Ron Hutchinson (screenwriter)
Northern Irish screenwriter, playwright, and author
- Screenwriter
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- Author
Ron Hutchinson (born 8 November 1946)[1] is a Northern Irish screenwriter, playwright, and author. He is a four-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee, winning once for writing the screenplay for the television film Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989).[2]
Career
Among his other productions were Slave of Dreams (directed by Robert M. Young), the play Moonlight and Magnolias, and the 2004 miniseries Traffic.
He has written extensively for theatre. In 2004, Hutchinson wrote Moonlight and Magnolias. The play at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for the 2004 Joseph Jefferson Award for New Work. The Irish Play was performed in a Royal Shakespeare Company production at the Royal Shakespeare Company Warehouse Theatre in London, England with Ron Cook, Brenda Fricker, and P.G. Stephens in the cast. Barry Kyle was the director. Writing in Variety in 2005, David Rooney found the Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Moonlight and Magnolias to be a "flimsy comedy", but that "despite its superficial exploration of anti-Semitism in 1939 Hollywood, the play is not without its pleasures".[3] Reviewing the Tricycle Theatre's production of the play for The Daily Telegraph two years later, Charles Spencer called it a "delightful screwball comedy that is also a valentine to the golden days of Hollywood. A prolific screenwriter himself, who knows what it is to be holed up in a hotel room at two in the morning with a script to a doctor for the following day's shoot, Hutchinson has come up with a comedy of panache that's certainly worth giving a damn about."[4]
In April 2019, BBC Radio 4 broadcast Hutchinson's Ship of Lies, a five-part drama based on some of the legends and myths regarding RMS Titanic.[5]
Personal life
Hutchinson was brought up and educated in Coventry.[6] He now lives in Los Angeles, California with his second wife and adopted daughter.
Filmography
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Plays
- Says I, Says He (1977)[7]
- Eejits (1978)
- The Irish Play (1980)
- Risky City (1981)
- Into Europe (1981)
- The Dillen (1983)
- Rat In The Skull (1984)
- Mary, After The Queen (1985)[8]
- Flight (1988)
- Pygmies In The Ruins (1991)
- Burning Issues 2000)
- Lags (2001)
- Beau Brummell (2001)
- Head/Case (2004)
- Moonlight and Magnolias (2004)
- Topless Mum In Dead Hero Shocker!! (2007)
- Durand's Line (2009)
- Paisley & Me (2012)
- Dead On Her Feet (2012)
References
- ^ "Ron Hutchinson (b. 1946)". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
- ^ "Ron Hutchinson - Emmy Awards, Nominations and Wins". Television Academy. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
- ^ Rooney, David (29 March 2005). "Moonlight & Magnolias". Variety. Los Angeles. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ^ Spencer, Charles (8 October 2007). "Moonlight and Magnolias: Comedy captures the birth of a movie classic". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ^ Writer: Ron Hutchinson; Director: Eoin O'Callaghan (8 April 2019). "Ship of Lies". 15 Minute Drama. BBC. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
- ^ Paul Lawley, 'HUTCHINSON, Ron', in K. A. Berney, ed., Contemporary British Dramatists, 1994
- ^ "Ron Hutchinson - complete guide to the Playwright and Plays". Archived from the original on 12 January 2009. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
- ^ Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. ref:odnb/71619. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71619. Retrieved 12 January 2023. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
External links
- Ron Hutchinson at the British Film Institute
- Ron Hutchinson at IMDb
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- Tom Stoppard for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Wole Soyinka for The Interpreters (shared) (1967)
- Peter Nichols for A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1967)
- Peter Barnes for The Ruling Class and Edward Bond for Narrow Road to the Deep North (shared) (1968)
- Howard Brenton for Christie in Love (1969)
- Freehold Company and Peter Hulton (joint) for Freehold on Antigone (1970)
- Mustapha Matura for As Time Goes By (1971)
- Heathcote Williams for AC/DC (1972)
- John Arden (1973)
- David Rudkin (1974)
- David Edgar for Destiny (1975)
- David Lan for The Winter Dancers (1976)
- David Halliwell and Snoo Wilson for The Glad Hand (shared) (1978)
- Stephen Bill (1979)
- David Pownall for Beef (1981)
- Karim Alrawi for Migrations (1982)
- Peter Flannery for Our Friends in the North (1983)
- Ron Hutchinson for The Rat in the Skull (1984)
- Guy Hibbert for On the Edge and Heidi Thomas for Shamrocks & Crocodiles (shared) (1985)
- Nick Dear for The Art of Success (1986)
- Iain Heggie for American Bagpipes (1988)
- Billy Roche for A Handful of Stars (1989)
- Lucy Gannon for Keeping Tom Nice (1990)
- Terry Johnson for Imagine Drowning (1991)
- Rod Wooden for Your Home in the West (1992)
- Martin Crimp for The Treatment and Helen Edmundson for The Clearing (shared) (1993)
- Jonathan Harvey for Beautiful Thing (1994)
- Joe Penhall for Some Voices (1995)
- Ayub Khan-Din for East is East (1996)
- Ann Coburn for Get Up and Tie Your Fingers (1997)
- Roy Williams for Starstruck (1998/9)
- David Greig for The Cosmonaut's Last Message ... and Tanika Gupta for The Waiting Room (shared) (2000)
- Zinnie Harris for Further than the Furthest Thing (2001)
- Peter Rumney for Jumping on my Shadow (2002)
- Rona Munro for Iron (2003)
- Owen McCafferty for Scenes from the Big Picture (2004)
- Fin Kennedy for How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found (2005)
- James Philips for The Rubenstein Kiss and Fraser Grace for Breakfast with Mugabe (shared) (2006)
- Dennis Kelly for Taking Care of Baby (2007)
- Bryony Lavery for Stockholm (2008)
- Alexi Kaye Campbell for The Pride (2009)
- Tim Crouch for The Author and Lucy Kirkwood for It Felt Empty When the Heart Went at First but It Is Alright Now (shared) (2010)
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