official artwork now and make your show shine!

Celebrate your cast and crew with exclusive cast t-shirts! Available in 4 colors and sizes XS to 3XL. Only available through our approved vendor on our website. Our partner vendor will contact you to confirm sizes and colors following your order. Minimum 50 T-shirts per order, plus $15 per additional T-shirt. Please allow 3 weeks (15 business days) for processing and delivery.

The Illusions Guide, crafted by master magician for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Jamie Harrison, takes the stress out of staging magic. Harrison’s comprehensive guide includes ground rules and concrete staging ideas for the most complex illusions in the production, ensuring that even schools with limited technical capabilities can create enchanting effects.

A single-sided, spiral-bound script designed with plenty of space for the director to take notes and add blocking during the rehearsal process. Two physical copies are included in the Production Package. Additional copies are available for purchase as add-ons.

A single-sided, three-hole punched script that can be inserted into your three-ring binder. Two physical copies are included in the Production Package. Additional copies are available for purchase as add-ons.

An additional 10 copies of the acting edition script. (Each Nonpro Production Package includes 34 acting editions.)

John Tiffany

John Tiffany directed 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 Road, 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 A.R.T, on Broadway, EIF and in the West End, and The Ambassador at BAM. 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. For his work on Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, John received the Olivier Award for Best Director, one of a record-breaking nine Oliviers received by the production.

Jack Thorne

Jack Thorne is a Tony®, Olivier and BAFTA Award winner who writes for theatre, film, television and radio. His theatre credits include Hope and Let The Right One In, both directed by John Tiffany, Woyzeck at the Old Vic, Junkyard, a Headlong, Rose Theatre Kingston, Bristol Old Vic, and Theatr Clwyd co-production, The Solid Life of Sugarwater for the Graeae Theatre Company and the National Theatre, Bunny for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Stacy for the Trafalgar Studios, 2nd May 1997 and When You Cure Me for the Bush. His adaptations include The Physicists for the Donmar Warehouse and Stuart: A Life Backwards for Hightide. On film, his credits include War Book, A Long Way Down and The Scouting Book for Boys. For television, his credits include National Treasure, The Last Panthers, Don’t Take My Baby, This Is England, The Fades, Glue and Cast-Offs. In 2017 he won a BAFTA and an RTS Television award for Best Mini-Series (National Treasure). He won 2016 BAFTAs for Best Mini-Series (This Is England ’90) and Best Single Drama (Don’t Take My Baby), and in 2012 won Best Series (The Fades) and Best Serial (This Is England ’88). This Christmas, his adaptation of A Christmas Carol will open at the Old Vic Theatre.

J.K. Rowling

J.K. Rowling is the author of the seven Harry Potter novels and three companion books, which have sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and been made into eight blockbuster films. Her other books include The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adults, and, written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, the Cormoran Strike crime novels, which have been adapted for BBC television. J.K. Rowling is also a screenwriter, making her debut in 2016 with the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The second in this five-film series, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, was released in November 2018.