Lee Hall is Pearson Television Writer in Residence at the RSC.

His plays include: Cooking with Elvis (Edinburgh Festival & Playhouse, West End starring Frank Skinner); Spoonface Steinberg (New Ambassadors Theatre starring Kathryn Hunter,  adapted from his radio play); new version of Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters (RSC Stratford & Young Vic); translation of Brecht’s Mother Courage and her Children (Shared Experience UK tour & New Ambassadors Theatre); translation of Brecht’s Mr. Puntilla and His Man Matti for The Right Size/Almeida (Traverse, Edinburgh, Almeida, West End).

Screenplays include Billy Elliott (directed by Stephen Daldry for Tiger/BBC films/WT2); I Love You Jimmy Spud (based on his own radio play and starring Billy Connolly)

Other projects include: Uri Gagarin for Apocalypse/Film Four and the adaptation of Deborah Moggach’s novel Tulip Fever as a feature for Ruby Films/Dreamworks.

Lee’s renowned BBC radio play Spoonface Steinberg won the Best Radio Play category of the 1997 Writers’ guild Awards and three 1997 Talkie Awards. First transmitted in January 1997, it was repeated within a month and made available on audio cassette. His television adaptation was screened on BBC2 in June 1998.