Alumni & Destinations
Recent Destinations
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Joel Harper Jackson
Professional Diploma: Musical Theatre
Standing at the Sky’s Edge, National Theatre
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Jasmine McIvor
Theatre Arts Advanced
Wicked (Movie Adaptation)
The Hammond Alumni
The Hammond has been supporting the development of hugely successful students for over a century, growing and developing, changing and adapting, ensuring our graduates meet the rigorous demands of the performing arts industry or are able to excel in a range of fields which utilise the extensive skillset a Hammond education equips students with.
As part of the extensive Hammond rebrand, we have built this website to focus on the accomplishments of students, past and present, whilst being inviting and informative for prospective students wishing to join our tradition of success.
Over the years we have lost touch with many of our valued alumni, and as we enter 2025 we will be refocusing efforts to develop our Alumni programme. We have big plans - including the building of a profile database which will chart the development of The Hammond over the years through your experiences as students, from this we will facilitate not just engagement with the school, but with each other. Watch this space for Alumni events, newsletters, mentoring programmes, and bespoke opportunities for you to get involved with The Hammond as it is today.
For now, if you’d like to reach a member of the Alumni team about anything, please click below or email: alumni@thehammond.co.uk.
Meet Our Alumni
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Course: Professional Musical Theatre
Ensemble in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, Connie in Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Sheffield Crucible); Miss Crookshank/ Tammany/ Hendrika’s Mother/Ensemble in Miracle on 34th Street (Liverpool Everyman); Anita in West Side Story (Estonian National Opera); 1st Cover Deena / 2nd Cover Lorrell in Dreamgirls (Savoy Theatre); Ensemble in Wind in the Willows (London Palladium and UK Tour Original Cast); Ensemble in Mack and Mabel (Chichester Festival Theatre and UK Tour).
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Course: Lower School Dance & Professional Musical Theatre
Upon graduating from the Hammond, Jordan went on to study at Royal Academy of Music (PGDipRAM), with funding from the Sir Elton John Scholarship & Help Musicians UK. Based in London and West Berkshire, Jordan is now a writer & composer, as well as an award-winning music director.
He is a prominent creative in the Off-West End, receiving high praise for his music direction of the actor-musician revival of Ragtime at Charing Cross Theatre in 2016. Since then, Jordan has gone on to win two Off-West End Theatre awards and a BroadwayWorld UK Award, as well as being at the musical forefront of many significant UK and world premieres. He made his West End conducting debut in 2020, conducting the Donmar Warehouse revival of City of Angels at the Garrick.
Full credits can be found here: https://www.jordanli-smith.com/home
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Course: Senior Drama (now Theatre Arts Advanced)
Lem is very proud to be the first person of colour to play Dewey Finn in School Of Rock (International Tour). He was also a finalist on The Voice UK (BBC), where he first worked with Sir Tom Jones.
Theatre credits include: Choir of Man (Mimi Ohio Theatre, USA); HouseFire (Metta Theatre); Billionaire Boy (Nuffield Southampton Theatre/UK Tour); Pricilla Queen Of The Desert (Queens Theatre); The Hundred And One Dalmatians, One Love: The Bob Marley Musical (The REP); Boxed (The Vaults) and Ragtime (Charing Cross Theatre).
Workshops include: Little Bits of Light (National Theatre); Back To The Future (Colin Ingram Ltd); The Rise And Fall Of Reginald Perrin (The REP).
Online credits include: Cells: A Musical Film (Metta Theatre/ Royal & Derngate Northampton/Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch/The Stephen Joseph Theatre).
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Course: Professional Musical Theatre
Credits include: Ensemble / Cover Rudolpho, Matilda The Musical, (Cambridge Theatre, London); LA / Ensemble, Gypsy, (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Ensemble / Cover Rudolpho / Cover Doctor / Cover Escapologist / Cover Sergei, Matilda The Musical, (Cambridge Theatre, London); Swing, Mary Poppins, (International Tour); Skimbleshanks / Assistant Dance Captain / Cover Munkustrap, Cats, (Royal Caribbean / Really Useful Group); Harry, Chicago Das Musical, (Palladium Theater, Stuttgart); Ensemble / Cover Amos Hart, Chicago The Musical, (Royal Caribbean / NAMCO) Television & Film Include: Ensemble, Mary Poppins, (Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway); Dancer, Matilda The Musical, (Netflix Workshops); Featured Dancer / Jimmy Carr Double, 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, (Channel 4 / Endemol) Cast Recordings: Chicago Das Musical.
