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Sarah Hammond

SARAH HAMMOND

  
Nationality:    USA
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Sarah Hammond grew up in Hong Kong, Belgium, and South Carolina. Honors include Actors Theatre of Louisville's Heideman award, a MacDowell Colony fellowship, a commission from South Coast Rep, and a residency at the Royal National Theatre. Her work has been seen onstage at Trustus Theatre, City Theatre (Miami), Live Girls (Seattle), Tulsa New Works for Women, the Bay area Playwrights Festival, Australia's Interplay Festival, and in print in Ten-Minute Plays for 2 actors: the Best of 2004. A graduate of the University of South Carolina (BA) and the University of Iowa (MFA), she has taught playwriting at both schools. Now based in Brooklyn, she is a resident playwright at New Dramatists.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Sarah Hammond's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         96 Stitches         After Edgar         Barefoot Persephone         Cancer Walking Through these Woods         Circus Tracks         Cloud And Goat         Extinction Of Felix Garden, The         Flour Cloud         Green Girl         House On Stilts         Hum Of the Arctic         Jack and Jill         Kudzu         People Are Dancing         String         Wax Work         Who Put the Dead Bird In My Mailbox?         Yellow Egg/ Blue Egg

96 Stitches

Synopsis:
the Tailor and the Tailor's Wife prepare the most glorious gowns for Wanda, the biggest diva of them all, but there's something different about this dress: This one is the most glorious ever, and the most deadly.

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1st Produced:
City Theatre (Miami)    2007

Organisations:
City Theatre (Miami)

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Play/Drama Ten Min

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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After Edgar

Synopsis:
Two young fisher girls in Connecticut have an encounter with Edgar Allen Poe

Notes:
Music by Bob Kelly; lyrics and book by Sarah Hammond

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Short musical

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Barefoot Persephone

Synopsis:
Persephone marries the King of the Dead. Her mother is not pleased

Notes:
Book and lyrics by Sarah Hammond; music by Cheeyoung Kim

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Musical

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Cancer Walking Through these Woods

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Organisations:
Actors Theatre of Louisville

1st Published:
Ten-Minute Plays for 2 actors: Best of 2004 (Smith and Kraus),    -

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Circus Tracks

Synopsis:
a circus orphan stranded in suburbia must journey through miles of freak-studded desert to find her way back to her mother under the saddest bigtop on the planet. an ensemble fairy tale for adults.

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1st Produced:
Live Girls! Theater    2008

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Genre:
comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Cloud And Goat

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Extinction Of Felix Garden, The

Synopsis:
after setting fire to an entire forest, an ex-forest ranger is required by law to move to Brooklyn. But even in the city she cant escape wilderness. theres a gargoyle catching prayers on the roof and her downstairs neighbor is raising a tiger in his bedroom. Brooke and Felix fall for each other. Felixs tiger eats Brookes cat. a love story bent on destruction.

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Workshop Production: Iowa New Play Festival    2005

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Genre:
comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Flour Cloud

Synopsis:
Two bakers and a cute baker's assistant have just seen their bakery explode, bags full of burnt muffins and a cloud of flour stand before them. then the baker's assistant decides to do something quite unexpected.

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1st Produced:
City Theatre (Miami)    2007

Organisations:
City Theatre (Miami)

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Genre:
Play/Drama Ten Min

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Green Girl

Synopsis:
a love story between a backwoods healer and a country club caddy in the Congaree Swamp where the woods are full of ghosts. With flashbacks to the Civil War and dream sequences in Afghanistan.

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1st Produced:
Staged Reading: Bay Area Playwrights Festival    2005

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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House On Stilts

Synopsis:
Haunted by a tragic Fourth of July accident, Rutherford Stub lives alone in a borrowed house on the edge of Crooktail Island, waiting for the woman across the water to wake up - until an old friend and her teenage daughter arrive, wrecking his years of quiet solitude. In the months between his unhappy birthday and the always difficult Fourth of July, hermitical Rutherfordgets a glimpse of a happier life. But when it's time to let go of the past, can he? a funny and heartbreaking tale of unexpected friendship set in the South Carolina lowcountry.

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1st Produced:
Reading; Royal National Theatre Studio, London    2009

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Genre:
Drama

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Hum Of the Arctic

Synopsis:
a deaf woman in a bathtub playing Queen at top volume, the artist who barges in on her, and the daughter who remembers it.

Notes:
Winner of the Actors theatre of Louisville's Heideman Award

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Organisations:
Actors Theatre of Louisville

1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
short play

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Jack and Jill

Synopsis:
Jack and Jill went up the hill

Notes:
Music by Emily Goldman; lyrics and book by Sarah Hammond

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Genre:
Short musical

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Kudzu

Synopsis:
a man shoots his nephew at a Civil War reenactment, a story of old wounds revived in a South Carolina family.

Notes:
also seen At Interplay Festival, Australia. 2001.

1st Produced:
Trustus Theatre    2003

Organisations:
Trustus Theatre

1st Published:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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People Are Dancing

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Genre:
Short musical

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String

Synopsis:
On a starry mountaintop above ancient Greece, a god stands with a dead girl in his arms imploring the three fates to undo his lover's death. When the impersonal fates refuse, he forces the sisters down from their place in the heavens to live and work on earth. and this is where we find our trio of thread-makers 3,000,032 years later, living in an office on the top floor of the tallest building in the world, measuring the threads of human life to a new soundtrack of fax machines and ticking clocks. they pluck and weave, marking time until the gods will let them back up to their starry mountain. all seems routine until atropos, the oldest and most severe fate, decides to go downstairs. One mistake leads to another - a lost pair of scissors, a kiss, a stolen string - and soon atropos, string-cutter, tangled deep in the web of human longing, breaks her own rules to offer forever to an ordinary man. Can the fabric of the universe stand a flaw? Quirky and contemporary with a dash of fairy tale, it's a diverse ensemble musical about sisters, offices, and love. a glimpse in a skewed glass of the threads that make relationships, how they fray, stretch thin, or hold forever, strong as elevator cables.

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Music And Lyrics by Adam Gwon, Book by Sarah Hammond

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Genre:
Musical

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Wax Work

Synopsis:
In this quirky romantic comedy, love falters and thrives at a lowcountry wax museum. the nostalgic road side attraction is awakened from its routine by the arrival of a mysterious new employee from out of town. It's a story of hurricanes, peaches and waxy icons who croon love songs to their fix-it men

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1st Produced:
Trustus Theatre    2006

Organisations:
Trustus Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Who Put the Dead Bird In My Mailbox?

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of the 9th Annual SKeTCHBOOK; New American Fable

1st Produced:
Collaboraction Sketchbook 9    2009

Organisations:
Collaboraction

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
open letter

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Yellow Egg/ Blue Egg

Synopsis:
Yellow egg wants to hatch. Blue egg doesn't think hatching is a good idea

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Genre:
Short musical

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