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Barbara Hammond

BARBARA HAMMOND

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Gurman Agency LLC  

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.

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

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

         Beyond the Pale         Breakfast In the Hamptons         Enter the Roar         Eva the Chaste         June Weddings         Little Birds         New York In June         Norman & Beatrice: A Marriage In Two Acts         Paper Tigers         Summerland

Beyond the Pale

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.

Notes:
1st Irish theatre Festival, NYC

1st Produced:
St. Peter's Rectory, 346 West 20th Street, NY     10 Sep 2009

Organisations:
Gad's Hill Theatre Company

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Breakfast In the Hamptons

Synopsis:
at 5am, Breakfast in the Hamptons takes place as a writer's botched suicide attempt in a wealthy friend's pool is interrupted by a young woman's nude sunrise swim.

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Genre:
one act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Enter the Roar

Synopsis:
enter the Roar - is the second play in Barbara Hammond's the eva Trilogy. the one-hour play take place a month after the events of eva the Chaste, in present-day Dublin, at a sentencing hearing at the Dublin Four Courts, with legal, philosophical and hystErical weigh-ins from France, the UK and across the globe. In eva the Chaste, the titular character states: And what is a life in which we never crack it open - eternally cut off from ourselves -only dimly-aware of the power of Life Itself as the roar of the culture, the roar of society, the roar of the family, out-roars the voice of the individual heart. the roar enters in the form of eva's sister Teresa, her husband eamon, a hospice worker and a priest, as well as the wider net that has been cast by the media and political whirlpool spinning 'round them.

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1st Produced:
Dramatists Guild
Frederick Loewe Room, 1501 Broadway, Suite 710, New York, NY 10036     26 Oct 2012

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Eva the Chaste

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.

Notes:
75 minutes. the first in the eva Trilogy. enter the Roar And No Coast Road to follow.

1st Produced:
Clurman theatre
410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036     06 Jul 2011

Organisations:
Fallen angel Theatre Company

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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June Weddings

Synopsis:
June Weddings catches the Russian emigre 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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Genre:
one act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Little Birds

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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Genre:
one act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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New York In June

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 writer's botched suicide attempt in a wealthy friend's pool is interrupted by a young woman's 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 emigre 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.

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

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Genre:
three one acts

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  varies

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Norman & Beatrice: A Marriage In Two Acts

Synopsis:
What if you couldn't remember what you thought you'd 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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1st Produced:
Connelly theatre
220 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10009     01 Feb 2006

Organisations:
Synapse Productions

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Genre:
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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Paper Tigers

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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1st Produced:
The Parish Players, Thetford Hills, Vermont     2006

Organisations:
arclight Theatre

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Music:
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Genre:
Drama 90 min

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Summerland

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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Genre:
Drama 90 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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