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Hall, Roger
Roger Hall was born in England in 1939 and emigrated to New Zealand in 1958. He worked first for State Fire Insurance, later working as a teacher and editor with the Education Department before winning the Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago in 1977. Hall was based in Dunedin as teaching fellow in the English Department where he taught the playwriting course, until he moved to Auckland in 1995.

Hall's early scripts were for television, but in 1976 he wrote his first stage play Glide Time. Many successful play productions followed, together with musicals, pantomimes, radio dramas, books and plays for children and comedy series' for television. His plays have been performed in 9 other countries. Hall is New Zealand's best known dramatist with more than 40 plays to his credit.

In recent years, he has written the box office hits Spreading Out (2004), Taking Off (2004) and Who Wants to be 100? (2007) as well as the pantomimes Cinderella, Aladdin and Jack and the Beanstalk (with songs by Paul Jenden and Michael Nicholas Williams) and in 2007 co-wrote the commissioned work Who Needs Sleep Anyway? celebrating Plunket's Centenary with his daughter Pip Hall.

NB:- Several of Roger's plays have EXPANDABLE casts - click on title to check

After The Crash
Comedy, Cast: 8 (5 female, 3 male)

Aladdin (Hall 2)
Children’s Theatre/Pantomime, Cast: 7 (2 female, 5 male)

By Degrees
Drama, Cast: 4 (4 female, 0 male)

C'Mon Black
Comedy, Cast: 1 (0 female, 1 male)

Cinderella (Hall2) with Music
Children’s Theatre/Pantomime, Cast: 9 (3 female, 6 male)

Conjugal Rites
Comedy, Cast: 2 (1 female, 1 male)

Dirty Weekends
Comedy, Cast: 8 (4 female, 4 male)

Dream Of Sussex Downs
Drama, Cast: 10 (4 female, 6 male)

Dynamite
Comedy, Cast: 11 (4 female, 7 male)

Fifty Fifty
Comedy, Cast: 5 (2 female, 3 male)

Flexi Time
Comedy, Cast: 7 (1 female, 6 male)

Footrot Flats
Comedy, Cast: 8 (4 female, 4 male)

Glide Time
Comedy, Cast: 7 (1 female, 6 male)

Hark, Hark The Harp
Comedy, Cast: 7 (2 female, 5 male)

Hot Water
Comedy, Cast: 8 (4 female, 4 male)

Jack and the Beanstalk (Hall-Jenden-Williams)
Pantomime, Cast: 8 (4 female, 4 male)

Love Off The Shelf
Comedy, Cast: 8 (4 female, 4 male)

Making It Big
Drama, Cast: 8 (4 female, 4 male)

Market Forces
Comedy, Cast: 7 (3 female, 4 male)

Middle Age Spread
Comedy, Cast: 6 (3 female, 3 male)

Mr Punch
Drama, Cast: 1 (0 female, 1 male)

Multiple Choice
Drama, Cast: 16 (5 female, 11 male)

Pirates Witches & Robbers
Comedy, Cast: 7 (3 female, 4 male)

Prisoners of Mother England (POME)
Drama, Cast: 12 (6 female, 6 male)

Robin Hood
Pantomime, Cast: 18 (3 female, 15 male)

Social Climbers
Comedy, Cast: 6 (6 female, 0 male)

Spreading Out
Comedy, Cast: 7 (4 female, 3 male)

State Of The Play
Drama, Cast: 6 (2 female, 4 male)

Take A Chance On Me
Comedy, Cast: 8 (4 female, 4 male)

Taking Off
Comedy, Cast: 4 (4 female, 0 male)

The Birthday Burglar
Comedy, Cast: 16 (8 female, 8 male)

The Book Club
Comedy, Cast: 1 (1 female, 0 male)

The Book Club (Australian Version)
Comedy, Cast: 1 (1 female, 0 male)

The Hansard Show
Drama, Cast: 11 (5 female, 6 male)

The Quiz
Drama, Cast: 6 (0 female, 6 male)

The Rose
Drama, Cast: 7 (2 female, 5 male)

The Share Club
Comedy, Cast: 8 (3 female, 5 male)

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Where Would A Songwriter Be Without Love?
Comedy, Cast: 4 (2 female, 2 male)

Who Needs Sleep Anyway?
, Cast: 8 (4 female, 4 male)

Who Wants to be 100?
Comedy/Drama, Cast: 6 (2 female, 4 male)

You Gotta Be Joking!
Comedy, Cast: 1 (0 female, 1 male)

You Must Be Crazy
Drama, Cast: 4 (2 female, 2 male)

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