Martelle Hammer

A Sydney based WAAPA graduate, Martelle Hammer is an actor, writer and musician who has performed on stage and screen in Australia and Internationally.

Career highlights are  working with Elizabeth Kemp, co-director of the Actor’s Studio and Labyrinth Theatre Company in New York and prior to this, with the Gardzienice
 

While at WAAPA, Martelle performed in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Seagull, As You Like It, and co-devised 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 since toured the country extensively with shows and played with theatre companies across Sydney, including The View Upstairs (Hayes) Solitude in Blue (Griffin), Sugarbomb (TRS), Tooth of Crime (downstairs of The Wharf) and The Lights (B Sharp, Belvoir St).
Other projects include The House Collector, written by Charlie Sanders and directed by Sheridan Harbridge and The Incorrigibles, written and directed by Melita Rowston.

Martelle's feature film “One Less God”, took home the grand jury prize for Best Feature at Dances With Films in LA as well as the Byron Bay Film Festival.

Stand out performances are L’hotel which was directed by Craig Eillot at the Opera House.
Martelle was also nominated by the Sydney Theatre Awards 2024 for Best Supporting Actress. for Turn of the Screw.
Most recently Martelle played the role of Agatha in The Children's Hour at the Fitz and she is currently participating in the Griffin Studio Program with Josipa Draisma, In Echoes.​