La Jolla Playhouse
Cory Hammond is an experienced teaching artist and director with a rich background in theatre education. Currently serving as the Lead Teaching Artist for the Young Performer's Workshop at La Jolla Playhouse, Cory specializes in improv and original piece development. Additional roles include teaching theatre in after school programs at San Diego Junior Theater, directing the "California Dreamin'" pageant at La Jolla Country Day School, and facilitating playwriting courses through Playwright's Project. Cory has also integrated arts into core subjects with Arts for Learning San Diego and contributed as a voice-over artist and scriptwriter for the American Academy of Pediatrics. A graduate of San Diego State University with a BA in Theatre and a Single Subject Teaching Credential, Cory also participated in a summer intensive at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, UK.
La Jolla Playhouse
The Tony Award-winning La Jolla Playhouse is internationally-renowned for creating some of the most exciting and adventurous work in American theatre, through its new play development initiatives, its innovative Without Walls series, artist commissions and residencies. Currently led by The Rich Family Artistic Director of La Jolla Playhouse and 2017 Tony Award winner Christopher Ashley and Managing Director Debby Buchholz, the Playhouse was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer, and reborn in 1983 under the artistic leadership of Des McAnuff. La Jolla Playhouse has had 33 productions transfer to Broadway, garnering 38 Tony Awards, among them the currently-running, Tony Award-Winning COME FROM AWAY and SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical, along with JERSEY BOYS, MEMPHIS, THE WHO'S TOMMY, BIG RIVER, as well as Billy Crystal’s 700 SUNDAYS and the Pulitzer Prize-winning I AM MY OWN WIFE, both fostered as part of the Playhouse’s Page To Stage Program. Visit LaJollaPlayhouse.org.