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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Every decision you make has a consequence. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Kelli O'Hara is incredible. "

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

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

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

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

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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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