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" Helping to open up the conversation about inclusion and diversity in casting has been a dream come true. "

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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. "

" If you've never heard a piece of Mozart, then Mozart could sound scary or confusing, so it's all about learning. "

" I think Rafael Nadal is pretty spectacular. I have a feeling he might be part animal. "

" At the end of the day, we need to realize that segregation is not the human condition at its best. Which isn't to say we need to all be the same. It simply means we need to embrace each other's differences to help tell our stories together. "

" We learn the most from listening, and I don't just mean with our ears. "

" I had taken a directing class in high school. Looking back on it now, I think it was all heading that way. "

" 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. "

" At its core, 'Spring Awakening' is about the perils of miscommunication and what happens when people are denied a voice. "

" I was lucky enough to make my Broadway debut in 'Big River.' "

" I love Disney. "

" 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. "

" I created my family with the people I met in the theater and escaped in the stories I told and the characters I got a chance to play. It's just always felt like home. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I really enjoy 'The Beauty Is' from 'Light in the Piazza.' "

" 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. "

" Say you have a young black kid, and you come to see a Sondheim show. You love the material, but you look on stage, and you don't see anyone who looks like you. That puts a barrier between the audience and what they're trying to absorb. "

" I remember sitting at home in West Texas listening to my 'Songs for a New World' CD over and over. "

" A lot of times, comedy writers will go for the gay joke, and I've been vocal about saying, 'Go for the smart joke.' "

" My dream would be to have 50 people in a show with each person from a different country. "

" 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. "

" Unless we build theater and performing arts, then we're not going to be creating future patrons. We need to make it accessible. "

" 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. "

" You can't ever go back; life is incredibly short and fragile. "

" Magic in plays and musicals, I think, is more often created because of the work of an incredible company rather than a single component. "

" I'm interested in people's relationship to objects, so I think a lot of my work is very tactile. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Kelli O'Hara is incredible. "