James Hannigan

James Hannigan is a BAFTA-winning composer with credits spanning games, television, audio drama and other media. His work includes entries in AAA game franchises such as Harry Potter, RuneScape, Dead Space, Warhammer, Evil Genius, The Lord of the Rings, Theme Park and Command & Conquer, among others. In audio drama, his credits include landmark Amazon/Audible series The Sandman, the Alien series, Discworld, Neverwhere, Good Omens and Harry Potter audiobooks read by Stephen Fry. A five-time BAFTA nominee, an IFMCA Award winner for EA’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and, more recently, a Webby Award recipient for The Sandman: Act II - featuring "The Song of Orpheus" sung by Regé-Jean Page - his music, from Red Alert 3’s viral “Soviet March” to RuneScape: The Orchestral Collection, together with over fifty AAA games and countless placements across television, has accumulated billions of streams and listening hours worldwide. His other credits include entries in the FIFA, F1, Space Hulk, Art Academy, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Grand Prix game series; Freelancer, The Darkening (featuring Christopher Walken, Clive Owen and John Hurt), Catwoman, Reign of Fire, Infestation, Brute Force, Theme Park World, Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat, Conquest, Dead Space 3, Cutthroat Island, Flight of the Amazon Queen – along with Evil Genius and Republic: The Revolution. A number of his tracks can also be heard in the Super Smash Bros. and Terraria franchises.