David Hare (playwright)  

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Sir David Hare (born 5 June 1947) is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director. Best known for his stage work, Hare has also enjoyed great success with films, receiving two Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for writing The Hours in 2002, based on the novel written by Michael Cunningham, and The Reader in 2008, based on the novel of the same name written by Bernhard Schlink.

In the West End, he had his greatest success with the plays Plenty, which he adapted into a film starring Meryl Streep in 1985, Racing Demon (1990), Skylight (1997), and Amy's View (1998). The four plays ran on Broadway in 1982–83, 1996, 1998 and 1999 respectively, earning Hare three Tony Award nominations for Best Play for the first three and two Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play. Other notable projects on stage include A Map of the World, Pravda, Murmuring Judges, The Absence of War and The Vertical Hour. He wrote screenplays for films including The Hours (2002) and The Reader (2008) and the BBC dramas Page Eight (2011) and Collateral (2018).

In addition to his two Academy Award nominations, Hare has received three Golden Globe Award nominations, three Tony Award nominations and has won a BAFTA Award, a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and two Laurence Olivier Awards. He has also been awarded several critics' awards such as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and received the Golden Bear in 1985. He was knighted in 1998.

Plays

• Slag (1970)
• The Great Exhibition (1972)
• Brassneck (1973) (with Howard Brenton)
• Knuckle (1974)
• Fanshen (1975). Based on William H. Hinton, Fanshen: Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village (1966)
• Teeth 'n' Smiles (1975)
• Plenty (1978)
• A Map of the World (1982)
• Pravda (1985) (with Howard Brenton)
• The Bay at Nice, and Wrecked Eggs (1986)
• The Knife (1987) (with Nick Bicat and Tim Rose Price)
• The Secret Rapture (1988)
• Racing Demon (1990)
• Murmuring Judges (1991)
• The Absence of War (1993)
• Skylight (1995; revived in London and on Broadway, in 2014 and 2015, respectively)
• Amy's View (1997)
• Ivanov (1997; revised and revived 2015) (adapted from Chekhov)
• The Blue Room (1998) (adapted from Arthur Schnitzler)
• The Judas Kiss (1998)
• Via Dolorosa (1998)
• My Zinc Bed (2000)
• Platonov (2001; revived 2015) (adapted from Chekhov)
• The Breath of Life (2002)
• The Permanent Way (2003)
• Stuff Happens (2004)
• The Vertical Hour (2006)
• Gethsemane (2008)
• Wall (2009)
• The Power of Yes (2009)
• South Downs (2011)
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers (2014) (adapted from Behind the Beautiful Forevers)
• The Seagull (2015) (adapted from Chekhov)
• The Moderate Soprano (2015)
• The Red Barn (2016) (adapted from La Main by Georges Simenon)
• I'm Not Running (2018)

Television, film and radio scripts

• Licking Hitler (1978)
• Dreams of Leaving (1980)
• Wetherby (1985)
• Plenty (1985) - based on his play
• Strapless (1989)
• Damage (1992)
• The Secret Rapture (1993) - based on his play
• The Absence of War (1995) - based on his play
• The Hours (2002) - based on the novel by Michael Cunningham
• The Corrections (2007) - based on the novel by Jonathan Franzen
• My Zinc Bed (2008) - based on his play
• Murder in Samarkand (2008) - based on the memoir by Craig Murray, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan
• The Reader (2008) - based on the novel by Bernhard Schlink
• Page Eight (2011) (also directed)
• Turks & Caicos (2014) (also directed)
• Salting the Battlefield (2014) (also directed)
• Denial (2016)
• The White Crow (2018)
• Collateral (2018)

Directing credits

• Licking Hitler for BBC1's Play for Today (1978)
• Dreams of Leaving for BBC1's Play for Today (1980)
• Wetherby (1985)
• Paris by Night (1988)
• Strapless (1989)
• Paris, May 1919 (1993) (TV episode)
• The Designated Mourner, written by Wallace Shawn (1989)
• Heading Home (1991) (TV film)
• The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) (Broadway play by Joan Didion starring Vanessa Redgrave)
• Page Eight (2011) (also wrote)
• Turks & Caicos (2014) (also wrote)
• Salting the Battlefield (2014) (also wrote)