Anne Hamilton

editor

Anne Hamilton is a NYC-based freelance dramaturg and the Founder of Hamilton Dramaturgy, an international consultancy. She co-authored the best-selling textbook Dramaturgy: The Basics (Routledge, 2023) with Walter Byongsok Chon. She created Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow!, a limited oral history podcast series of important theatre women working in America. Anne has dramaturged for Andrei Serban, Michael Mayer, Lynn Nottage, NYMF, Niegel Smith, Classic Stage Company, and the Great Plains Theatre Festival, among others. She is also an award-winning playwright. She recently served as the English language consultant on An English Theatrical Translation of Korean Plays by Myung-Wha Kim, a four-play volume translated by Walter Byongsok Chon. She won a Daesan Foundation 2022 Grant for the Translation of Korean Literary Works, to support this project, as well as a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship. Her chapter, “Freelance Dramaturgs in the 21st Century: Journalists, Advocates and Collaborators” appears in The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy. She completed two Bogliasco Foundation Fellowships (2024, 1998), won the Dean’s Prize for Dramaturgy at Columbia University School of the Arts, and holds dual citizenship in Italy and the United States.