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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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every decision you make has a consequence. "

" I love Disney. "

" Sometimes, disaster can inspire ingenuity. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 read 'Huffington Post' as if I am a shareholder. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Kelli O'Hara is incredible. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" You can't ever go back; life is incredibly short and fragile. "

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

" 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. "