Sarah Hammond

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Email: newdramatists@newdramatists.org

 

Sarah grew up in Hong Kong, Belgium, and South Carolina. Honors include the Heideman Award, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a commission from South Coast Repertory Theatre, and a residency at the Royal National Theatre in London. Her plays Kudzu, Green Girl, Circus Tracks, and The Extinction of Felix Garden have been seen onstage at Trustus Theatre (SC), Live Girls (Seattle), Ars Nova's Out Loud Series, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Summer Play Festival, and Australia's Interplay Festival. A translation of Green Girl was part of the inaugural Undergroundzero Festival at Theatre Bielefeld, Germany. Her short plays have been seen at the Hangar Theatre, City Theatre (Miami), the Actors Theatre of Louisville, and in print in Ten Minute Plays for 2 Actors: the Best of 2004 (Smith and Kraus) and Great Short Plays: Vol. 6 (Playscripts). A graduate of the University of South Carolina Gamecocks (BA) and the University of Iowa Hawkeyes (MFA).

• GREEN GIRL
• THE EXTINCTION OF FELIX GARDEN
• KUDZU
• CIRCUS TRACKS
• HUM OF THE ARCTIC

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GREEN GIRL
Two-act Full Length Drama
4W, 2M
Flexible Set

A magic gift connects two generations of sisters in the dark backwoods of the Congaree Swamp. Visions of Afghanistan dance on their television today, while in the past America’s Civil War marches right through the living room. Still in high school, besieged by difficult ghosts and more difficult boys, a girl with green hands has to master the gift left to her by her ancestors.

Tulsa New Works for Women Award (2005). Staged reading: Bay Area Playwrights Festival (2005).
 

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THE EXTINCTION OF FELIX GARDEN
Two-act Full Length Drama
2W, 3M (1 Child)
Flexible Set

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 can’t escape wilderness. There’s 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. Felix’s tiger eats Brooke’s cat. A love story bent on destruction.

Workshop production: Iowa New Play Festival (2005).
 

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KUDZU
Two-act Full Length Drama
1W, 4M
Flexible Set

The Tillman family is trying to knit up old wounds, but life careens toward chaos when Uncle Zeb brings his nephew to a Civil War Reenactment. Circling the moment when generations clash, Kudzu excavates the story of a real life shooting on the battlefield as a professor would an artifact. All surrounded by that voracious vine, kudzu, which keeps the past and covers it, both at once.

Produced at Trustus Theatre; winner of the Trustus New Play Festival (2003). Workshop: Interplay Festival (2001).

“A brave, imaginative, well-researched work. ...Although Kudzu tells a serious story, it is also really funny.... Even here, for its first, it has the feel of something that will last.”—The State Newspaper
 

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CIRCUS TRACKS
Two-act Full Length Drama
4W, 3M
Flexible Set

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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HUM OF THE ARCTIC
10-Minute Play
2W, 1M

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

Co-winner of the Heideman Award. Produced: Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Winter Showcase (2006); City Theatre’s Summer Shorts (2006); and Live Girls Quickies (2007).