18: Making the Classics Her Own with Kate Hamill, Playwright
Talking Theater
English - October 17, 2017 11:46 - 36 minutes - 29.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsPerforming Arts Arts Business Careers acting actor actorsequity actress arts broadway directing director offbroadway playwright Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Kate Hamill is a playwright and actor based in New York City.
In 2014, her adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility premiered off-Broadway where it was named in the "Top 10 Theater of 2014" by both Ben Brantley of the NY Times and by the Huffington Post, which called it “the greatest stage adaptation of this novel in history.”
Sense and Sensibility was remounted off-Broadway in 2016, and it was nominated for Best Revival by the Drama League, it also received 2 Lortel nominations, and it won the Off-Bway Alliance Award for Best Unique Theatrical Performance.
Recently, American Theatre listed Kate in the Top 20 most-produced playwrights for 2017-18 and Sense and Sensibility is also listed in the Top 10 most-produced plays.
Kate's other plays include Vanity Fair (nominated for an Off-Bway Alliance award), Pride and Prejudice (which just completed its premiere at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and will move off-Broadway in November 2018), The Little Fellow (an O’Neil semi-finalist), Love Poem, Little Women, In the Mines (a folk musical and Sundance Lab semi-finalist), and EMMA (a Red Bull New Play finalist).
Kate has also acted in theatres in New York and across the country, including the Bedlam, the Youngblood, Cherry Lane, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, and Theatreworks.
As a writer, Kate specializes in stories about people who struggle to reconcile the demands of society with the dictates of their consciences.
Kate earned her BFA in Acting from Ithaca College.