Faculty Bio

Wendy Hammond Assistant Arts Professor Tisch Asia Phone: +65 6500-1762 Email: wendy.hammond@mac.com Office: Room 03-13

Courses

Head of Playwriting

Biography

Wendy Hammond’s plays have been produced by New York City theatres (Soho Rep, Second Stage, Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art), by regional theatres (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Long Wharf, S.L.A.C., Charlotte Rep, Purple Rose), and in London, Tel Aviv, Milan and Rome.  Her works include Julie Johnson (published by Dramatists Play Service and in an anthology by Smith & Kraus), Family Life: 3 Brutal Comedies (published by Broadway Play Publishing), Jersey City, and The Hole at the Purple Rose Theatre, which was nominated by the American Theatre Critics Association for best new American play, and Road Rage: A Love Story which was commissioned by the Purple
Rose developed at the O’Neill Center, and in a workshop process at Steppenwolf Theatre starring Jeff Perry and Amy Morton.

Ms. Hammond wrote the screenplay for Julie Johnson, produced by Shooting Gallery Films, co-written by director Bob Gosse, starring Lili Taylor, Courtney Love and Spalding Gray.  The film premiered in the Sundance Film Festival and played in film festivals all over the world winning many awards including Best Feature in the Barcelona Film Festival and an Audience Award in Berlin. She wrote the screenplay for A Beautiful Life produced by Calla productions, starring Jesse Garcia, Angela Sarafyan, Bai Ling, and Dana Delany.  Ms. Hammond wrote and directed the short film, Lehi’s Wife, through AFI’s Directors Workshop for Women, now in post-production. James Greene and Kathryn Joosten star in the film.

Ms. Hammond is a recipient of an NEA grant, an NYFA grant, a McNight Fellowship and a Drama League Award.  She has been invited twice to the Sundance Play Unit, twice to the O’Neill Center, five times to New River Dramatists and is New Dramatists alumnus.  She holds an MFA from New York University’s Dramatic Writing Program, an M.Div. from Yale Divinity School, and worked in the Chesterfield Writers Project. She has taught playwriting and screenwriting courses in several universities including Brown University, Connecticut College.  She has also taught in the Sewannee Writers Conference, the Writers at Work Conference, and in the prison ward of Bellevue Hospital.  For five years she served on the faculty of the University of Michigan. 
 
Currently she is working on a play, Ecstacy: The Enigma of Joseph Smith, an historical fantasy of the wild life of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church.
She lives with her beloved husband and amazing son.