Hamilton Dramaturgy
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A nationwide clientele
Collaborate in person, by email, regular mail, and/or telephone.
Going to St. Ives by Lee Blessing. Starring L. Scott Caldwell and Caroline Goodall.
L.A. Theatre Works is currently featuring GOING TO ST. IVES in its Radio Theatre Series. Anne is featured as a guest commentator on the topic of Mothers and Sons in GOING TO ST. IVES, THE GLASS MENAGERIE, and ALL MY SONS. The collaborative interview is playing online NOW as well as being broadcast on each of the NPR station affiliates listed in the link below. The segment will be available on the LATW site for several weeks. Visit station websites for broadcast times. Listen to the piece online at http://www.bigcontact.com/latw Enjoy!
Read Anne’s Article on the Open to Hope website
Anne’s lead article “Writing Poetry Helps Decades After Friend's Death" appeared on the Open to Hope website on July 24th. You can continue to access it directly by clicking here.
Click here to listen to Quiara Alegria Hudes on TheatreNow!
HamiltonLit A Fire in 2009 - Click here for a list of successes!
Listen to TheatreNow! on Anne's Blog at http://hamiltondramaturgy.wordpress.com
Read Our Latest Issue of ScriptForward!
Leading American Actress Kathleen Chalfant (WIT, ANGELS IN AMERICA) starred in
Anne's ten-minute play AND THEN I WENT INSIDE
at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City
at 8pm on Monday, November 9th. The League of Professional Theatre Women produced this New Play Festival.
ANNE'S PLAYS AND POETRY Win Places in Pen and Brush's TRANSITIONS Exhibit
Anne's plays ANOTHER WHITE SHIRT, and THE STACY PLAY - A LOVE SONG - VOLUME I and her poem GONDOLIER can now be read online in the TRANSITIONS exhibit at www.penandbrush.org, one of the oldest and most prestigious women's arts collectives in the US. Anne expanded AND THEN I WENT INSIDE into THE STACY PLAY.
The exhibit will be online through September 3rd. New Yorkers can visit the exhibit and read the plays weekdays at 16 East 10th Street in Manhattan.
Read about our Rave Reviews!
ANNOUNCEMENT: Listen to the inaugural podcast of TheatreNow!
(also at http://hamiltondramatugy.wordpress.com)
Featuring an in-depth discussion with Quiara Alegria Hudes,
(ELLIOT, A SOLDIER'S FUGUE, and the Libretto for IN THE HEIGHTS,
which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama)
Hudes talks about her artistic development and writing process.
Linsey Bostwick edits the series,which is audio only.
Please listen to the following podcasts on our TheatreNow! website
at http://hamiltondramaturgy.wordpress.com
Claire Lautier, Actress
Ruth Margraff, Musician/Composer/Writer
Kristin Marting, Director/Artistic Director, HERE
Valentina Fratti, Director
Catherine Filloux, Playwright
Yvette Heyliger, Playwright and Director
Yvonne Farrow, Actor and Choralographer
Coming Soon:
Lynn Nottage, Playwright (Pulitzer Prize Winner and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow
Anne Kauffman, Director
Anne was featured in an April 2008 article on innovative American dramaturgs.
Drs. Gloria and Heidi Horsley interviewed her June 11th on their radio internet show "Healing The Grieving Heart". Listen to the podcast of her thoughts and experience on the topic of Healing Through the Arts.
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If you are serious about writing, and the process of succeeding as a professional, you will be hard-pressed to find a better guide than Anne. She is intelligent, compassionate and insightful in relation to the writing process. She is encouraging, relentless, and practical in relation to the professional process. Don't miss out on a chance to collaborate with the best.
Clients have gone on to win the Pulitzer Prize, the MacArthur “Genius” Award, the Tony ® Award, and a Royal Court International Residency. They have also won major American playwrighting prizes and become best-selling authors. Hamilton Dramaturgy services include script development, production dramaturgy, workshops, and master classes. STAGE DIRECTIONS magazine named Anne a “trailblazer” in American dramaturgy.
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Memberships: Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas
( LMDA - www.lmda.org )
League of Professional Theatre Women Past Co-Secretary
( LPTW - www.theatrewomen.org/ )
Works by Women (www.meetup.com/worksbywomen/)
The League of Professional Theatre Women is an advocacy organization for reinforcing the positive image of, promoting the visibility of, and increasing the opportunities for women in the arts and entertainment industries, more particularly the professional theatre, thereby enriching the culture with the infusion of women's creativity.
Anne Hamilton is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.
Photos of Anne Hamilton and Playwright Alex Beech by Dan Z. Johnson (c) 2008
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Hamilton Dramaturgy is an international dramaturgical practice located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania on the East Coast of the United States. Also known as "The Genius Belt", this peaceful area filled with farms has been the home and workplace of the composers Oscar Hammerstein II and Stephen Sondheim, and the novelists Pearl S. Buck and James Michener. Tel: 215-536-1074.
