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Michael Arden
American
Actor
Born:
Oct 6
,
1982
Actor
Love
People
Think
Together
You
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Haiti is a proud nation, rich in heritage and spirituality. How they have been able to not only survive but thrive is a testament to how the Haitian people have come together to rebuild, create new families, and care for one another.
Michael Arden
Together
People
Care
Spirituality
Thrive
Nation
Rich
Rebuild
Heritage
Able
Only
New
Haiti
Come
Haitian
Another
Proud
How
Testament
Been
Families
Survive
Create
We don't ever realize how precious life is while we're living it.
Michael Arden
Life
Living
How
Precious
Precious Life
While
Realize
Ever
Sometimes, disaster can inspire ingenuity.
Michael Arden
Sometimes
Inspire
Disaster
Ingenuity
Unless we build theater and performing arts, then we're not going to be creating future patrons. We need to make it accessible.
Michael Arden
Future
Build
Unless
Performing
Performing Arts
Make
Accessible
Going
Arts
Theater
Then
Creating
Need
My grandparents, Jim and Pat Moore, were an incredible couple. They drove me to the community theater, where I did plays as a kid.
Michael Arden
Me
Community
Incredible
Jim
Kid
Moore
Drove
Couple
Were
Pat
Did
Where
Theater
Grandparents
Plays
Helping to open up the conversation about inclusion and diversity in casting has been a dream come true.
Michael Arden
Conversation
Diversity
Has-Been
Dream
About
Casting
Open
True
Come
Been
Up
Helping
Inclusion
The love I have for my husband is intertwined with his, and we are two individuals looking in the same direction - as opposed to staring in each other's eyes all the time.
Michael Arden
Love
Time
Eyes
Husband
Looking
Intertwined
Other
Direction
Individuals
Opposed
His
Same
Same Direction
Each
Staring
Two
I often think about what love can inspire in the world, not just in the eyes of the object of your affection.
Michael Arden
Love
Eyes
World
Inspire
Affection
Think
Object
About
Often
Just
Your
I found that the same things I loved about performing were the things I liked about directing and creating a piece - striking a chord that was in tune with the world and was reflecting back what I saw, just from a different angle.
Michael Arden
World
Back
Saw
Striking
About
Angle
Directing
Performing
Liked
Piece
Were
Reflecting
Same
Just
Same Things
Different
Loved
Tune
Creating
Chord
Found
Things
I've played gay, and I've played straight... I'm proud to be a gay man myself, and I'm thrilled to get the opportunity to play a variety of different gay men.
Michael Arden
Myself
Gay
Man
Opportunity
Men
Thrilled
Variety
Proud
Get
Different
Straight
Play
Played
I really enjoy 'The Beauty Is' from 'Light in the Piazza.'
Michael Arden
Light
Beauty
Enjoy
Really
I think Rafael Nadal is pretty spectacular. I have a feeling he might be part animal.
Michael Arden
Animal
Feeling
Think
Pretty
He
Part
Might
Spectacular
I created my family with the people I met in the theater and escaped in the stories I told and the characters I got a chance to play. It's just always felt like home.
Michael Arden
Home
Family
People
Met
Characters
Like
Felt
Always
Got
Escaped
Just
Stories
Theater
Created
Play
Chance
I'm interested in people's relationship to objects, so I think a lot of my work is very tactile.
Michael Arden
Work
Relationship
People
Think
Objects
Tactile
Lot
Very
Interested
Magic in plays and musicals, I think, is more often created because of the work of an incredible company rather than a single component.
Michael Arden
Work
Single
Think
Incredible
Musicals
Component
Magic
Rather
More
Because
Than
Often
Created
Company
Plays
There is no distinction, no echelon of actors within a company. A company is only as strong as its weakest link.
Michael Arden
Strong
Distinction
Weakest
Weakest Link
Only
Within
Link
Company
Actor
I had taken a directing class in high school. Looking back on it now, I think it was all heading that way.
Michael Arden
Class
School
Looking
Looking Back
Think
Back
Way
High
High School
Directing
Had
Taken
Heading
Now
I love Disney.
Michael Arden
Love
Disney
Growing up as a gay boy in West Texas, I definitely felt like a bit of an outcast sometimes - that there was a world that I would never be a part of.
Michael Arden
Gay
World
Sometimes
Bit
Definitely
Outcast
Would
Never
Part
Like
Felt
Boy
West
Texas
Up
Growing
Growing Up
My favorite collaborator is Dane Laffrey, who designed the set for 'Once on This Island,' but we've worked together since high school, when he was my roommate.
Michael Arden
Together
School
Once
Collaborator
Favorite
High
High School
He
Since
Island
Worked
Who
Designed
Set
The protest that we go to or the time that we stand up for someone or do the right thing - despite its difficulty... We might not see the return of it, but who knows whose lives we can change by doing those things.
Michael Arden
Time
Do The Right Thing
Change
Difficulty
Despite
Right Thing
Those
See
Someone
Return
Knows
Protest
Doing
Go
Up
The Right Thing
Might
Stand
Stand Up
Who
Whose
Lives
Right
Thing
Things
I would love to create a piece of theater that is devised by a company of actors and creators that I'd put together, and I'd love for it to be nonverbal so it's something that someone with any communication ability can enjoy.
Michael Arden
Love
Together
Communication
Enjoy
Would
Ability
Someone
Something
Put
Piece
Nonverbal
Any
Theater
Create
Company
Creators
Actor
It's my goal to help actors achieve their best work, and I think I speak the same language as actors, so I understand how they do it, and I just love being able to create the playground in which they build their beautiful sandcastle.
Michael Arden
Work
Love
Beautiful
Best
Speak
Achieve
Language
Build
Think
Able
Best Work
Understand
How
Goal
Same
Just
Being
Which
Create
Help
Actor
Playground
The most exciting thing I've seen is directors not only being open to actors coming in the room with different abilities but actively looking at ways that the story can be enlarged with disabled actors.
Michael Arden
Seen
Looking
Ways
Ability
Only
Directors
Disabled
Open
Exciting
Most
Coming
Being
Different
Story
Room
Actively
Actor
Thing
We learn the most from listening, and I don't just mean with our ears.
Michael Arden
Listening
Our
Ears
Most
Learn
Just
Mean
Before working with Deaf West, I had never met a deaf person, and now I can't imagine life without ASL.
Michael Arden
Life
Met
Before
Never
Had
Deaf
Without
West
Person
Working
Now
Imagine
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