Jeffrey Hatcher
Jeffrey Hatcher is a much-produced 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. 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. 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. 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 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.
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 , and Lucky Duck. 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
Holmes/Poirot, 2024 Dial M for Murder, 2022 The Alchemist, 2021 Holmes and Watson, 2018- "Glensheen", 2015 premiered at History Theatre in Saint Paul, MNTo Begin With, 2015 - revived in 2017, premiered at the Music Box Theatre in Minneapolis and starred Gerald Charles DickensNo Name, 2014 Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club, 2011 Ten Chimneys, 2011Louder Faster, 2011 Bloody Radio Murders, 2010 Mrs. Mannerly, NY premiere 2010 Cousin Bette, 2009, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, 2008, The Government Inspector, 2008, Armadale, 2007The Falls, 2006Korczak's Children, 2006Murderers, 2005A Picasso, 2005, Murder by Poe, 2003, Good 'n' Plenty, 2001Hanging Lord Haw Haw, 2000To Fool the Eye, 2000, Work Song: Three Views of Frank Lloyd Wright, 2000, with Eric SimonsonCompleat Female Stage Beauty, 1999The Servant of Two Masters, 1999, with Emilo Paolo Landi Mother Russia, 1999Pierre, 1998, What Corbin Knew, 1998Smash, 1997 The Turn of the Screw, 1996 Miss Nelson is Missing!, 1996, Scotland Road, 1993
Scripts
FilmThe Good Liar, 2019Mr. Holmes, 2015The Duchess, 2008Casanova, 2005 Stage Beauty, 2004TVThe Mentalist: Forest Green, 2014Upstairs, Downstairs: All the Things You Are, 2012Murder at the Cannes Film Festival, 2000Columbo: Ashes to Ashes, 1998
Awards and nominations
- Edgar Award for Best Play for ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde''