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As a kid growing up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, all I wanted to do was be on Broadway in a musical. 'Spring Awakening' kind of answered all of my questions and fulfilled all of my dreams - beyond my wildest dreams.
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My first film that I got right after 'Spring Awakening' was called 'Taking Woodstock,' and Ang Lee was the director.
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I loved traditional musical comedy. That was my passion. Then 'Spring Awakening' happened, and it took that rock n' roll and pop music to change gears for me.
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When I moved to New York, I wanted to be in the ensemble of 'Hairspray.' That was my goal.
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I haven't had anyone say, 'No, we can't because he's gay.' In fact, it's been quite the opposite.
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Ultimately, we're actors: I'm putting on a costume, so we're playing pretend.
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We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest.
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Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.
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In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film, it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act, and you're in the audience.
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I taught a class about the Tony Awards at a summer theater camp the year after I graduated from high school. So, the first time I was nominated for 'Spring Awakening,' it felt like a surreal dream: it was every childhood dream I had come true. It felt like a fairy tale.
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I think the first Broadway show that I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' and that was in 5th or 6th grade. Our school would take bus trips up to see shows, and so it was on one of their bus trips that I got to see 'Beauty and the Beast.'
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It's daunting, taking on the task of representing the gay community, because there are so many different facets and different schools of thought and behavior.
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I feel like, with a television show, you're always biting your nails hoping you're going to get that next season.
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I love interacting with an audience. I love just being myself in front of a crowd.
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I wanted to work with Michael Mayer because I'd seen 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' six times.
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When you get to really involve yourself with a piece and the other people, and you get to feel like it's a community and you're all building something together, it helps me to produce better work, I think.
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I'd rather be a working actor and not hiding anything in my personal life.
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I did 'How to Succeed in Business... ,' 'Kiss Me Kate,' 'Godspell,' and 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown' in high school, all of which were fun.
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I feel like certainly there are people expecting 'Looking' to be representative of everyone that's gay, the entire gay community. And it's a dangerous expectation to come in watching the show expecting that. Expecting that out of any show.
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'Looking' is more than just a television show. It's contributing to the cultural conversation, and for me, those are the most exciting projects to be a part of.
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I'm very selective about television because you sign away so much of your life to it.
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I'd moved to New York to pursue a career in theatre, and it's very practical how you do it - I just went to every open call going.
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When I was doing 'Spring Awakening' the first couple of years I was living in New York, I was gay, and I was living with my 'roommate,' who was my boyfriend but was my roommate to everyone else.
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I did 'Spring Awakening' on Broadway for about three years, and I did over 500 performances.
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I got cast for 'Spring Awakening' when I was 20. Every dream I had came true in that moment.
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In the first year in New York, I went to this amazing teacher named Jen Waldman. She does lots of different classes, but one of her classes was where you went and worked on a song. And suddenly I felt like an artist again, and because I had worked the whole song, when I went into the audition room, I could connect to something in the 16 bars.
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The difference between being in the closet and out of the closet as a gay man is such a huge shift. I feel so connected still to that 22-year-old, but the idea that I was not open with that part of my life - which I am now so open about - is sort of surreal.
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I think about 'Will & Grace,' and I think about 'Modern Family,' and the way that being gay has become sort of middle America... in the way that they show gay people in their specific way.
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Even the first suitcase-off-the-train moment, it's easy to be discouraged, frustrated, annoyed, angry. Because you're waiting in freezing weather outside of an open call, and you're like, 'This moment of me right now is not the joy I felt when I was doing J. Pierrepont Finch in 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying' in high school.'
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People create from different places. Some love to create from a tortured place, some from a joyful place. And when I feel like I'm a 5-year-old kid in my backyard playing pretend, that's when I'm happiest.
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After 'Spring Awakening,' I wanted to do things that are really challenging and outside my comfort zone: things that scare me a little and make me grow.
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I was definitely planning to go to college, but I deferred my admission to Carnegie Mellon to be in a non-equity tour of 'The Sound of Music.' But I made very little money in the tour, and college is really expensive, and I thought I'd never be able to pay off those loans.
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There's kind of a gift in being gay because, if you come out, you're forced to express yourself.
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I went to a local high school in Lancaster. Not much I can say about it; it was pretty much your typical public high school back in Pennsylvania.
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If I've had roadblocks along the way for being gay, I'm not aware of them.
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I was playing this character, Melchior Gabor, who was a rebel and who was a person who didn't let the world define him, and who stood up to authority and was this kind of revolutionary... And when I left 'Spring Awakening,' I came out of that experience feeling like... I had cultivated this side of my personality that hadn't existed before.
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