barbara hammond

Hot Review: "Brecht, Love and Taylor Mac": I write the occasional essay for Hot Review, a forum for serious critical writing on theatre, past and present, with an emphasis on contemporary theatre in New York City. This essay is about the downtown genius singer/playwright/performer Taylor Mac and the Bertold Brecht play in which a man plays a woman who disguises herself as a man in order to survive.
Hot Review: "How to Stay a New York Playwright": This essay, How to Stay a New York Playwright, was written in the summer of 2010, during the run of Eva the Chaste on Theatre Row. Hot Review is a forum for serious critical writing about the theatre, past and present, with an emphasis on contemporary theatre in New York City.
Scripts & Scribes: I was interviewed in Signature Theatre Lobby in June 2012 about my life as a writer. In this ten minute video -- and the follow-up one-hour audio interview -- I discuss writing plays for both sides of the Atlantic, what's important to me about being a woman, and the difference between writing for theatre and film.

ENGLISHMAN IN BERLIN: Link to blog on Eva the Chaste reading in Berlin in September 2010

NEW DRAMATISTS: New Dramatists is dedicated to the playwright, and pursues a singular mission: to find gifted playwrights and give them the time, space, and tools to develop their craft, so that they may fulfill their potential and make lasting contributions to the theatre.

FALLEN ANGEL THEATRE COMPANY: Fallen Angel Theatre Company is committed to presenting in New York the most outstanding and daring new British and Irish plays by women writers. It produced Barbara Hammond's Eva the Chaste on Theatre Row in July 2011.
1st IRISH THEATRE FESTIVAL: Origin Theatre-fueled festival brings the best of European theatre to New York City each September. BEYOND THE PALE won the Special Jury Award in the 2009 festival.