Patty Kim Hamilton is a playwright, performance artist, director and dramaturge. She studied scenic writing at the UdK Berlin. She received her bachelor’s degree in theater and performance studies from Stanford University, where she was awarded the Sherifa Omade Edoga Prize for socially-focused work. Her play Peeling Oranges received the SWR Hörspielpreis at the Heidelberger Stückemarkt and the Jane Chambers Award for Feminist Playwriting. Her play when it hurts // this body is just a house was a semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference and part of Cimientos with IATI Theater (New York). Another of her pieces, Sex Play, was invited to the ENGAGE Festival Graz by the European Theatre Convention and received workshop productions at the HfMT, as well as at Theaterdiskounter as part of the Wildwuchs Festival. Hamilton has also worked with Gob Squad and as a writing assistant on a German Netflix series. At Ballhaus Naunynstraße she participated in the writing workshop Unconventional Signs – neue postmigrantische Theatertexte in the 2020/21 season. Her play Auf dem Mars sieht die Welt so aus, which she wrote during the workshop, premiered at Ballhaus Naunynstraße in February 2023.