The play I did on Broadway a couple of seasons ago started out of town and it moved its way into New York because of the experience that we had out of town.

We just have to have visibility. We have to have acknowledgement. We have to have accountability to how we treat one another.

Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.

Every time I get on an airplane I have a routine. I cover the inside of my nostrils with anti-bacterial ointment. I'm popping Zicam like it's candy. And I drink, literally, from L.A. to New York, six bottles of water.

Maybe it's because it's connected to my childhood, or it's connected to the origins of what drove me creatively, but I feel like my life never makes more sense than when I'm in that process.

We're living in an increasingly nationalistic, xenophobic time, and you can see it reflected in societies all over the world.

We did monologues and scenes, and New York I did a scene from Amadeus and a monologue from Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead by Eric Bogosian, and then in L.A. I switched the scene to This is Our Youth and did the same monologue. I was spiky-haired, super skinny. A lot of people were like, "You should come here and do a sitcom." That was the feedback that I got. Obviously it was quite a different journey than the one I've actually had, but I just listened to people.