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 ''

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'' (2004). He also co-wrote the stage adaptation of '' Tuesdays with Morrie'' with author

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, 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)."Psychological Thriller" ''

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''; April 11, 2010; Page 13. 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

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's novella, '' The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'', into a play in which actors play multiple roles, and

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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. 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 * ''

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'', 1996 (adaptation of the novella of the same name by

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) * ''Miss Nelson is Missing!'', 1996, (based on the book by Harry Allard and James Marshall) * ''Smash'', 1997 (an adaptation of

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'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 ''

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'') * '' 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

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) * ''A Picasso'', 2005, (loosely inspired by actual events surrounding the Nazi persecution of "

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") * ''Murderers'', 2005 * ''The Falls'', 2006 * ''Korczak's Children'', 2006 * ''Armadale'', 2007 * ''Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde'', 2008, (an adaptation of

'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

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's ''

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'') * ''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

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) * ''No Name'', 2014 (an adaptation of the

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novel, premiered at Carthage College, then Edinburgh Festival Fringe) * ''To Begin With'', 2015 - revived in 2017 (an adaptation of ''

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'' by

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), premiered at the Music Box Theatre in

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and starred

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* "Glensheen", 2015 premiered at History Theatre in Saint Paul, MN * ''The Alchemist'', 2021 (an adaptation of the

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play of the same name, premiered at The Red Bull Theatre in New York City)

Scripts

Film * ''

'', 2004 * '' Casanova'', 2005 (co-writer) * '' The Duchess'', 2008 * ''

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'', 2015 * '' The Good Liar'', 2019 TV * '' Columbo: Ashes to Ashes'', 1998 * '' Murder at the Cannes Film Festival'', 2000 * '' Upstairs, Downstairs: All the Things You Are'', 2012 * '' The Mentalist: Forest Green'', 2014

Awards and nominations

* Edgar Award for Best Play for ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' (nominated)

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

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