Personal favorites include Helena Bonham-Carter's banshee-like Bellatrix LeStrange, Gary Oldman's stalwart Sirius Black and Maggie Smith's dotty but redoubtable Minerva McGonagall.
Gary Haines, who describes himself as black and a product of an inner city school system, is training to be a teacher having worked in London as a learning support assistant.
In 2007 Gary Griffin directed a revival of "Passion" in Chicago Shakespeare Theater's 300-seat black-box performing space that made the strongest possible case for the show.