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James Hannigan is a BAFTA award-winning composer, producer, writer and conference founder, with credits spanning multi-million-selling video games, television, and cutting edge audio drama. His work includes entries in the Harry Potter, Dead Space, Evil Genius, RuneScape, Warhammer, Theme Park, EA Sports, Command and Conquer video game series; full-cast audio adaptations including the NY Times #1 bestselling The Sandman, the Audie award-winning Alien series and audiobooks including the newly recorded Discworld. He's also the founder of several London-based events and conferences, including Game Music Connect and Screen Music Connect at the Southbank Centre, London. | LISTEN
Among Hannigan's other awards are a Webby People's Choice Award for The Sandman Act II (with James McAvoy , Michael Sheen, and Regé-Jean Page) and, in earlier years, an IFMCA (International Film Music Critics Association) Award for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince VG (also BAFTA Nominated, 2010). His themes have been streamed hundreds of millions of times across media platforms, and music from his catalogue can be heard in numerous TV productions - ranging from Top Gear to The Grand Tour and, more recently, Evil Lives Here to Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking.
Other credits include entries in the FIFA, F1, Grand Prix, Transformers, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, The Lord of the Rings, and Space Hulk VG series; cult hit Red Alert 3 (with Tim Curry and J.K. Simmons), themes including the parodic Soviet March, Nintendo's Art Academy (also heard in the Super Smash Bros. series), Evil Genius 2 (2022), Steelrising (2022), Terraria: Otherworld, Primeval (BBC America), Reign of Fire, Freelancer, video game film tie-ins such as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and perhaps the most listened-to audiobooks in history: the Harry Potter series read by Stephen Fry.
