Topics – Barbara Hammond

A retired army major claims an abandoned aircraft platform in international waters off the coast of Essex as his own sovereign nation, plants his flag, declares his wife Princess and their motto E Mare Libertas!

At the time he declared: "I think everybody knows we're nice people really but they know full well that if they try and invade us there will be a bloodbath."

WE ARE PUSSY RIOT

Hosted by Barbara Hammond

A talk with Barbara Hammond, documentarian Mike Lerner (A Punk Prayer, the Russian Woodpecker), journalist Melik Kaylan (The Russia-China Axis), and journalist Argemino Barro about how to make a play from an unfolding news story taking place 5,000 miles away.

Open Panel Discussion--please call (212) 757-6960 for reservations.

This session is closed to the public.

directed by Téa Alagic

A two day closed working session of Barbara Hammond's commissioned play for the Contemporary American Theatre Festival's 2015 season.

Barbara Hammond will be using space at New Dramatists to work on a brand new play.

This reading is closed to the public.

A closed working session of a new ten-character play that takes place from sunrise to sunset at a military outpost on a remote hilltop.

This reading is closed to the public.

directed by Tea Alagić

A small American town argues over whether to put a cross or a cellphone tower on its only hilltop -- as the local prison warden struggles with his friendship with a young man on death row. Visible from Four States sits at the modern crossroads of belief and communication, and the place where an individual man carries the moral burden of a nation.

Open reading--please call (212) 757-6960 for reservations.

Visible From Four States was developed during PlayTime, a program of New Dramatists.

A small American town argues over whether to put a cross or a cellphone tower on its only hilltop -- as the local prison warden struggles with his friendship with a young man on death row. Visible from Four States sits at the modern crossroads of belief and communication, and the place where an individual man carries the moral burden of a nation.

Due to weather, today's reading has been cancelled.

Visible From Four States
by Barbara Hammond
directed by Tea Alagić

Open Reading--Please Call (212) 757-6960 for Reservations.

PlayTime is made possible by major project funding from THE TED SNOWDON FOUNDATION, ISOBEL ROBINS KONECKY, THE DJ MCMANUS FOUNDATION, and THE ROBERT E. AND JUDITH O. RUBIN FOUNDATION.

Pulling together all three plays for the first time into one evening, and traveling from the library to the studio to the theatre upstairs, and from Dublin to Paris to the mountains of Corsica, this is the culmination of three years' work, which included two Creativity Funds, a New Dramatists program supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The Eva Trilogy by Barbara Hammond

The culmination of three years of writing and imaginative effort to introduce Eva to the world- through three play-hours of theatre-and from three angles-the seafront door, the courthouse on the river Liffey and the Corsican mountaintop. There will be a public showing of all three plays later in the month!

Directed by Kevin Kittle and Louisa Proske.

Creativity Fund offers playwrights the opportunity to workshop new plays or musicals for up to five days.

New Dramatists is thrilled to announce another one of our monthly low-cost writing workshops! Barbara Hammond's PERFECT TEN is a SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP appropriate for beginners as well those with completed scripts.

Please join us Saturday, November 17th from 12-3pm.

The Eva Trilogy by Barbara Hammond
Eva the Chaste, Enter the Roar, and The Great Walk
directed by Kevin Kittle, along with Rachael Hip-Flores and Louisa Proske

All three pieces; 3 plays. 3 hours. Set in Ireland, Paris and the most difficult hiking trail in Corsica.

Creativity Fund offers playwrights the opportunity to workshop new plays or musicals for up to five days.

Please join us for a reading of this new play by Barbara Hammond.

Directed by Kevin Kittle.

This reading is open to the public. Please call 212-757-6960 for reservations.

Barbara Hammond is continuing the process of the creation of The Eva Trilogy, focusing on Rue D'Élève [or, The High Road]. It has been making its way into the world via readings in NYC, Berlin, Paris, London, New Orleans, Westport and Hoboken...and a Theatre Row production last July. This one-day reading is its next step.