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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. "
Michael Arden
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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. "
Michael Arden
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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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" 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. "
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" Kelli O'Hara is incredible. "
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" I think all my favorite directors have acted. They understand how an actor thinks. "
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" I'm interested in people's relationship to objects, so I think a lot of my work is very tactile. "
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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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" Before working with Deaf West, I had never met a deaf person, and now I can't imagine life without ASL. "
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" I want to create an environment that actors can be really free in. "
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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. "
Michael Arden
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Growing
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" I think Rafael Nadal is pretty spectacular. I have a feeling he might be part animal. "
Michael Arden
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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. "
Michael Arden
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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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" 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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" I really enjoy 'The Beauty Is' from 'Light in the Piazza.' "
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Beauty
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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. "
Michael Arden
Looking
Open
Different
" 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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" Sometimes, disaster can inspire ingenuity. "
Michael Arden
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Sometimes
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" 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. "
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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. "
Michael Arden
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" I often think about what love can inspire in the world, not just in the eyes of the object of your affection. "
Michael Arden
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World
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" I was lucky enough to make my Broadway debut in 'Big River.' "
Michael Arden
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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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Men
" 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. "
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" Every decision you make has a consequence. "
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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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" There is no distinction, no echelon of actors within a company. A company is only as strong as its weakest link. "
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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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" 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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" If you've never heard a piece of Mozart, then Mozart could sound scary or confusing, so it's all about learning. "
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