Patty Kim Hamilton is a poet-playwright, writer, dramaturg, director and performance artist, based between Berlin and London (and sometimes New York). Her work exists at the intersection of the intimate and the political - meditating on bodies, language and memory.  Her inspiration is drawn from the many artist-makers in her community, and the works of Ana Mendieta, Patti Smith, and Alice Birch (among others). She studied at Stanford University (BA Theatre and performance studies) and Universität der Künste Berlin (Diplom Szenisches Schreiben).

Her plays have been staged or read at Schauspielhaus Graz, Theater Bremen, Theater Bielefeld, Ballhaus Naunynstrasse and Deutsches Theater Berlin, and have received many awards and nominations.  For more specifics, see the ‘Updates’ page.

In the 2023-2024 season she was a playwright in residence at the Deutsches Theater Berlin and received a world premiere of Schmerz Camp at Theater Bremen. Schmerz Camp was published and is available in Switzerland, Austria and Germany.

Outside of the U.S. she is represented by Suhrkamp (mueller@suhrkamp.de).

Additionally, she was a mentor for the Diverse Voices Program through the European Theatre Convention, mentoring playwrights at the Belarus Free Theater (through the Young Vic London) and at Staatstheater Braunschweig.  She has had a research residency at HELLERAU: European Center for the Arts funded through the Fonds Darstellende Künste.  In 2018 she produced and choreographed the immersive performance installation the crane wives, which premiered at SOMOS Art House, while concurrently running the drag-adjacent, feminist performance collective JUICY! 

Frequent and beloved collaborators include: Christopher Adams-Cohen, Sarah Kurze, Lili Nacht, Willow Hamilton, Mia Spengler