Co-founder of The Intensive, a week-long programme of workshops & masterclasses with the UK's top creatives & award winning performers, alongside fellow Hammond Alumni, Josh Donovan. Find out more: https://www.theintensive.co.uk/
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Course: Professional Musical Theatre
Joel has recently starred in Cock at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. Other theatre credits include the lead role of Charlie Price in the UK tour of Kinky Boots, the UK tour of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Jesus Christ Superstar at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in London, Beautiful – The Carole King Musical at London’s Aldwych Theatre and Che in Evita at the Ljubljana Festival in Slovenia. He will appear in Matthew Warchus’ film adaptation of Matilda for Netflix, due for release in December 2022.
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Course: Lower School Dance & Professional Musical Theatre
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella (Gillian Lynne Theatre), (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (London Palladium, West End); Emmie Sparrow In Brass the Musical (Union Theatre); Princess Jasmine In Aladdin (New Brighton Floral Pavillion); Ensemble U/S Ulla The Producers (International Tour); Ensemble U/S Lisa Housman Dirty Dancing (UK Tour); Ensemble Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Leeds Playhouse & UK Tour); Demeter in Cats (Royal Caribbean); Ensemble Red Hot Broadway (China Tour).
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Course: Lower School Dance
George has danced with English National Ballet, the National Ballet of Romania and the Royal Ballet of Flanders. He joined The Australian Ballet in 2017, and was promoted to coryphée in 2022. Repertoire highlights: Drosselmyers Assistant in Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker; Faun in Stanton Welch’s Sylvia; The Mad Hatter, Fish, Dormouse and Gardener in Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland©; Tim Harbour's Filigree and Shadow; Hairdresser in Alexei Ratmansky’s Cinderella; Aligator Crawl in Graeme Murphy’s Grand.
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Course: Lower School Dance
In 2010 Harriet became a member of the ensemble of the STAATSTBALLETT KARLSRUHE, for the 2013/14 season ballet director Birgit Keil appointed her soloist and in 2016/17 principal soloist.
She danced Moyna and Myrtha in Peter Wright's Giselle , Brünhild in Peter Breuer 's Siegfried and leading roles such as Anastasia in Youri Vámos' Sleeping Beauty - The Last Tsar 's Daughter, Odette/Odile in Christopher Wheeldon's Swan Lake , Katharina in John Cranko 's The Taming of the Shrew and Miss Bürstner in Davide Bombana's The Trial.
She also danced Mrs. Cratchit, the Christmas Ghost, and the Spanish Dance and Crystal Waltz in Youri Vámos' The Nutcracker: A Christmas Carol . Most recently she created Misia Sert in Terence Kohler's The Little Black One / the riot of spring and Edith Frank in Reginaldo Oliveira 's Anne Frank.
In the 2016/17 season she was in the title role as well as Effie in Peter Schaufuss's La Sylphide , as Die Fremden Fürstin in Jiří Bubeníček's Rusalkaand in the title role of Reginaldo Oliveira 's Anne Frank.
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Course: Professional Dance
Lamaar Manning is currently performing on the Dua Lip Future Nostalgia World Tour as a dancer. Previous credits include: The Voice, Reebok, Pixie Lott, Katy Perry, JD Sports, Radio 1 Big Weekend, the Brit Awards, MTV Music Awards.
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Course: Lower School Dance
Daniel trained at The Hammond and in 2009 was invited to attend The Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow. Worked with choreographers such as Nacho Duato, David Roberston and performed around Russia including the Bolshoi Theatre, also touring to Athens and New York. Graduated under Valery Anisimov in 2013 receiving diploma & special honours. Daniel then joined the ballet company of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre in that same year and became a coryphee in 2014. Together with the LNOBT’s ballet company he performed in Italy and Poland.
Repertoire includes: Russian Soloist (“The Nutcracker”), Gnome Soloist (“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”), Cactus and Conductor (“Cipollino”), Sprite (“The Snow Queen”), Mafia (“Carmen”).
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Course: Professional Musical Theatre
Stage Credits: Freddy Eynsford-Hill in My Fair Lady (English National Opera, London Coliseum); Milliner and u/s Count Quintet/Leo Matienne in The Magician’s Elephant (RSC); Ensemble and u/s Emilio Estefan in On Your Feet! (UK Tour); Karim in We Live in Cairo (American Repertory Theatre); Ensemble in Hadestown (National Theatre); Ensemble and u/s Cheshire Cat in Wonderland (UK Tour); Munkustrap in Cats (Royal Caribbean); Ensemble and u/s Billy Flynn in Chicago (Royal Caribbean); Homeless Man/Junkie in Rent (Greenwich Theatre).
Film credits: Mamma Mia!…Here We Go Again!
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Course: Lower School Dance
Theatre Credits: Ensemble/Dance Captain 1st Cover Heather McNamara & Heather Chandler, Heathers (The Other Palace); Dance Captain/Ensemble, 1st cover Heather Chandler & Heather McNamara, Heathers (UK Tour); Amber Von Tussle, Hairspray (Royal Caribbean productions); Ensemble/1st cover carmen, Fame (UK Tour).
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