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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. "

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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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I love Disney. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Helping to open up the conversation about inclusion and diversity in casting has been a dream come true. "

" 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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" 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. "

" I really enjoy 'The Beauty Is' from 'Light in the Piazza.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I remember sitting at home in West Texas listening to my 'Songs for a New World' CD over and over. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Every decision you make has a consequence. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "