Biography
Patty Kim Hamilton is a poet-playwright, dramaturg, director and performance artist, based between the US and Germany. Her work exists at the intersection of the intimate and the political - meditating on bodies, language and memory. ‘’Peeling Oranges’’ received the Heidelberger Stückemarkt Radio Play Prize (SWR), the second Nancy Dean Lesbian Playwriting Award, the second Else Lasker Schüler Prize, and the Jane Chambers Award for Feminist Playwriting. ‘Sex Play/Re: Jane Doe’ premiered at Schauspielhaus Graz, November 2022 and will have a production at Theater Bielefeld in March 2023. Patty studied at Stanford University (BA Theatre and performance studies) and Universität der Künste Berlin (Diplom Szenisches Schreiben).
She is a mentor for the Diverse Voices Program through the European Theatre Convention, mentoring playwrights at the Belarus Free Theater (through the Young Vic London) and at Staatstheater Braunschweig. She has had a research residency at HELLERAU: European Center for the Arts funded through the Fonds Darstellende Künste. In 2018 she produced and choreographed the immersive performance installation 'the crane wives', which premiered at SOMOS Art House, while concurrently running the drag-adjacent, feminist performance collective JUICY! In Europe, she is represented by Suhrkamp.
