Jeffrey Hatcher

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Jeffrey Hatcher
Hatcher at the History Theatre, St. Paul
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Playwright, screenwriter
Notable work

Jeffrey Hatcher is a much-produced American

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. In 2023,

American Theatre magazine
noted that the prolific Hatcher ties for the fifth most-produced playwright in America, with 13 plays in production. Furthermore, his 2022 play DIAL M FOR MURDER is the fifth most produced play in 2023, with 9 productions.

Previously, Hatcher adapted

Edgar Award for Best Play.[1]

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

Work

Plays

  • Dial M for Murder, 2022 (an adaptation of the Frederick Knott play of the same name, premiered at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego)
  • The Alchemist, 2021 (an adaptation of the Ben Jonson play of the same name, premiered at The Red Bull Theatre in New York City)
  • Holmes and Watson, 2018 (originally commissioned and produced by the Arizona Theatre Company)
  • "Glensheen", 2015 premiered at History Theatre in Saint Paul, MN
  • 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
  • No Name, 2014 (an adaptation of the Wilkie Collins novel, premiered at Carthage College, then Edinburgh Festival Fringe)
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club, 2011 (premiered at Arizona Theatre Company)
  • Ten Chimneys, 2011
  • Louder Faster, 2011 (co-authored with Eric Simonson, premiered at City Theatre)
  • Bloody Radio Murders, 2010 (written for a MMW's drama club)
  • Mrs. Mannerly, NY premiere 2010
  • Cousin Bette, 2009, (an adaptation of
    La Cousine Bette
    )
  • 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)
  • Armadale, 2007
  • The Falls, 2006
  • Korczak's Children, 2006
  • Murderers, 2005
  • A Picasso, 2005, (loosely inspired by actual events surrounding the Nazi persecution of "Degenerate art")[2]
  • Murder by Poe, 2003, (an adaptation of five stories by Edgar Allan Poe)
  • Good 'n' Plenty, 2001
  • 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
  • Compleat Female Stage Beauty, 1999
  • The Servant of Two Masters, 1999, with Emilo Paolo Landi (adaptation of the Goldoni commedia dell'arte play)
  • Mother Russia, 1999
  • Pierre, 1998, (adapted from Pierre: or the Ambiguities by Herman Melville)
  • What Corbin Knew, 1998
  • Smash, 1997 (an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Novel An Unsocial Socialist)
  • 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)
  • Scotland Road, 1993


Scripts

Film

TV

Awards and nominations

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

Notes

  1. ^
    The Union City Reporter
    ; April 11, 2010; Page 13.
  2. Sydney Morning Herald
    . Retrieved June 22, 2013.

References

External links

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