Adapter, Shakespeare in Love

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 and lyrics by Hall. After a long run in the West End, Billy Elliot opened on Broadway in 2008 and won Hall the 2009 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. He has co-written the screenplays for adaptations of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. His play The Pitmen Painters played in 2009 in the National Theatre in London and on Broadway in 2010. Hall was the original writer on the screenplay for a film adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's War Horse. His stage adaptation of the film Shakespeare in Love, written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, opened in London in July 2014 and played in the 2016 Stratford (Ontario, Canada) Festival season.