Jeffrey Hatcher

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Jeffrey Hatcher
Hatcher at the History Theatre, St. Paul
Nationality	American
Occupation	Playwright, screenwriter
Notable work	Compleat Female Stage Beauty Casanova The Duchess

Jeffrey Hatcher is an American playwright and screenwriter. He wrote the stage play Compleat Female Stage Beauty, which he later adapted into a screenplay, shortened to just Stage Beauty (2004). He also co-wrote the stage adaptation of Tuesdays with Morrie with author Mitch Albom, and Three Viewings, a comedy consisting of three monologues - each of which takes place in a funeral home. He wrote the screenplay Casanova for director Lasse Hallström, as well as the screenplay for The Duchess (2008).^[1] He has also written for the Peter Falk TV series Columbo and E! Entertainment Television.

Career[]

His many award-winning original plays have been performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally across the US and abroad. Some of his plays include Three Viewings, Scotland Road, A Picasso, Neddy, Korczak's Children, Mercy of a Storm, Work Song: Three Views of Frank Lloyd Wright (with Eric Simonson), and Lucky Duck (with Bill Russell and Henry Kreiger). Hatcher wrote the book for the Broadway musical Never Gonna Dance and the musical, ELLA.

Hatcher adapted Robert Louis Stevenson's novella, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, into a play in which actors play multiple roles, and Mr. Hyde is played by four actors, one of whom is female. The adaptation, which has been called "hipper, more erotic, and theatrically intense...definitely not your grandfather's 'Jekyll and Hyde'", was nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for an Edgar Award for Best Play.^[1]

Hatcher is a member and/or alumnus of The Playwrights' Center, The Dramatists Guild of America, Writers Guild of America and New Dramatists.

Work[]

Plays[]

• Scotland Road, 1993
• The Turn of the Screw, 1996 (adaptation of the novella of the same name by Henry James)
• Miss Nelson is Missing!, 1996, (based on the book by Harry Allard and James Marshall)
• Smash, 1997 (an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Novel An Unsocial Socialist)
• Pierre, 1998, (adapted from Pierre: or the Ambiguities by Herman Melville)
• What Corbin Knew, 1998
• Mother Russia, 1999
• Compleat Female Stage Beauty, 1999
• The Servant of Two Masters, 1999, with Emilo Paolo Landi (adaptation of the Goldoni commedia dell'arte play)
• Hanging Lord Haw Haw, 2000
• To Fool the Eye, 2000, (an adaptation of Jean Anouilh's Léocadia)
• Work Song: Three Views of Frank Lloyd Wright, 2000, with Eric Simonson
• Good 'n' Plenty, 2001
• Murder by Poe, 2003, (an adaptation of five stories by Edgar Allan Poe)
• A Picasso, 2005, (loosely inspired by actual events surrounding the Nazi persecution of "Degenerate art")^[2]
• Murderers, 2005
• The Falls, 2006
• Korczak's Children, 2006
• Armadale, 2007
• Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, 2008, (an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella, using 4 actors to play the role of Mr. Hyde)
• The Government Inspector, 2008, (adapted from Nikolai Gogol)
• Cousin Bette, 2009, (an adaptation of Honoré de Balzac's La Cousine Bette)
• Bloody Radio Murders, 2010 (written for a MMW's drama club)
• Mrs. Mannerly, NY premiere 2010
• Ten Chimneys, 2011
• Louder Faster, 2011 (co-authored with Eric Simonson, premiered at City Theatre)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club, 2011 (premiered at Arizona Theatre Company)
• No Name, 2014 (an adaptation of the Wilkie Collins novel, premiered at Carthage College, then Edinburgh Festival Fringe)
• To Begin With, 2015 - revived in 2017 (an adaptation of The Life of Our Lord by Charles Dickens), premiered at the Music Box Theatre in Minneapolis and starred Gerald Charles Dickens

Screenplays[]

• Stage Beauty, 2004
• Casanova, 2005 (co-writer)
• The Duchess, 2008
• Mr. Holmes, 2015
• The Good Liar, 2019

Awards and nominations[]

• Edgar Award for Best Play for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (nominated)^[1]

Notes[]

References[]

• Christopher Rawson, "Stage Preview: Prolific Writer's 'Work Song' pushes City Theatre's Limits", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sunday, November 21, 2004.

External links[]

• Jeffrey Hatcher at IMDb
• Jeffrey Hatcher at the Internet Broadway Database
• Jeffrey Hatcher - Downstage Center interview at American Theatre Wing.org