Biografia
Lisa Hammer is a writer, director, producer, editor, actress and singer/composer. She is best recognized as the voice of Triana Orpheus on the Adult Swim cartoon The Venture Bros, as well as for her extensive music career as a singer-songwriter. Her film "Empire of Ache" was recently honored with a screening at the MoMA and Nighthawk Cinemas, in the film series "Future of Film is Female" and in Heidi Honeycutt's book "I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies". It was also acquired by the Getty Museum's Feminist Film Collection, curated by Miranda July.
Hammer has directed the independent feature films "Pox" and "Pus$bucket", and the CMJ Film Festival winner The "Invisible Life of Thomas Lynch" which she co-directed with James Merendino (SLC Punk). She has worked as an editor on "Punk's Dead: SLC Punk 2", "Montauk" (with Molly Ringwald), "Out of Order" (With Brooke Shields), "Before Someone Gets Hurt", "Great Kills", "The History of Steampunk: a documentary", her musical comedy feature "The Sisters Plotz" (with Eve Plumb) "The Sisters Plotz" premiered at The Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood and Anthology Film Archives in NY. Her original series Maybe Sunshine is available on Seeka TV (ROKU).
Lisa has collaborated with Ben Edlund (The Tick, Firefly, Angel, Supernatural) and Doc Hammer (The Venture Bros) on multiple projects. She created "The Pox Show" starring H. Jon Benjamin (Archer, Jon Benjamin Has a Van), Jonathan Katz (Dr. Katz), and Arden Myrin (Orange Is the New Black, Inside Amy Schumer). Lisa directed and produced the award-winning weekly NY cable TV show "Turn of the Century" with Dame Darcy, Courtney Love and Thurston Moore, now a number one series on Nighflight Plus.
Lisa has directed such names as: Clayne Crawford (Jericho, Swimfan), Lisa D'Amato (America's Next Top Model), Jimmy Duval (Donnie Darko, SLC Punk!), and Russell Sams (The Rules of Attraction), Eve Plumb (The Brady Bunch), Allen Lewis Rickman (Boardwalk Empire, A Serious Man), Yelena Shmulenson (Boardwalk Empire, A Serious Man, OITNB) and Aryn Cole (All My Children).
Lisa's films have won awards from the CMJ Film Festival, Telly Awards, Hugo Awards, It Came From Kuchar Film Festival, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Canada International Screenplay Festival, Ontario Film Festival, Antimatter, Indieworks, two from New York Press, and many more. She has had one-woman shows at the Olympia Film Festival, Perth International Film Festival, and the Duolun Art Museum in Shanghai, China.
Her latest endeavors include: Cinematographer/actor and co-creator of James Merendino's "Great Kills" (On Roku, Tubi and Amazon), producer and editor for Levi Wilson's "Luke and Emma and a Gas station on Franklin Avenue", acquired by AMC+, executive producer of "Montauk", starring Molly Ringwald, her award-winning screenplay "Ghostapus", and gigs as on-set and assistant editor for "Out of Order" starring Brendan Routh and Brooke Shields, producer on "Suh Buh Duh", starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Eric Roberts, and directing her own female-body-horror film "Under the Midnight Sun" starring Kevin Corrigan, Ruben Rabasa and Eve Plumb.
Acting credits include: The Venture Bros, Great Kills, 90 Days of Games, Bull, Sex and the City, The Networker, Monster Hunt, The Sisters Plotz, Beneath the Black Moon, Maybe Sunshine, The Invisible Life of Thomas Lynch, Washington Heights, Frankenstein and the Monster from Blood Cove, Venus ATTACKS!, Mary Knows Best, Distraction, Sex and the City, Terror Lab, GoDaddy commercial: Related, Pox, Pus$bucket, Rub, Period Piece and an extensive theatre repertoire.
She was also lead singer of the gothic rock bands Mors Syphilitica, The N.C.S. and Requiem In White. An avid singer and composer, she has CD releases on Projekt Records and an indie band, Radiana, with indie guitarist/composer Steven Deal (Chopper/Bleached Black) and The Terror Twins: Bloody Ballads with brother James Merendino. Her music has been used in films such as Alucard, Montauk, Until Someone Gets Hurt, Punk's Dead, Beneath the Black Moon, Idle Worship, and Pox. The music from her band Radiana is featured in the original series Maybe Sunshine, directed by husband Levi Wilson.
