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In the classroom, his work with actors is known for its incisiviness and persistence with their growth.<ref>{{cite web | author=Lucia Mauro| year=April 26, 2002| title=Kate Harris| format= | work=PerformInk Online | url=http://www.performink.com/Archives/stagepersonae/2002/HarrisKate.html| accessdate=2006-10-25}}</ref> |
In the classroom, his work with actors is known for its incisiviness and persistence with their growth.<ref>{{cite web | author=Lucia Mauro| year=April 26, 2002| title=Kate Harris| format= | work=PerformInk Online | url=http://www.performink.com/Archives/stagepersonae/2002/HarrisKate.html| accessdate=2006-10-25}}</ref> |
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He received the PlayMaker Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 18th annual PlayMakers Ball on October 29, 2005. The recipient of two Los Angeles Drama-Logue Awards and the Florencio Award of the Association of Uruguayan Theatre Critics, Hammond was a 2005 Triangle Theatre Person of the Year.<ref name="UNC">{{cite web | author=| year=October 19th, 2005| title=Director, playwright David Hammond to receive PlayMaker Award| format= | work=News from the College of Arts and Sciences | url=http://www.artsandsci.unc.edu/news/news.xml?id=7528 | accessdate=2006-10-02}}</ref> |
His play "Luminosity" was listed as one of the top ten shows of 2004 in [[North Carolina]] by ''Classical Voice of Carolina''.<ref>{{cite web | author=Robert W. McDowell, Scott Ross, & Alan R. Hall| year=January 1, 2004| title=ARTICLE: Robert’s Reviews Chooses The 10 Best Shows of 2004| format= | work=Classical Voice of Carolina | url=http://www.cvnc.org/reviews/2005/012005/10BestOf2004.html| accessdate=2006-10-25}}</ref> He received the PlayMaker Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 18th annual PlayMakers Ball on October 29, 2005. The recipient of two Los Angeles Drama-Logue Awards and the Florencio Award of the Association of Uruguayan Theatre Critics, Hammond was a 2005 Triangle Theatre Person of the Year.<ref name="UNC">{{cite web | author=| year=October 19th, 2005| title=Director, playwright David Hammond to receive PlayMaker Award| format= | work=News from the College of Arts and Sciences | url=http://www.artsandsci.unc.edu/news/news.xml?id=7528 | accessdate=2006-10-02}}</ref> |
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David Hammond is a director and acting teacher in the American theater.
Education
Hammond trained at the Jules Faber Studio and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. He also attended Harvard and graduated magna cum laude with a concentration in Elizabethan literature.[1]
Teaching and directing
David Hammond was a teacher at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.[2] There, he directed the Crucifier of Blood in 1979.[3] He has also spent 21 years at the PlayMakers Repertory Company, 14 of which as artistic director. He also served as an acting teacher in the Conservatory program.[4] He staged the United States premiere of Simon Bent's A Prayer for Owen Meany.[5] In 2004 his production of "The Nutcracker" was staged at the University of Michigan.[6]
He teaches at Harvard, UNC-CH, and NYU, is contemplating directing projects in Italy and South America, and writing a book on Shakespeare.[7] He has also written songs.[8]
Reception
The New York Times called his production of "The Philanderer" at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1982 "not Shavian", but notable for an exuberance that was called "engaging".[9] His production of the play by George Bernard Shaw was called "superbly cast" with "sublime" staging.[10]
In the classroom, his work with actors is known for its incisiviness and persistence with their growth.[11]
His play "Luminosity" was listed as one of the top ten shows of 2004 in North Carolina by Classical Voice of Carolina.[12] He received the PlayMaker Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 18th annual PlayMakers Ball on October 29, 2005. The recipient of two Los Angeles Drama-Logue Awards and the Florencio Award of the Association of Uruguayan Theatre Critics, Hammond was a 2005 Triangle Theatre Person of the Year.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Director, playwright David Hammond to receive PlayMaker Award". News from the College of Arts and Sciences. October 19th, 2005. Retrieved 2006-10-02.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|year=(help) - ^ Orla Swift (April 16, 2006). "Man of a Thousand Faces". News and Observer. Retrieved 2006-10-26.
- ^ "Production History". American Conservatory Theatre. January 1, 2006. Retrieved 2006-10-10.
- ^ Robert C. Page III (December 25th, 2005). "Hammond ankles as PlayMakers a.d. Stage man will return in the fall with emeritus status". Variety. Retrieved 2006-10-02.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|year=(help) - ^ Kenneth Jones (October 13, 2003). "PlayMakers Rep Has U.S. Premiere of Owen Meany Oct. 15-Nov. 30; Tandy Cronyn is Mrs. Meany". Playbill.com. Retrieved 2006-10-12.
- ^ "The Nutcracker". University of Michigan Music Department. January 1, 2006. Retrieved 2006-10-25.
- ^ Byron Woods (January 4, 2006). "$150 theater tix in '06?". The Independent Weekly. Retrieved 2006-10-09.
- ^ David Hammond (November 18th, 2004). "Fast Asleep Analysis". Nano See, Nano Do. Retrieved 2006-10-10.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|year=(help) - ^ Mel Gussow (December 9th, 1982). "STAGE: 'THE PHILANDERER'". New York Times. Retrieved 2006-10-12.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|year=(help) - ^ Robert W. McDowell (January 1, 2005). "REVIEW: PlayMakers Repertory Company: Caesar and Cleopatra Ends PRC'S 2004-05 Season on a Very, Very High Note Indeed". Classical Voice of North Carolina. Retrieved 2006-10-09.
- ^ Lucia Mauro (April 26, 2002). "Kate Harris". PerformInk Online. Retrieved 2006-10-25.
- ^ Robert W. McDowell, Scott Ross, & Alan R. Hall (January 1, 2004). "ARTICLE: Robert's Reviews Chooses The 10 Best Shows of 2004". Classical Voice of Carolina. Retrieved 2006-10-25.
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