About Me

Jonathan Hammond is a two-time Emmy nominated writer/director. He is the co-recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Justice and Peace and accruing a San Diego Film Award for Best Writing and nominations for Best Director and Picture. He is also the recipient of two consecutive San Diego Film Con Challenge wins for Best Film, four San Diego 48- Hour Film Project Awards for Audience Choice, Four Points Film Challenge Award for Best Ensemble, San Diego CityBeat Weekly Best Of, a two-time KPBS Explorer recipient, and a WOMAS winner for Best Screenplay. He is the winner of Best LGBTQ Short at the Phoenix Film Festival, Best Dark Comedy at Georgia Shorts, and Best Director for the Austin Comedy Film Festival. He is also the winner of Best Writing for the 2016 San Diego International Fringe Festival, and his work was selected for the New Playwrights Festival at The Old Globe in San Diego. Before moving to San Diego, he attended the University of Illinois and NYU Tisch School of the Arts.