About the Playwright
Greetings! I’m Vincent, and I love writing plays with a genre-bent. This means science fiction, horror, fantasy, adventure, western, crime, and mystery stories. But as high-concept as these ideas are, I never make fun of the material. In fact, I ensure my characters are rooted in their honest-to-goodness stakes. I have found that this seemingly contradictory place is where the magic happens: the duality of spectacle and thought-provoking conversation. Audiences seem to agree.
My plays have been produced Off-Off Broadway (City Gate Productions), Chicago (Oil Lamp Theater), Minneapolis, Orlando, and elsewhere. These include my own Frankenstein; a Gothic haunted-house-werewolf tale; a Lovecraftian Civil War western; an evil disembodied hand; and a musical about what happens when tap dancing killer sharks rain down (nothing good)!
I would love to share these stories with you and your audiences. Let’s connect and see what’s possible.
My Playwriting Bio
Vincent S. Hannam is a playwright specializing in character-driven genre stories. He holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Central Florida; an MA in Teaching from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota; and apprenticed under Stephanie Yankwitt at the Hangar Theatre Lab Company. He resides in Minneapolis with his family, dreaming of new worlds.
Full length plays: FRANKENSTEIN (City Gate Productions, Off-Off Broadway; Oil Lamp Theatre, Chicago; 3rd Act Theatre; Hampstead Stage Company), LOOKING FOR FUN(BAGS) (NYC Bad Theater Festival; Minnesota Fringe), THE MIDNIGHT HOUR (Rogue Theater Festival, NYC), SHARKNAMI: THE MUSICAL? (Orlando Fringe; Valencia College), WOLFSBLOOD (FINALIST – Inkslinger Playwriting Contest, Southeastern Louisiana University), THE DEVIL’S OUTLAWS (FINALIST – UCF Pegasus PlayLab)
Short plays: THE HAND THAT WASHED ASHORE (Twin Cities Horror Festival, Minneapolis), HOW TO CATCH GHOSTS AND MAKE FRIENDS DOING IT (Lakeshore Players, Minneapolis), THE DEVIL’S RIGHT HAND (Utah State University; FINALIST – Theatre Du Mississippi; FINALIST – ATHE New Play Development Workshop), US GRANT & LINCOLN LOG (Commonweal Theatre; SEMI-FINALIST – MN Short Play Festival), THE OASIS (Small Fish Radio, Chicago), JAY & JULIA (In Heart Theatre, Minneapolis)
