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 is currently a Teaching Artist for ¡Oye! Group, an Obie-award winning Brooklyn based artistic community and creative incubator. She’s also completing an in-school residency as an Assistant Teaching Artist with Pink Fang (formerly Ping Chong & Co). In NYC, Megan has appeared as an actor in venues such as A.R.T/New York, Provincetown Playhouse, Brooklyn Art Haus, and The Tank. Regionally, she has performed at Greenbrier Valley Theatre and the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival. Overseas, Megan has acted at venues such as the Belltable in Ireland and the Festival Fringe in Scotland. Through her puppeteering work, Megan has had the opportunity to perform for Little Amal through Processional Arts Workshop in collaboration with St. Ann’s Warehouse and at The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts with Basil Twist. 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.