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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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" My favorite collaborator is Dane Laffrey, who designed the set for 'Once on This Island,' but we've worked together since high school, when he was my roommate. "

Michael Arden

Island

Together

School

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" There is no distinction, no echelon of actors within a company. A company is only as strong as its weakest link. "

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

" 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. "

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

Michael Arden

Will

Saying

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

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

" 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. "

" I tend to ask more questions than I should as an actor. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes, disaster can inspire ingenuity. "

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

" 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 had a sort of rocky upbringing, and I think the theater was a safe place for me. "

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

" I think all my favorite directors have acted. They understand how an actor thinks. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" We don't ever realize how precious life is while we're living it. "

" 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. "

Michael Arden

Together

Looking

" 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. "

" Every decision you make has a consequence. "

" When you step off a plane into a place like Haiti, you're just surrounded by overwhelming stimulus: the people selling you things, asking you to engage. "

Michael Arden

You

People

" I often think about what love can inspire in the world, not just in the eyes of the object of your affection. "