 Brought up and educated in Coventry, Hutchinson has written stage and radio plays as well as his screenwriting.He now lives in Los Angeles, California with his second wife and adopted daughter.Writing in "Variety" in 2005, David Rooney found the Manhattan Theatre Club's production of "Moonlight and Magnolias" to be a "flimsy comedy", but that "despite its superficial exploration of anti-Semitism in 1939 Hollywood, the play is not without its pleasures".