Name: Jennifer (Gin) Hammond, MFA

Address:
Bellevue, WA
98004
U.S.A.

Phone:  (646) 283-8033

Email Address: gin@ginhammond.com

Current Affiliation:
Freehold Studios, All Things Voice

Position and Title: Actor/Teacher

Training:
MFA in Acting from the American Repertory Theatre for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University/Moscow Art Theatre (A.R.T./MXAT).  Studied Voice with Bonnie Raphael, Nancy Houfek, and Catherine Fitzmaurice.  Associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework.  Teachers include Dudley Knight, Phil Thomson, Phil Timberlake, Lynne Innerst, Joan Melton, Saul Kotzubei, Cynthia Barret, Micha Espinosa, Jeff Morrison, Ilse Pfeiffer, Lynn Watson, Grace Zandarski, and others.

Selected Work Experience:
Coaching/Teaching: Freehold Studios, All Things Voice for Acting, Public Speaking, and Accent Modification.  Dialect Coach for various theatres and films in the Seattle area.

Performance venues include the A.R.T., the Moscow Art Theatre, The Menagerie Theater (Cambridge, England), The Long Wharf Theatre, ACT, The Guthrie, The Pasadena Playhouse, Arena Stage, The Studio Theatre (Washington D.C.), Theatreworks, The Berkshire Theatre Festival, The Minneapolis Children's Theatre, and the Roadside Theatre in Heidelburg, Germany, Festival at Edinborough (Scotland), The Junction Festival (Clonmel, Ireland) (www.ginhammond.com for reviews)

Area(s) of Specialization:
Coaching/Teaching various private and professional clients for enhancement of public speaking and performance skills.

Professional Organizations:  Professional Organizations:  AEA, VASTA, TPS (Theatre Puget Sound), Artist Trust and TCG

Statement of Philosophy:
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Marianne Williamson from A Return To Love (as quoted by Nelson Mandela).