Rod Hall (literary agent)
Roderick Thomas Berringer (Rod) Hall (27 April 1951 – 21 May 2004), literary agent who represented several successful British writers.
Having worked for London agency A.P. Watt, he set up his own, the Rod Hall Agency , in 1997.
Hall was found dead, with multiple stab wounds, in his Southwark, south London, England apartment.
Following his death, the films "Driving Lessons" and "Imagine Me & You" as well as the stage play Mercury Fur were dedicated to him.
Clients
Hall's agency represented more than 60 writers, including:
- Simon Beaufoy (wrote The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire)
- Jeremy Brock (wrote Mrs. Brown)
- Lee Hall (wrote Billy Elliot)
- Liz Lochhead (Scottish poet)
- Martin McDonagh (playwright)
- Philip Ridley (playwright, screenwriter, director)
- Richard Smith (wrote Trauma)
- Juliette Towhidi (wrote Calendar Girls)
- Simon Nye (wrote the television show Men Behaving Badly).