WENDY HAMMOND’s plays include Absence, Julie Johnson, Family Life: 3 Brutal Comedies, Jersey City and The Ghostman. They have been produced in U.S. theatres such as Second Stage, HERE, Soho Rep, Long Wharf, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Charlotte Rep, and People’s Light and Theatre. Her plays have also been produced internationally in cities including London, Milan, Rome, Singapore and Melbourne. Her screenplays include Julie Johnson which premiered in the Sundance Film Festival and won awards including Best Feature in the Barcelona Film Festival and an Audience Award in Berlin. Wendy’s personal essay “We Are All Broken” was published in the literary journal, Under The Sun. Currently she is working on a memoir, Back When I Was Crazy.

Wendy is a recipient of an NEA grant, an NYFA grant, a McKnight Fellowship and a Drama League Award. She has been invited twice to the Sundance Play Unit, twice to the O’Neill Center, to a workshop at the Steppenwolf Theatre, and several times to New River Dramatists. She is a New Dramatists alumnus, holds an MFA from New York University’s Dramatic Writing Program, an MFA in Creative Writing from Hunter College, and a Masters of Divinity from Yale Divinity School. She has taught playwriting and screenwriting courses in several universities including Brown, the New School for Drama, and NYU TischAsia School of the Arts in Singapore. She lives now in New York City area where she writes and teaches. Lately, she plays ping pong avidly and is told she’s quite talented at it.

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