John Skelley cannot escape the pull of Harry Potter. It is as if something magical keeps them together.
The stage actor was first hired to be an understudy of the grown-up wizard in Broadway’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in New York. Then he led the cast in San Francisco before the pandemic hit. He returned to Potter on a year-long national tour and now finds himself back on Broadway, with the role officially his.
“It’s like something that just kind of keeps coming back into my life,” Skelley says. “There have been multiple times where I thought, ‘Well, that might be the last time I do it.’ And then the opportunity kind of keeps coming back.”
