Jason Hall (playwright) explained

Jason Hall (born 1978) is a Canadian playwright. He was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. He attended Queen's University, King's College London, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Eyes Catch Fire, his first full-length play, won Canada's Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition in 2003. It was subsequently produced at the Finborough Theatre, London in 2004 and was selected as a Time Out Critics' Choice.[1]

GBS, his second play, was first produced at Toronto's Factory Theatre in 2004 as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival. Its second production was in 2006 at Theatre503, London.[2] GBS third production took place in March–April 2010 at New York's off-Broadway Kirk Theatre on Theatre Row.[3]

Stand Sentry, a short film adapted from his play of the same name, premiered at the Strasbourg International Film Festival on August 31, 2009.[4]

In 2005, he was selected by the Royal Court Theatre Young Writers Programme to attend the World Interplay Festival in Australia.[5] Later that year, he was chosen by the British Council's Visiting Arts programme to spend three months in residence at El Teatro Libre in Bogotá, Colombia.[6]

He currently resides in London, UK.

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Notes

  1. http://www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk/archive/archive_eyescatchfire.htm
  2. http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsH/hall-jason.html
  3. Web site: Archived copy . 2009-07-22 . 2016-12-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161203071901/http://www.theclockworktheatre.org/currentprod.html#gbs . dead .
  4. Web site: Strasbourg International Film Festival - Comedic Shorts . www.strasbourgfilmfest.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090912003020/http://www.strasbourgfilmfest.com/shorts-comedy-09.html . 2009-09-12.
  5. Web site: Jason Hall - complete guide to the Playwright and Plays . www.doollee.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090112140106/http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsH/hall-jason.html . 2009-01-12.
  6. Web site: Archived copy . 2009-07-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091004170000/http://www.visitingarts.org.uk/our_work/colombia_programme.html . 2009-10-04 . dead .
  7. Book: 1-84002-702-9. GBS. Hall. Jason. 2006. Bloomsbury Academic .