Jeffrey Hatcher
Core Writer
Wayzata, MN
Biography

BROADWAY: Never Gonna Dance (book).

OFF-BROADWAY: Three Viewings and A Picasso at Manhattan Theatre Club; Scotland Road and The Turn of the Screw at Primary Stages; The Government Inspector and The Alchemist at Red Bull; Lucky Duck (book w/Bill Russell) at the New Victory; Tuesdays with Morrie (with Mitch Albom) at The Minetta Lane; Murder by Poe, The Turn of the Screw, and The Spy at The Acting Company; Neddy at American Place; and Fellow Travelers at Manhattan Punchline.

OTHER PLAYS/THEATERS: Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Mrs. Mannerly, Murderers, Mercy of a Storm, Smash, Armadale, Korczak’s Children, To Fool the Eye, The Falls, A Piece of the Rope, Jeffrey Hatcher’s Hamlet, The Scarecrow and His Servant, All the Way with LBJ, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Key Largo, Wait Until Dark, Dial M for Murder, and others at The Guthrie, Old Globe, Yale Rep, The Geffen, Seattle Rep, the Huntington Theater, Shakespeare Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, South Coast Rep, Arizona Theater Company, San Jose Rep, The Empty Space, Indiana Rep, Children’s Theater Company, History Theater, Madison Rep, Intiman, Illusion, Denver Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Rep, Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Actors Theater of Louisville, Philadelphia Theater Company, Asolo, City Theater, Studio Arena, and dozens more in the U.S. and abroad.

FILM/ TV: Stage Beauty, Casanova, The Duchess, Mr. Holmes, The Good Liar, and episodes of Columbo and The Mentalist.

GRANTS/AWARDS: NEA, TCG, Lila Wallace Fund, Rosenthal New Play Prize, Frankel Award, Charles MacArthur Fellowship Award, McKnight Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Barrymore Award Best New Play, and 2013 Ivey Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a member and/or alumnus of the Playwrights’ Center, the Dramatists Guild, the Writers Guild, and New Dramatists.

Successes

Core Writer Jeff Hatcher has been named as writer/director for a new mystery to be showcased in Park Square Theatre's 2020-21 season. The yet-announced play will run July 9- August 15, 2021 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Full season announcement here

Theatre J announces Tuesdays With Morrie written by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom as part of their 2020-21 season.                                                              

The Alchemist will run Spring 2020 at Red Bull Theater in NYC.

Key Largo starring Andy Garcia will run November-December at the Geffen Theater in Los Angeles.