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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.
- Newcastle, England
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Nov 20, 2018 · Hall, best known for the 2000 screenplay for Billy Elliot as well as its Tony-winning musical adaption, recognized not only Chayefsky's eerie prescience, but also "a...
- Anna Menta
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...
Oct 4, 2016 · 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.
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.
Spoonface Steinberg is a play by British playwright Lee Hall, first broadcast as a dramatic monologue on BBC Radio 4 on Monday 27 January 1997. Such was the popular acclaim that the BBC repeated it on Radio 4 the following Saturday afternoon.
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