Martelle Hammer

Martelle Hammer is an Australian actor, co-writer, producer, and musician whose career spans stage and screen across Australia and abroad. A graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), she honed her craft with Elizabeth Kemp at New York’s Actors Studio/Labyrinth Theatre Company and, earlier, with Poland’s renowned Gardzienice Company.

Her theatre credits include: The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Seagull, and As You Like It at WAAPA, to the co-devised First and Last with Black Swan Theatre Company. After graduating she co-founded Vis’aVis, creating Do Dogs Dream of Angels and touring it to the Krakow European Cultural Festival. Sydney audiences have since seen her in The View Upstairs (Hayes), Solitude in Blue (Griffin), Sugarbomb (TRS), Tooth of Crime (The Wharf), and The Lights (Belvoir B Sharp). On screen she has appeared in more than twenty shorts and features; her film One Less God won top honours at both Dances With Films (Los Angeles) and the Byron Bay Film Festival.

Recent highlights include her critically praised turn in Craig Elliott’s immersive L’hôtel at the Sydney Opera House and her Sydney Theatre Award-nominated performance as Mrs Grosse in Turn of the Screw (2024). Martelle is currently developing new work through the Griffin Studio Programme, collaborating with Josipa Draisma on In Echoes, while also appearing in Sheridan Harbridge’s The House Collector and Melita Rowston’s The Incorrigibles.