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" I have a major love for musical theatre, including a lot of stuff I don't get to do very often. "

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" I loved working on 'Dogfight,' but when I first read it and wrapped my head around the story, I was a little horrified. "

" I remember getting notified that I won an award, and I gloated up a storm to my mother, and I was so obnoxious about it, but I said to her, 'Momma, I'm going to enjoy every moment of this because tomorrow, something bad is going to happen.' "

" Being called ugly every day is not easy on the psyche. "

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" It's been a huge honor to collaborate and create new theatre with new writers and to create theatre that will last after my lifetime. It's been in the most truthful way possible. It's my favorite thing to do. "

" 'Dogfight' was everything wonderful and terrifying about a show, and I feel it 1,000% gave me the knowledge and the confidence that I could do this. I can step up and be present enough to command scenes with amazing actors. "

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" I loved 'The Wizard of Oz,' and I'm a huge Judy Garland fan, too. "

" I did 'The Sound of Music.' That was my first musical. "

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" The first time I didn't get called back at an audition, I cried. My mom told me, 'We're doing this for fun, and if it's not fun anymore, we're not going to do it. So if you ever cry again, we're going to stop.' I never cried from then on, and I kept that lesson for the rest of my life. "

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" I'm a Mexican girl from California, and I never grew up thinking I could be in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. I didn't really see myself in that. Not that I didn't grow up loving Rodgers and Hammerstein, but I don't know - I just never put myself there. "