Megan Hamm

Megan Hamm (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. She is an actor, director, deviser, educator, and puppeteer. Growing up in a part of North-Eastern Ohio where one can become lost amongst the breath of nature, Megan draws inspiration from the choreographic, the understory that connects us all, and the overstory we reside in. Wanting to explore non-speaking communication on stage, she expresses character's thoughts through movement. Megan uses a body-based investigation practice of Authentic Movement to create new forms of expression. She involves rigorous research into the interpersonal relationships between humans and non-humans. Her process generates poetic performance scores that indicate the thoughts of the non-speaking beings represented on stage. The core of each piece itches the primal instinct that resides in all of us. Megan emphasizes the loss of persons, arts, and cultures that resulted from various humanitarian crises. As she sees it, the ongoing man-made climate crisis is the biggest catastrophe we will face together. Every walk of life will be affected; we will experience upheavals of biblical proportions. 

 

Megan has had the opportunity to perform as a puppeteer for Little Amal through Processional Arts Workshop in collaboration with St. Ann’s Warehouse. She has also puppeteered at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts with Basil Twist. She has performed overseas at the Belltable in Ireland and the Festival Fringe in Scotland. Megan received her MFA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College and is a Certified Teacher of the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique through the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium.