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

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" 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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" My grandparents, Jim and Pat Moore, were an incredible couple. They drove me to the community theater, where I did plays as a kid. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

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

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

" I read 'Huffington Post' as if I am a shareholder. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I want to create an environment that actors can be really free in. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I love Disney. "

" 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. "