Im always interested in working with people who are good team players - that are selfless that way in their interests and dedication to the project.

I don't want to be in an art bubble.

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

The idea of making audiences feel like they matter, that the theatre matters, and that they're a partner in the event—that's what fuels me as a director . . . I believe it's actually radical to think about the audience.