Jeffrey Hatcher (Playwright) Jeffrey Hatcher is an award-winning writer for stage, screen, and television. 
Dozens of Hatcher’s plays, original and adaptations, have been produced on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in theaters around the world. They include the book for the Broadway musical Never Gonna Dance, Dial M for Murder, A Picasso, Tuesdays with Morrie (with Mitch Albom), Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club, The Good Soldier, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

He has written screenplays for the films The Duchess, Casanova, Stage Beauty, and, most recently, Mr. Holmes. He has also written episodes of Columbo, and The Mentalist.

Hatcher recently, after a 30 year hiatus, returned to the stage, acting in Educating Rita, The Heiress, and his own piece Jeffrey Hatcher’s Hamlet, a one-man show about adapting, directing and acting in his 5th grade school production of Shakespeare’s tragedy.

His awards and grants include: NEA, TCG, Lila Wallace Fund, 2013 IVEY Lifetime Achievement Award, Rosenthal New Play Prize, Frankel Award, Charles MacArthur Fellowship Award, Edgerton Grant, McKnight Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Barrymore Award Best New Play (A Picasso), and L.A. Critics Circle Award Best Adaptation (Cousin Bette). He is a member and/or alumnus of The Playwrights Center, the Dramatists Guild, the Writers Guild, and New Dramatists.