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" As someone who lives with an animal, I think it's important to learn how to responsibly care for souls who don't have their own voice. They can't advocate for themselves. "
Michael Arden
Voice
Animal
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" Sometimes, disaster can inspire ingenuity. "
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" I had a sort of rocky upbringing, and I think the theater was a safe place for me. "
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" I found that the same things I loved about performing were the things I liked about directing and creating a piece - striking a chord that was in tune with the world and was reflecting back what I saw, just from a different angle. "
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" Kelli O'Hara is incredible. "
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" My grandparents, Jim and Pat Moore, were an incredible couple. They drove me to the community theater, where I did plays as a kid. "
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" Magic in plays and musicals, I think, is more often created because of the work of an incredible company rather than a single component. "
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" Haiti is a proud nation, rich in heritage and spirituality. How they have been able to not only survive but thrive is a testament to how the Haitian people have come together to rebuild, create new families, and care for one another. "
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" I think Rafael Nadal is pretty spectacular. I have a feeling he might be part animal. "
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" The deaf community has shaped me as an artist and a person, and I am very grateful that I have been able to share and create so much art with a group of people I would have never imagined sharing and creating with. It's a true testament to the power of theater. There are no walls. "
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" My dream would be to have 50 people in a show with each person from a different country. "
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" It's my goal to help actors achieve their best work, and I think I speak the same language as actors, so I understand how they do it, and I just love being able to create the playground in which they build their beautiful sandcastle. "
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" Every decision you make has a consequence. "
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" I refuse to go onstage without looking into the eyes and touching everyone I'm working with... we're all in it together, and everyone's an equal part when we're onstage. "
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" The most exciting thing I've seen is directors not only being open to actors coming in the room with different abilities but actively looking at ways that the story can be enlarged with disabled actors. "
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Looking
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Different
" It's exciting to share an art form that I would never have imagined sharing with the deaf community. Doing musicals, it's not like, 'Oh, I'll do a musical with a deaf person.' "
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" At its core, 'Spring Awakening' is about the perils of miscommunication and what happens when people are denied a voice. "
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" I would want everyone to love someone in the purest sense of the word - an unconditional love in which you don't expect anything in return. "
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" We don't ever realize how precious life is while we're living it. "
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" Growing up as a gay boy in West Texas, I definitely felt like a bit of an outcast sometimes - that there was a world that I would never be a part of. "
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" The love I have for my husband is intertwined with his, and we are two individuals looking in the same direction - as opposed to staring in each other's eyes all the time. "
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" The protest that we go to or the time that we stand up for someone or do the right thing - despite its difficulty... We might not see the return of it, but who knows whose lives we can change by doing those things. "
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" I've played gay, and I've played straight... I'm proud to be a gay man myself, and I'm thrilled to get the opportunity to play a variety of different gay men. "
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" Unless we build theater and performing arts, then we're not going to be creating future patrons. We need to make it accessible. "
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" I think all my favorite directors have acted. They understand how an actor thinks. "
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" I would love to create a piece of theater that is devised by a company of actors and creators that I'd put together, and I'd love for it to be nonverbal so it's something that someone with any communication ability can enjoy. "
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" So many gay men are mothers to so many young people, me included. I've had gay men who were more mother to me than my own mother ever was. "
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" We learn the most from listening, and I don't just mean with our ears. "
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