Donna Devlin-Hammond

Donna Devlin-Hammond accepted Jesus Christ and was saved in August 2016. She has always had a passion to tell stories, beginning with an attempt in 2nd grade to direct West Side Story. But since her salvation, she has been on fire to make sure those stories transform, transport and transcend beyond the secular, always pointing back at Jesus and his saving grace and love for us all.

Having begun her career in musical theatre, Donna was accepted into and attended NYU's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts before switching her attention to film and television.  This actress/producer/director/writer started her first production company while still in college--creating, writing, producing and/or directing projects in such diverse realms as

 

--Music videos (for rap stars such as Biggie Smalls, Doug E Fresh and Flavor Flav as well as serving as the in-house video crew for CBGB’s) where her work was regularly featured on MTV, Fox TV, Canada's CTV and Much Music
--TV commercials—under the mentorship of Donnie “Big Idea” Deutsch, her company, Band Productions, produced hundreds of regional and national campaigns for clients such as Volvo North America, Sports Illustrated, Procter and Gamble, Hewlett Packard and Ikea.
--Feature-length documentary films and short films that have been featured on Entertainment Tonight, A & E, NBC, CNN and ESPN.

Her work in these realms has garnered Telly Awards, daytime Emmy nominations and awards at the Cannes, Houston and Vancouver Film Festivals. In the USA, she has worked as a producer for Warner Brothers TV (and in Canada, for CTV and the Canadian Broadcast Corporation and EMI Records) before being invited to serve as one of the first female Film Commissioners in her home state of New Hampshire.

 

Since returning to her "first love" (theatre), as an actress, she's attended the world-renowned Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, U.K. and has appeared in London as Gertrude (HAMLET) and Maria in the world premiere of TWELFTH NIGHT: THE MUSICAL, among others. She’s a veteran of day and prime time television, feature films and many broadcast tv commercials as well as NYC, regional and national theatrical tours and her work has been featured in Time Out and as a “Pick of the Week” by the NY Post. She has directed, produced and/or written over 70 productions and, in addition to the dozens of newspaper and magazine articles written about her unique approach to Shakespeare (including The New York Times and numerous Boston Globe articles) she counts as some of her biggest honors having both her production of AS YOU LIKE IT (and her performance as Rosalind) selected as “The Best of The Best” by the Greater Boston Area Theatre Critics Awards and receiving a 2011 NH Governor’s Special Commendation for her body of work and accomplishments.