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

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

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

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