A lot of times I play the villain or the comic relief, and I get to kind of play the comic relief to a degree, which is fun, but I also get to say, "You are created in the image in God. You are a perfect child of God. And this part of you is the heart of who you are. You're not alone, and you're okay just the way you are."

I had been wanting to do a musical for a really long time. I wanted people in New York to know that I can sing.

I really love being a character actor.

I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.

It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again - every night. Sometimes it lands beautifully, and sometimes it lands just beside of it. It's like throwing a horseshoe. It's great fun.

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

There was a male sketch group in my college. I was like why isn't there a female sketch group? So then I started doing sketch comedy and all that stuff. It just happened.