In this profile series, Revry is highlighting authentic contributors to the LGBTQ media and entertainment community. We ask questions to find out who they are and where they are going in the future. The questions remain the same but the answers tell their unique story. It’s time to explore and celebrate true representation beyond the limits of Hollywood.

Whitney Hamilton is an award winning director as well as an actress, writer, producer and editor. Her play UNION graced off-broadway. It was made into an epic period film bought by Lionsgate. While researching for UNION she had to embed herself in the ranks of Civil War reenactors and pass as a boy or be thrown off the field. While directing she had to do so in drag and sometimes on horseback.  She is a member of Film Fatales in NYC and for a while was part of [Your Name Here] A Queer Theater Company before the pandemic. She is presently in development on a television pilot for a limited series called, OLYVE, as well as an episodic historic drama, THE PRIVATEERS.

What are you best known for?

UNION. It’s a feature film about a woman who takes on her dead brother’s identity, Henry, in order to survive the U.S. Civil War and ends up marrying a widow to help save the widow’s farm. They fall deeply in love and their story becomes legend passed down to generations in the Appalachian mountains.

What were the first things you worked on?

JOHNNY SUEDE was the first thing I acted in. MY BROTHER’S WAR is the first thing I directed and the prequel to UNION that we made for a dollar and a dream in 2004. It picked up North American distribution and was on Netflix for a while (DVD). It is now streaming free on Tello films, Plex and Xumo.

What are you working on that no one knows about yet?

A long lost cousin I became acquainted with during the pandemic told me about our Great-Great Aunt who left a tiny town in Texas in the 1920’s for Los Angeles and became a costume designer during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She had a lifelong love affair with an actress. I would love to make a film about her life.