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, Tel Aviv, Singapore and Melbourne. The Hole was nominated by the American Theatre Critics Association for best new American play. 

Wendy’s screenplays include Julie Johnson, produced by Shooting Gallery Films 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 awards including Best Feature in the Barcelona Film Festival and an Audience Award in Berlin. Wendy produced, wrote and directed the short film, Lehi’s Wife, through American Film Institute’s Directors Workshop for Women, starring James Greene and Kathryn Joosten.  

Recently, Wendy’s essays have been published in literary magazines, including, “We Are All Broken” in Under The Sun. She is now 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, a Masters of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hunter College. She has taught playwriting and screenwriting courses in several universities including Brown, Brooklyn College, NYU, and TischAsia School of the Arts in Singapore. She now lives, writes and teaches in the New York City area, and she is the proud mother of the amazing Will who is studying sculpture at Mason Gross School of the Arts.