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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Lee_Hall_(playwright)Lee Hall (playwright) - Wikipedia

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   Spouse. Beeban Kidron. . ( m. 2003) . Lee Hall (born 20 September 1966) is an English writer and lyricist. He is best known for writing the screenplay for the film Billy Elliot (2000) and the book and lyrics for its adaptation as a stage musical of the same name. In addition, he wrote the play The Pitmen Painters (2007), and the screenplays for ...

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3. literature.britishcouncil.org › writer › lee-hallLee Hall - Literature - British Council

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   Playwright Lee Hall was born in Newcastle in 1966. His acclaimed play Spoonface Steinberg (1997), a monologue for a nine-year-old autistic girl dying of cancer, was first broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in 1997. He subsequently adapted the play for television in 1998 and for the stage in 2000. He was appointed Writer in Residence at the Royal ...

   • Place Of Birth: Newcastle, England

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4. www.osfashland.org › playwrights › lee-hallPlaywright: Lee Hall - Oregon Shakespeare Festival

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   Lee Hall is an English playwright and screenwriter who has also written radio plays, a children’s opera and translated plays by Carlo Goldoni, Bertolt Brecht and Herman Heijermans. His most commercially successful work was the screenplay for the 2000 film Billy Elliot. The film was later turned into a stage musical, with music by Elton John ...

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     Playwright Lee Hall Talks about Cooking with Elvis and Wet House

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6. www.newsweek.com › 2018/11/30 › network-1976-filmMadder Still: How Playwright Lee Hall Adapted the Prophetic ...

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   Nov 20, 2018 · When English playwright Lee Hall re-watched the film in 2008, he cringed. "What Paddy predicted as mad satire in 1976 is documentary realism in our age," he tells Newsweek. "Week by week it ...

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7. stageagent.com › writers › 1518Lee Hall (Playwright) | StageAgent

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   Lee Hall is a playwright and screenwriter best known for the musical Billy Elliot for which he won a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England in 1966, he still lives in England and is married to film director Beeban Kidron. His successful screenplays include Billy Elliot, Pride and Prejudice ...

8. www.bard.org › study-guides › about-the-playwrightsAbout the Playwrights: Shakespeare in love

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   Lee Hall. Years after the success of the film version of Shakespeare in Love, playwright Lee Hall adapted the screenplay for the theatre. Hall was born on September 20, 1966 in Newcastle-upon-Tyre, Northumberland. The son of a house painter/decorator and a home maker, Hall received his education at Benfield Comprehensive School.

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   Who is Lee Hall?

   • Lee Hall is a writer whose work is firmly rooted in the expression of the political through the personal. He is perhaps most associated with the film Billy Elliot (2000), for which he wrote the screenplay, and with Spoonface Steinberg (1997), written for radio and later adapted for the stage.

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   When did Lee Hall ReWrite 'I Luv you Jimmy Spud' & 'The Pitmen Painters'?

   • He adapted his own play, I Luv You Jimmy Spud (1997), as a feature film starring Billy Connolly in 2000. Lee Hall co-wrote the screenplay for the film, Pride and Prejudice, in 2005, and adapted The Wind in the Willows for television, in 2006. The Pitmen Painters (2008) is a new play premiered at the Live Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 2007.

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   What movies and TV shows did John Hall play?

   • Hall’s additional credits include the screenplays for Pride and Prejudice, The Wind in the Willows, Toast, War Horse, and Victoria and Abdul, along with the plays I Luv You Jimmy Spud, Cooking with Elvis, Two’s Company, The Pitmen Painters, and Shakespeare in Love.

   About the Playwrights: Shakespeare in love

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   How did David Hall start his career?

   • Before beginning his career as a playwright, Hall worked as a youth theatre fundraiser in London. His career as a writer began in 1997 when he wrote a radio play called Spoonface Steinberg, which premiered on BBC Radio. Controversy surrounded Hall’s career in 1999 when a children’s opera that he had written called Beached premiered.

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10. www.scotsman.com › news › interview-lee-hallInterview: Lee Hall, playwright - The Scotsman

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    Jul 25, 2011 · When Lee Hall stumbled across the story of a group of miners who became celebrated painters, he found its strong personal resonance impossible to resist. LEE HALL was browsing in a second-hand ...