Barbara Hammond is a member of New Dramatists, an Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellow, a mentor playwright at Yale University's Playwrights' Festival, a repeat resident at The Tyrone Guthrie Centre and an alternate for the 2010 Kerouac Project.
Her play Eva the Chaste launched its living room tour at The National Arts Club in March 2010--and has since traveled to bookstores, cafes and clubs from Shakespeare & Company in Paris to Berlin, London and Tuscany. NYC's Fallen Angel Theatre Company mounted a production at the Clurman Theatre in July 2011 starring the mesmerizing Aedin Moloney. As Eva continues to make its way around the world, two related pieces -- Enter the Roar and Elevations -- are in the pipeline, forming The Eva Trilogy.
In 2009 Hammond's Beyond the Pale won the Special Jury Award and was nominated for Best Production, Best Director and Best Actress at the Tina Santi Flaherty Awards ceremony for the 1st Irish Theatre Festival. Directed by Kevin Kittle, it was performed in a rectory in Manhattan that resembles the crumbling Northern Irish manor house where the play is set.
Her film, June Weddings (writer-director) featuring Tom Noonan, Elzbieta Czyzewska and Ivan Martin, received the Directors' Special Recognition Award at the 2007 San Francisco International Short Film Festival, was nominated for Best Short Film at the Baltimore Women's Film Festival,and was an official selection at the Austin Film Festival, NY Filmmakers at Soho House, The Henry Miller Library's Short Film Screening Series in Big Sur, the Heart of Gold International Film Festival in Queensland, Australia, and was paired with Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets by Moviehouse Brooklyn for their First-time Filmmakers screening series.
Her play Norman and Beatrice, was produced by Synapse Productions at NYC's Connolly Theatre. As a one-act, it was a finalist in the Tennessee Williams One-Act Play Contest and has had readings at Dublin’s Focus Theatre (with Tom Hickey), Dartmouth’s Hitchcock Center, The Sharon Playhouse and the Connolly Theatre (with Bill Irwin and Kathleen Chalfant).
She directed her own Paper Tigers at the ArcLight Theatre, which was also produced by the Parish Players Theatre in Vermont. Barbara's first short plays, Breakfast in the Hamptons, Little Birds and War, and her first full-length play, The Pilgrim Soul in You, were performed at Naked Angels and Ensemble Studio Theatre.
As an actor, she played Yelena with a Moscow Art Theatre-trained director and an all-Russian cast in Uncle Vanya, as well as roles with Red Earth Ensemble and other downtown theatre companies.