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" We don't ever realize how precious life is while we're living it. "
Michael Arden
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" At its core, 'Spring Awakening' is about the perils of miscommunication and what happens when people are denied a voice. "
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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. "
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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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" Helping to open up the conversation about inclusion and diversity in casting has been a dream come true. "
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" I want to create an environment that actors can be really free in. "
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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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" 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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" I really enjoy 'The Beauty Is' from 'Light in the Piazza.' "
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" My grandparents, Jim and Pat Moore, were an incredible couple. They drove me to the community theater, where I did plays as a kid. "
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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 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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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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" I think Rafael Nadal is pretty spectacular. I have a feeling he might be part animal. "
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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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" 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'm interested in people's relationship to objects, so I think a lot of my work is very tactile. "
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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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" 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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