Jazmine Rush, Academy Class of ‘13, is currently working in Chicago’s Shattered Globe Theatre performing in Stew. The production, written by Zora Howard, is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist and, most recently, was nominated for a Jeff Award, an honor given in Chicago for excellence in theater.

Academy alum Jessie Davidson has joined the cast of Pretty Woman – The Musical. She is cast as lead woman, Vivian Ward, replacing Olivia Valli in the Northern Tour of the show.

Last August, young theater artists from the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Half-Day Program traveled across the pond to the annual “Festival Fringe” in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Hartford Magazine’s list of 2022 list of notable “40 under 40” features two alumni of the Academy, Miles Wilson-Toliver 2013 and Jasmine Agosto 2006. Singing worldwide since age 9, Miles always felt a calling to use music for a higher purpose. Recently, he is the founder of “Voices of Hartford.” As the group’s director, he mentors citizens in Hartford’s north end helping black artists in the region.