Canadian playwright (born 1978)
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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