 He also attended Harvard College and graduated magna cum laude with a concentration in Elizabethan literature.Hammond was a teacher at the Juilliard School, the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, and the Yale School of Drama, specializing in Shakespeare and the performance of classic texts, and he directed numerous productions for A.C.T.and the Yale Repertory Theatre, including a production of George Bernard Shaw's "Philanderer", which was an "effective" production of a hundred year old play because it "exposed patriarchal assumptions that still influenced most of the audience".