Hattie Burton-Hill (born January 17, 1990 in Surrey) is a British playwright. A graduate of the Royal Court's Young Writers Programme, she was just 17 when her first and most well known play That Face debuted in 2007.

Early life
The daughter of sculptor and socialite Anna (nee Balfour) and businessman Edward Burton-Hill, Hattie was educated at the private boarding school Wycombe Abbey until the death of her father in 2003, at which time she transferred to St Margaret's School in order to resume living at her family home in London. She enrolled in the Royal Court Young Writers Programme while still at secondary school and through this was given the opportunity to pen her first play. She did not pursue tertiary education.

Career
Burton-Hill's debut play That Face opened at the Royal Court Theatre in July 2007. It was directed by Jeremy Herrin, who she would go on to collaborate with on several of her further productions, and starred Lindsay Duncan as the alcoholic mother Martha and Matt Smith as her son Henry. The production received critical acclaim, picking up the Evening Standard's Charles Wintour Award, Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, and Theatrical Management Association Award for Best New Play. She represented the Royal Court at the 2007 Latitude Festival before That Face transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End in 2008 with largely the same cast and again under Jeremy Herrin's direction. It has since been performed by a variety of theatre companies, including the Manhattan Theatre Club in 2010.

Her second play, Tusk Tusk premiered in the downstairs theatre at the Royal Court in March 2009. Further original productions The Acid Test and No Quarter were staged at the same venue in 2011 and 2013 respectively.

Burton-Hill took part in a one off event at the Old Vic Theatre directed by Danny Boyle in support of children's charity Dramatic Need in 2010. Her monologue The Cure was performed by Kerry Fox. She has written for the Company Pictures TV series Skins and is currently adapting her first two plays for the screen.

Private Life
Burton-Hill lives between London and New York City.

While her plays are known for their recurring theme of fractured and difficult family life, she has insisted that her work is not autobiographical in any way and that she enjoyed a happy and privileged childhood.

Hattie's mother passed away in 2006.

While in London she resides with her younger sister Iris in the sprawling Highgate home formerly owned by her parents. Despite writing mostly for the British stage, her primary residence is a brownstone walk up in Brooklyn where she lives alone.