In this episode I am happy to have a very talented guest with me. Gin Hammond is an actress and author, and her book is now out, Returning the Bones. Gin talks about her personal connection to the book and how she ventured to seek out relatives she had never met to learn more about her own background and stories from her family’s history.
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Guest Info:
Gin Hammond is a Harvard University/Moscow Art Theatre MFA graduate and a certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework™. She has performed nationally at theatres such as The Guthrie, Arena Stage, The Longwharf Theatre, The Pasadena Playhouse, the ART, The Berkshire Theatre Festival and The Studio Theatre in Washington D.C., where she won a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actress for her performance of The Syringa Tree. Internationally, she has performed in Russia, Germany, Canada, Ireland, Scotland, England, and Belgium.
Ms. Hammond also received a Kathleen Cornell award, and WA state grants from Allied Arts, The Mayor’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, Artist Trust, 4 Culture, as well as from the NEA, and has recently been nominated for a WA State Governor’s Arts & Heritage Award. Hammond teaches voice, voice-over, public speaking, and dialect coaching, and can be heard on commercials, audiobooks, radio plays, and a variety of video games including BattleTech, DotA 2, State of Decay 1 & 2, and Halo 3 ODST.
She is also author of the soon-to-be released novel, Returning the Bones, and cofounder of the MFA: Meditations for Actors mobile app.
Links:
Gin Hammond’s Website: https://www.ginhammond.com
Returning the Bones (book): https://www.returningthebones.com
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