BIOGRAPHY
Kate Hamill
A.R.T.: Bedlam's Sense & Sensibility. Kate is an actor/playwright. Her plays include Sense & Sensibility (in which she originated the role of Marianne; Winner, Off-Broadway Alliance Award; Drama League Award nomination for Best Revival; 265+ performances Off-Broadway). Other plays include Vanity Fair (in which she originated the role of Becky Sharp; Off-Broadway Alliance Award nomination), Pride and Prejudice, In the Mines (Sundance Lab semi-finalist), Little Women, Em (Red Bull New Play finalist), Little Fellow (O'Neill semi-finalist). Additional acting credits include: Bedlam's The Seagull; Internet Famous, Youngblood; Dreams of A... Marsupial Girl, PearlDamour; Cyrano (upcoming), Amphibian Stage; numerous independent films. Kate's plays have been produced Off-Broadway, at the Guthrie Theatre, Seattle Rep, PlayMaker's Rep, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Folger Theatre (8 Helen Hayes Award nominations; Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Production, Sense & Sensibility), and others. Upcoming productions at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arvada Center, Jungle Theatre, and more. Kate is currently working on new adaptations of Little Women, 20K Leagues Under the Sea, and The Odyssey, as well as several new original plays, including Love Poem and Prostitute Play. She was one of 2016's top twenty most-produced playwrights in America; Sense & Sensibility was one of the top ten most-produced plays.