Theatrical Literary Agent Hall Found Murdered

One of London’s leading literary agents Rod Hall, who represented amongst
others the playwrights Martin McDonagh (pictured) and Liz Lochhead, as well as
screenwriters Simon Beaufoy (author of The Full Monty), Juliette
Towhidi (who co-wrote Calendar Girls with Tim Firth) and Simon Nye
(who wrote Men Behaving Badly), was found in his London flat on 23
May, with ‘multiple knife wounds’ to his chest and stomach. The police are
treating it as a murder enquiry.

Hall, who was 53, founded his own agency in 1997, after previously setting
up the first film, television and theatre department at AP Watt Ltd in 1984.
Prior to that, he had worked as a manager at Greenwich Theatre and
subsequently in publicity at Penguin Books.

Charlotte Mann, a co-director of the agency, paid tribute to her late
colleague: “Rod was a wonderful, amazing man; a dear, loving and loyal
friend and one of the most respected literary agents in the country. He was
an inspiration to me in every way. I am devastated and will miss him
terribly as, I know, will his clients.”

– Mark Shenton