“When I went to grad school I wrote a paper about how I feel blackface affected how we view us on stage through naturalism. The Chitlin...

"Kinky [Boots] is a show I’ll never be sick of. I use it as my therapy. Whether it’s family issues, life, whatever it is, I get to put my...

“In the best of worlds, as actors, we should be able to do whatever roles we’re right for—at base—in a perfect world. It’s not a perfect...

“It’s so hard to communicate the words now of that feeling of having nothing. I had nothing else. And knowing this is what you want so...

“Unfortunately if the creative team is all-white, you see yourself first, and being a minority in any type of setting, you are taught to...

“Theatre, like Hollywood, are working so far behind trend. The movie that we’re watching this summer was filmed two years ago. The...

“You have to chip away at it. [It’s] creating our own work, but that’s easier said than done. It’s not as easy as people think it is. If...

“A lot of times people want to see the change but they don’t want to have to sacrifice or challenge themselves to get there. So in the...

“I remember a time there were no black shows…[you would see] one of us. A lot of times it was one female, sometimes it would be a couple...

“This idea that you must be a master of one thing and the best at one thing denies yourself. If you’ve been gifted in multiple ways, [you...

"A big part of my identity as a dancer and as an artist is Russian. Like some of [my Russian ballet classmates] came over to take class...

“I’m not an American black person per say…my parents aren’t from here…and you end up having a different upbringing. I grew up in the...

“A lot of times I feel like the creative team wants to say ‘Let it not be said that we didn’t see anyone of color, we just cast this...

“I’ll never forget Miss Molinka; I was standing at the ballet barre and she told me, ‘You’ll never be a ballerina.’ She said, ‘You don’t...

“In the past I wasn’t always made aware of the weight I had on my shoulders as far as being a man of color in musical theatre. It wasn’t...

“Black people are really trendy right now. Black is trendy. In two days, it could not be.” We sit down with Tony nominee Adrienne Warren...

“The Hamilton Effect is like what Shonda Rhimes is doing on TV. People are hungry for different stories and different colors telling...