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BARBARA HAMMOND |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Barbara Hammond, a New Dramatists resident playwright since 2011, is a 2010 Edward Albee Foundation Fellow, a Yale Playwrights Festival mentor playwright, a member of the Dramatists Guild, and was named one of the Influential Woman of 2011 by the Irish Voice. Her plays and film have been seen in and won awards from the far-flung - Berlin, Dublin, London, Paris, Big Sur and Queensland, Australia - to New York City, where she is a long-time resident of the Lower East Side. She received the Special Jury Award at the First Irish 2009 Theatre Festival, the Directors Special Recognition Award at the 2007 San Francisco International Short Film Festival, and was a finalist at the Tennessee Williams One-Act Play Festival and the Kerouac Project.
Plays by Barbara Hammond
Beyond the Pale | ||
| 1st Produced: | St. Peter's Rectory, 346 West 20th Street, NY | 10 Sep 2009 | ||||
Company: | Gad's Hill Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #103411 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | 1st Irish Theatre Festival, NYC | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in Northern Ireland at the brink of the twenty-first century, and populated by Dubliners in search of a home in the North, this modern Irish play explores that ribbon of border that separates countries, lovers, brothers and friends. | |||||
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Breakfast in the Hamptons | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139374 | |||
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Genre: | one act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | At 5am, Breakfast in the Hamptons takes place as a writers botched suicide attempt in a wealthy friends pool is interrupted by a young womans nude sunrise swim. | |||||
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Eva The Chaste | ||
| 1st Produced: | Clurman Theatre | 06 Jul 2011 | ||||
Company: | Fallen Angel Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138718 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | 75 minutes. The first in The Eva Trilogy. Enter the Roar and No Coast Road to follow. | |||||
Synopsis: | Eva the Chaste immerses the audience in the pivotal passions and pressing responsibilities of a woman whose twenty-year sprint away from her past comes crashing to a close as dawn breaks over Dublin Bay. Hammond set out to reveal, through the use of spoken thought, a genuine and intimate portrait of a woman at the crossroads, both literally and figuratively, of her life. The script, set in Dublin and Paris, explores the profound and unpredictable bond between a mother and a daughter; the grasp for life at the approach of death; and the road to hell shining, smooth and paved with good intentions. | |||||
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June Weddings | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139391 | |||
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Genre: | one act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | June Weddings catches the Russian émigré and barfly Sonja drinking screw-top champagne and reading Chekhov as father-of-the-groom RJ slips in to a Washington Heights corner bar for a quick one and to practice his speech between ceremony and reception. | |||||
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Little Birds | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139375 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | one act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Little Birds offers up two East Village hold-outs in Tompkins Square Park, bemoaning the loss of the good old days when the squatters ruled and the playgrounds were empty | |||||
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New York in June | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139371 | |||
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Genre: | three one acts | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | varies | |||||
Notes: | 3 one-act plays: Breakfast in the Hamptons, Little Birds and June Weddings. Film: June Weddings (written and directed by Hammond) with Tom Noonan, Elzbieta Czyzewska and Ivan Martin | |||||
Synopsis: | New York in June presents three one-acts that all take place on a June morning. At 5am, Breakfast in the Hamptons takes place as a writers botched suicide attempt in a wealthy friends pool is interrupted by a young womans nude sunrise swim. Little Birds offers up two East Village hold-outs in Tompkins Square Park, bemoaning the loss of the good old days when the squatters ruled and the playgrounds were empty. And June Weddings catches the Russian émigré and barfly Sonja drinking screw-top champagne and reading Chekhov as father-of-the-groom RJ slips in to a Washington Heights corner bar for a quick one and to practice his speech between ceremony and reception. | |||||
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Norman & Beatrice: A Marriage in Two Acts | ||
| 1st Produced: | Connelly Theatre | Feb 2006 | ||||
Company: | Synapse Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #47194 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | What if you couldnt remember what you thought youd never forget? Norman and Beatrice's elegant structure seeks to challenge the very nature of who we are and who we might become, both as individuals and in partnership with another, as the titular couple have a quiet lunch in the last years of their life together in the first act, followed, in the second act, by a flashback to another noon-time meal, in the early days of their marriage, with all its hope and promise as-yet unfulfilled. An exploration of how the major events of the latter half of the twentieth century affects an ordinary family in the American Midwest. | |||||
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Paper Tigers | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Parish Players, Thetford Hills, Vermont | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Arclight Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139372 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | drama 90 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A cottage on Delavan Lake in Wisconsin with windows smashed by a baseball bat and broken locks on the doors provides an unlikely haven for a family reunion for a young runaway, her veteran father, and two brothers who keep inventing new ways to disappoint themselves and one another. A play about what time doesn't change, and what secrets might best be left buried. | |||||
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Summerland | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139373 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | drama 90 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | An English couple escape their routine in suburban Darlington at a Caribbean island retreat run by a widow from New Orleans and haunted by a young painter hovering on some vortex between James Dean, Arthur Rimbaud and Pocahantes. Their marriage is turned inside out as art and the artist fascinates one of them and infuriates the other. | |||||
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