Jeffrey Hatcher is a playwright. He is the writer of the stage play Compleat Female Stage Beauty, commissioned and produced by City Theatre Company in Pittsburgh PA and the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown WV, which he later adapted into a screenplay, shortened to just Stage Beauty (2004). He also co-wrote the stage adaptation of Tuesdays with Morrie with author Mitch Albom, and Three Viewings, a comedy consisting of three ...
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Jeffrey Hatcher is a playwright. He is the writer of the stage play Compleat Female Stage Beauty, commissioned and produced by City Theatre Company in Pittsburgh PA and the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown WV, which he later adapted into a screenplay, shortened to just Stage Beauty (2004). 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. One of his most interesting works is a stage adaptation of The Turn of the Screw, Henry James's psychological thriller.
Hatcher spent his youth in Steubenville, Ohio, a gritty Ohio River town better known for its mob connections, houses of ill repute and industrial detritus than for its literary sons and daughters. Hatcher was much influenced by a high school teacher, Glenda Dunlope, an old school thespian who ran the drama program there. He attended Denison University in Granville,...
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