Sarah Hammond
playwright & musical theatre writer
Full-Length Musicals
String
Book by Sarah Hammond
Music & Lyrics by Adam Gwon
*NEW! Now licensed by Broadway Licensing. Licensing info and perusal materials available here.
A workaholic Greek goddess gets tangled up with a security guard in the basement of the tallest building in the world. One mistake leads to another (a lost pair of scissors, a kiss, a stolen string) and soon the oldest Fate is breaking her own rules to offer forever to an ordinary man. Can the fabric of the universe stand a flaw? An original musical about the three Fates in the modern city. [4M, 6F (flex); one intermission]
Barefoot Persephone
Book & Lyrics by Sarah Hammond
Music by Cheeyoung Kim
So you go and marry the King of the Dead and then your mother threatens to destroy the whole earth because she misses you. Growing up is tough, huh? A soul-searching update of the Greek myth about Persephone, queen of the underworld, and her mother, goddess of the harvest with a quirky score, as funny as it is haunting. [3M, 4F]
"River of Forgetting" from Barefoot Persephone.
Theatre for Young Audiences
Pete the Cat
Book & lyrics by Sarah Hammond
Music by Will Aronson
*NEW! Now licensed by Concord Theatricals. Licensing info and perusal materials available here.
For Pete the Cat, life is an adventure no matter where you wind up. So the minute the groovy blue cat meets The Biddles, he gets the whole family rocking. That is, except for young Jimmy Biddle, the most organized second grader on planet Earth. When Jimmy draws a blank in art class during the last week of school, it turns out Pete is the perfect pal to help him out. Together, they set out on a mission to help Jimmy conquer second grade art, and along the way, they both learn a little something new about inspiration. Join Jimmy and Pete on an adventure of friendship, all the way to Paris and back in a VW Bus!
Short Musicals
A collection of little bursts of musical theatrics, mostly ten-minutes long, most for pairs of actors, mostly 1M, 1F. Seen onstage at the Cornelia Street Cafe, Barrington Stage Company's 10-Minute Musical Festival, Milwaukee Rep's Apprentice Showcase, and on Sarah's kitchen table. Scripts available upon request. The short works include "People Are Dancing" (w. Benny Gammerman), "Jack + Jill" (w. Emily Goldman), "Yellow Egg / Blue Egg" (w. Will Aronson), "Cloud + Goat" (w. Cheeyoung Kim), "Eleanor and the Cardboard Man" (w. Adam Overett), and "After Edgar" (w. Bob Kelly).
Listen to "Jack + Jill."
Listen to "People Are Dancing."