Hannah Viederman is a multi-hyphenate actor, writer, and producer, based between NY and Washington DC. She is driven by work that wrestles with the paradoxes of contemporary life, that boldly reimagines the classics, and that lives at the nexus of the arts and social impact. Hannah currently produces theater on the Artistic team of Arena Stage, under Artistic Director Hana Sharif.
Hannah was an original company member of Drunk Shakespeare in Washington DC, a core company member of the immersive company Eggtooth Productions, and a co-founder of the Brooklyn-based physical theater company WrenchWorks. She is a collaborator on the piece Where You End and I Begin, to premiere at MASS MoCA in Winter 2025. Hannah is the co-creator and writer of ‘Tis Pity, an adaptation of John Ford’s Jacobean masterpiece, ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore, which she is currently adapting and producing for an immersive audience after a staged workshop at Gymnopedie in May 2023.
She is the author of the novel SOME BODY, represented by Sophie Cudd at The Book Group, and is currently at work on a one-woman show about seeing dead people.
Hannah has worked as a Senior Project Coordinator with Claiming The Justice Narrative, an intergenerational performance project led by formerly-incarcerated individuals and developed through Broadway Advocacy Coalition’s Theatre of Change course, as well as a coordinator for the Arts, Justice, and Safety Coalition at Columbia University’s The Confined Arts. Her passion for the intersection of the arts and community-led advocacy has led her to work as a Field Director for a New York City Council campaign, a teaching artist with Punchdrunk Enrichment’s US pilot teacher-led project, a classroom-based student support liaison, an arts mentor for youth and neurodiverse adults in the theatrical arts, and a creator of original work.
Hannah received her BA magna cum laude from Macalester College and a certificate in classical acting from LAMDA. She has studied classical voice and music theater with Jen Waldman Studio, Andrew Byrne, Samantha Joy Pearlman, Katy Pfaffl, and Nautilus Music Theatre.