I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

I love De la Renta. I love CoSTUME National; I think they're just incredible. And I love Marc Jacobs, too - they're also great, just a great brand.

I loved Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Its about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.

I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something and then when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.

In performance, you dont always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.

If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.