“I think my favorite messages of all time are the people who say they didn't like musical theater or didn't get it and listening to my version made them understand the song for the first time, made them want to know more about Sondheim. If I can be your gateway into him, I've done my job.”

“Begin doing whatever you’re inspired to do and don’t wait to be accepted into a school or to have a degree or an internship. Reach out to people that you admire and ask them a question or try to recreate the thing that inspired you.”

“We realized pretty quickly children are like adults. They’re there to have fun, and we just provide them with the avenue for that.”

“Dominguez took a "non-conventional route" to kickstart his career. A creative but lost teenager, he dropped out of high school at 16. But his life changed when crew members from a small production company started frequenting a Mexican restaurant his father managed in Van Nuys.”

“Trans people are not monoliths. We are our own existences and our own bodies and our own human beings. We are capable of doing whatever we want. Trans people are in this industry and deserve to have space in this industry.”

“Research is always an enormous part of my process. It’s really what fuels the design. I go in with an open slate and let the research send me down rabbit holes.”

“He’s tackled Broadway, movies and TV…so what’s next for Kevin Chamberlin? The answer is TikTok. Over quarantine, Chamberlin posted his first video to the popular social media app and has since amassed over six million followers. In June, Chamberlin posted his most ambitious TikTok to date, an original song and music video called “I Wanna Be in a Marvel Movie.””

“Our philosophy is that the music couldn't exist without the lyrics nor the lyrics without the music, so we like to share credit for both music and lyrics because that's how our collaboration functions.”

“I like many others, watched "Ratatouille" back in January with no knowledge of the TikTok movement that sparked it or the unique and incredibly fast production timeline. Now, with the Emmys coming up this fall, I wanted to learn more about how this show came about, so I spoke with members of the creative team about their process and how a one-minute video became a two-million-dollar viral sensation.”

“I hope we're moving towards a future where the idea of theater isn't only a place to deal only with societal problems and that problem is your race or religion.”

Since 2016, performer Ilana Levine has been interviewing actors, writers, directors and professional creatives on her podcast “Little Known Facts,” which she previously described to OnStage Blog as “the most inclusive, personal conversations that [are] meant to share artists in an uncensored, unpackaged way.” 200-plus “LNF” episodes later, Levine has a new podcast project. “And The Award Goes To…” tracks the career of Tony-winning guests using their acceptance speeches as an entryway. “Many of them have not listened to their speech since they made it,” Levine explained in an email, “It's a thrill to listen to it together and ask them to take me through all that led up to that night.’

“We want to live in a world where we don't see color. But we all see color. How that manifests in theater is that, a lot of times, people with good intentions want to non-traditionally or color-blind cast something because they think it doesn't matter to the show. But the truth is, sometimes it matters. It's not just about coloring up your show but being aware of the potential effect it will have on the audience and thinking about how that affects the storytelling.”

“Zachary Harris Martin has been an actor for almost all his life. The Canadian performer grew up doing theater in his native Toronto and later studied at Sarah Lawrence College. Since graduation, he’s worked steadily, performing in Off-Broadway shows, regional musicals, summer stock productions and staged readings. With “Hazing U: A Modern Greek Tragedy” Martin has added a new column to his resume: playwright.”

Collaboration is the foundation of all theater-making, but how does it work when that collaboration extends far beyond the proscenium? For lighting designer Ben Stanton and video projection designer Lucy Mackinnon, their partnership started while working together on a regional show in Washington, DC. The two have also been married for five years and are parents to two young children. While they worked separately on many projects, two both say they always work best when working together.

What started as a short job for a then-21-year-old Michael Feinstein, to label and log decades of sheet music and records for Ira Gershwin, turned into a life’s work he still continues today through The Great American Songbook Foundation, a group he founded in 2007. Housed in Indiana, the Foundation includes an in-house library of artifacts, sheet music and recordings, as well as running multiple educational programs and concerts.