Martelle Hammer

Actor, The Turn of The Screw

Martelle Hammer is an actor, director, producer and musician and WAAPA graduate. Martelle has performed on stage and screen in Australia and internationally. 

She has worked with Elizabeth Kemp, co-director of the Actor’s Studio and Labyrinth Theatre Company in New York and prior to this, with the Gardzienice Company in Poland. 

Martelle’s WAAPA credits include:

• The Caucasian Chalk Circle, 
• The Seagull,
• As You Like It, 
• Co-devising First and Last with Black Swan Theatre Company. 

On graduating, she co-founded Vis’aVis’ creating Do Dogs Dream of Angels, touring it upon invitation to the European Cultural Festival in Krakow. 

Martelle has toured Australia extensively with shows and played with theatre companies across Sydney. Credits include:

Solitude in Blue (Griffin),

Sugarbomb (TRS), 

Tooth of Crime (The Wharf) 

She has also produced shows across these companies, including The Lights (B Sharp, Belvoir St), in which she also performed. 

Martelle has played over 20 screen roles in both shorts, TV, and features. One Less God won Best Picture and official selection across festivals in LA. She just wrapped the season of L’hotel directed by Craig Illot at the Sydney Opera House.