A 1999 recipient of the Walt Disney Screenwriting Fellowship, Hach wrote the
screenplay for the 2003
remake Freaky Friday with
Leslie Dixon, and both were nominated for a
Saturn Award for
Best Screenplay for the film. Hach wrote the
libretto for the 2007
musical Legally Blonde, based on the Amanda Brown
novel of the same name and the
film of the same name (both 2001), and was subsequently nominated for a
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and a
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical. Legally Blonde also won the
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical. In 2008 Hach participated as a judge on the
MTV television series
Legally Blonde: The Musical – The Search for Elle Woods, created to find a replacement for the lead actress then appearing in the musical on
Broadway. Hach is the co-author (with
Mary Rodgers) of
Freaky Monday, a novel which was released by
HarperCollins on May 5, 2009. She wrote the screenplay for ''
What to Expect When You're Expecting''. ==Personal life==