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, MN
  • To Begin With, 2015 - revived in 2017, premiered at the Music Box Theatre in Minneapolis and starred Gerald Charles Dickens
  • No Name, 2014
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club, 2011
  • Ten Chimneys, 2011
  • Louder Faster, 2011
  • Bloody Radio Murders, 2010
  • Mrs. Mannerly, NY premiere 2010
  • Cousin Bette, 2009,
  • Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, 2008,
  • The Government Inspector, 2008,
  • Armadale, 2007
  • The Falls, 2006
  • Korczak's Children, 2006
  • Murderers, 2005
  • A Picasso, 2005,
  • Murder by Poe, 2003,
  • Good 'n' Plenty, 2001
  • Hanging Lord Haw Haw, 2000
  • To Fool the Eye, 2000,
  • 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
  • Mother Russia, 1999
  • Pierre, 1998,
  • What Corbin Knew, 1998
  • Smash, 1997
  • The Turn of the Screw, 1996
  • Miss Nelson is Missing!, 1996,
  • Scotland Road, 1993

    Scripts

Film
  • The Good Liar, 2019
  • Mr. Holmes, 2015
  • The Duchess, 2008
  • Casanova, 2005
  • Stage Beauty, 2004
TV