Wendy Hammond
Adjunct
Wendy Hammond’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 won many 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. Wendy’s plays have been produced Off-Broadway and in regional U.S. theatres as well as internationally. She is a recipient of an NEA grant, an NYFA grant, a McNight Fellowship and a Drama League Award. She has two MFA degrees and a Masters of Divinity. She has taught playwriting and screenwriting courses in several universities including the University of Michigan, Brown, the New School for Drama, and for six years at NYU’s TischAsia School of the Arts in Singapore. She now lives in the New York City area where she writes, teaches, and sends texts to her amazing son Will who is in Berlin studying German and art.
