Jamie Campbell Bower, who played Henry Creel, also known as Vecna, in Stranger Thingsis ready to pass the torch to someone else to take over this role.
The character was first introduced in the fourth season of the hit Netflix series and continued his villainy in the fifth and final season.
In addition to his role in the series, the British actor also made a surprise appearance in the Broadway film. Stranger Things: The First Shadowmarking his first time on the Broadway stage and also saying goodbye to his malevolent persona.
The stage production, currently playing at the Marquis Theater in New York, serves as a prequel to the television series. It sees Henry as a troubled teenager who goes to high school with several adult characters from the television series.
Bower in conversation with the Popular magazineexpressed his gratitude to the creators of the show.
“It’s such an amazing and quite weird thing to have a character that I created with Matt and Ross [Duffer] exist in what seems like a perpetuity on stage performed by various people,” he said.
“It’s an incredible gift. I think every actor who takes on the role will bring something new and bring their own interpretation to it,” he continued.
When asked if he would ever take on a larger role in the play, he replied: “I’ve done my part, I’m leaving. Now it’s someone else’s turn to do a play.”
First Shadow features a book by series executive producer Kate Trefry, a story by series creators Matt and Ross Duffer, playwrights Jack Thorne and Trefry, and direction by Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin.
The cast includes Louis McCartney as Henry Creel, Alison Jaye as Joyce Maldonado (young Joyce Byers), Bruke Swanson as James Hopper Jr. (young Jim Hopper), Dora Dolphin as Karen Childress (young Karen Wheeler) and many others.
The Stranger Things: The First Shadow premiered in London’s West End in 2023 before transferring to Broadway in 2025.
