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Hamilton Clancy was born and raised in New Orleans, LA and has been working in New York City as a professional actor since 1990--having trained undergraduate at The Catholic University of America and in the M.F.A. program at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego.

2007 marks Clancy's eighth year as leader of TheDrillingCompaNY which he founded in 1999. He has conceived, dramaturged, produced and co-directed over sixteen new evenings of theatre, In the Car, Neighbors, While You Wait, Fathers, Connections, The Service Project, Theft, Paper, Both, Honor, Part One, Honor, Part Two, Revenge, Part One, Revenge, Part Two, Security, Part One, Security, Part Two and this June will present Justice, commissioning over one hundred and fifty short works for the theatre and producing over 100 of those commissioned.

Producing credits with TheDrillingCompaNY also include Peter Killy's Windows on the World for The New York International Fringe Festival, Dealers by Neil Olsen at 78th Street Theatre Lab, Big Apples by Stephen Bittrich at the Access Theatre, Hamlet, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Tempest, and As You Like It with Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, Mistletoe Madness with Scott Baker, HO! by Brian Dykstra, 2G a new adaptation of Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona with The Shakespeare Project's Play Outside Festival, and Mutant Sex Party by the award winning Edward Manning.

Plays commissioned by TheDrillingCompaNY have appeared in the Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival, Florida Studio Theatre, Cornell University, New York's Hip-Hop Festival, The New York Fringe Festival, and many others. They have been published by Smith and Krause, Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts.com and in it's entirety, Honor, Part One by the New York Theatre Experience in Plays and Playwrights 2004. Works originally initiated by TheDrillingCompaNY have been recognized by the Pulitzer Prize committee, the Heidemann Award, and New York Innovative Theatre Awards.

As an actor Hamilton has appeared in television, film Off-Broadway and throughout the country in regional theatres. After gaining early experience in dinner theatres outside of Baltimore and Washington, playing leads in such standards as Chicago, Carousel, South Pacific, Anything Goes and 1776, he came to New York where he broke into Off-Broadway with Darrell Larson and Lois Smith in Dog Logic at The American Place Theatre. He followed that with several appearances in the experimental Offerings led by his mentor (and Founder/Artistic Director of The American Place Theatre) Wynn Handmann.

In New York he continued to lead appearances of new work Off and Off-Off Broadway. At the Workhouse Theatre he premiered Ouana Maria Hock Kajal's Exchange at the Cafe Mimosa, and Jonathan Bolt's To Culebra. He appeared in Tracers, The Window directed by Sue Lawless, and an early workshop of Kander and Ebb's Steel Pier, directed by Scott Ellis (and became an original member of the Workshop Theatre).

He led Mississippi Repertory's The Night of the Iguana and appeared in Hamlet as Hamlet for New York's Shakespeare in the Parking Lot. Other notable New York appearances include Brian Dykstra's one man show, HO!, an original short version of Will Eno's solo performance work, Thom Paine (based on nothing), the New York premiere of Tom Strelich's Dog Logic with Lois Smith and John Savage at The America

Karen Kitz, Producing Associate

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As an actress, in New York originated the role of Vanessa in Daddy's Home by Reneé Flemings at The Henry Street Settlement and The Actors' Studio Theatre at Raw Space, for which she was nominated for a best actress award by Frank Calo's 2001 Spotlight On Festival. She has performed in myriad venues in and around NYC, including New York Theatre Workshop, 78th Street Theatre Lab, McGinn/Cazale Theatre, Vital Theatre and PSNBC@HERE. Regional roles include Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Kate in Taming of the Shrew, Beneatha in A Raisin in the Sun, and Sara in Stop Kiss.

Film roles include the lead in the independent short Life's Calling, winner of the 2002 Houston International Grand Jury Prize and one of fifteen short films chosen for the Maui Film Festival. She has done numerous commercials and industrials.

Since the Fall of 1999, she has been a founding member and Associate Producer for TheDrillingCompany, and has appeared in all of its productions to date: In the Car, Neighbors, While You Wait, Fathers, Connections, Service, Theft, Paper, Revenge, Honor and Security. Her responsibilities with TDC include all areas of theatrical production, including play selection and casting, office and box-office management, volunteer and intern management, press relations, and special events execution and planning.

TheDrillingCompany is a full member of ART/NY.

She did her undergraduate work at Towson University (BS, biology) in Maryland before moving to New York to study theatre at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1986. In 1988, she was one of 10 students at AADA selected to participate in a cultural exchange to the (then) Soviet Union, where she performed works by great American writers in Moscow (at the Moscow Art Theatre), Tallinn and Frunze. She is also a graduate of New York's William Esper Studios and a member of Actors' Equity Association and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.