John Tiffany

John Tiffany is a Scottish theatre director best known in this context as co-creator and original director of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the stage play continuing the Harry Potter story, which he developed with playwright Jack Thorne and J. K. Rowling before its 2016 London premiere. Tiffany originated the story alongside Rowling and Thorne and directed its acclaimed original production, known for elaborate stage magic and physical theatre techniques that won multiple Olivier and Tony Awards, including Best Play. Tiffany's wider career includes directing the stage musical Once, which also won a Tony Award, and Let the Right One In, and he is closely associated with Scotland's National Theatre. As a director rather than a prose author, his contribution to the Harry Potter universe is theatrical rather than literary; readers interested in his work should understand Cursed Child as a script for live performance, developed collaboratively, rather than a traditionally authored novel. There is no separate novel by Tiffany within this universe beyond the published Cursed Child playscript.