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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. "

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

Michael Arden

Creating

Arts

Future

" Before working with Deaf West, I had never met a deaf person, and now I can't imagine life without ASL. "

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

" 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. "

" Every decision you make has a consequence. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Kelli O'Hara is incredible. "

Michael Arden

Incredible

" 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. "

" 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. "

" At its core, 'Spring Awakening' is about the perils of miscommunication and what happens when people are denied a voice. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

Michael Arden

Gay

Men

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

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

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

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

" 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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

Michael Arden

Community

Grandparents