HATCHER, Jeffrey 1958(?)–

PERSONAL

Born c. 1958; married; children: one son. Education: Attended New York University.

Addresses: Agent— Abrams Artists New York, 275 Seventh Ave., 26th Floor, New York, NY 10001; United Talent Agency, 9560 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 500, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career: Writer. Jonathan Reynolds Playwright–in–Residence, Denison University, 1997.

Member: New Dramatists, Playwrights Center, Writers Guild of America, Dramatists Guild.

Awards, Honors: Charles MacArthur Fellow, 1989; Rosenthal New Play Prize, 1993, for Scotland Road; Lois and Richard Rosenthal New Play Prize, 1993, for Three Viewings; Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund Artist Fellow, American Antiquarian Society, 1995; New Dramatists Whitfield–Cooke Prize, 1995; New Dramatists Whitfield–Cooke Prize, 1998, for Sockdology; Barrymore Award, outstanding new play, 2003, for A Picasso; Frankel Award; New Play Citation Award, American Theatre Critics Association, for Compleat Female Stage Beauty.

WRITINGS

Stage Plays:

Neddy, produced at Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT, 1987.

Comfort and Joy, produced in New York City, 1988.

Rattan, produced at Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT, 1989.

Vandals, produced at American Globe Theater, New York City, 1991.

Show Business, produced at Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY, 1999–2000.

The Rule of Threes, produced 1989.

Bon Voyage (adapted from Sail Away by Noel Coward), produced by Denver Center Theatre Company, Denver, CO, 1993.

Scotland Road, produced at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati, OH, 1993, later Primary Stages, New York City, 1998.

Three Viewings, produced at Illusion Theater, Minneapolis, MN, 1994, then Philadelphia Theater Company, Philadelphia, PA, 1995.

Smash (based on the novel An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw), produced at Intiman Theater, Seattle, WA, then Milwaukee Chamber Theater, Milwaukee, WI, 1995.

Sockdology, produced at Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Montgomery, AL, 1999.

The Turn of the Screw (adapted from Henry James's novella of the same title), produced at Primary Stages, 1999.

Compleat Female Stage Beauty, produced by Philadelphia Theater Company, Philadelphia, PA, 2000.

What Corbin Knew, produced 2000.

Tuesdays with Morrie (adapted from Mitch Albom's book of the same title) produced at Eugene O' Neill Theater Center, 2001, then Minetta Lane Theatre, New York City, 2002–2003.

Mercy of a Storm, produced at City Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA, 2002.

Never Gonna Dance, produced at Broadhurst Theatre, New York City, 2003.

A Picasso, produced by Philadelphia Theater Company, 2003.

Murder by Poe, produced by Acting Company, New York City, 2003–2004.

Also wrote Catco; Cousin Bette; Downtown, Louisville, KY; Fellow Travelers; Lord Haw–Haw; Korczak's Children; Miss Nelson Is Missing! (based on the children's book by James Marshall and Harry Allard), produced by Children's Theater Company, Minneapolis, MN; Nasty Little Manners; One Foot on the Floor (adapted from La Dindon by Georges Feydeau), produced by Denver Center Theatre Company); Pierre (adapted from the novel by Herman Melville); Princess Ivona; Sail Away; The Servant of Two Masters; Tango Delta, Louisville, KY; Tell–Tale; The Thief of Tears; Thirteen Things about Ed Carpolotti; The Fabulous Invalid, Majestic Theatre, Boston, MA; To Fool the Eye; Two, Nikita; Wellington Defeated, Costa Mesa, CA; (with Bill Russell and Henry Krieger) Everything's Ducky; (with Eric Simonson) Work Song. The plays Scotland Road, Three Viewings, The Turn of the Screw, and Smash were published by Dramatists Play Service.

Screenplays:

Sarah (adaptation), 2001.

Compleat Female Stage Beauty (adapted from his play), Artisan Entertainment, 2003.

Television Movies:

(With Patrick McGoohan) Columbo: Ashes to Ashes, 1998.

Murder at the Cannes Film Festival, E! Entertainment Television, 2000.

Books:

The Art & Craft of Playwriting, Story Press, 1996.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

American Theatre Magazine, October, 2003.