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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.
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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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.
Mar 29, 2016 · Playwright Lee Hall. Lee was a rising star. He’d had the switchboard buzzing at BBC Radio 4 with his play Spoonface Steinberg and had written a BBC1 play, Prince of Hearts, based on...
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.
Sep 17, 2010 · Playwright LEE HALL discusses Manhattan Theatre Club's latest production: THE PITMEN PAINTERS. From the writer of BILLY ELLIOT comes the true story of five miners who unearthed a new...
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When playwright Lee Hall penned his international megahit Billy Elliot, he gave birth to a new dramatic archetype: the creative and cultural rags to riches story, where bright but unrecognised talent strives to overcome social prejudices and economic limitations.
