BACKSTAGE with Theatre Choreographer Sam Pinkleton

Curious, joyful, easily distracted, relentless, rambunctious, committed to the absurd, jumpy, pokey, lowbrow, probably exhausting.

Bringing people together.

Don't be an asshole. Write thank you notes. LISTEN. Ask questions all along the way.

No great work comes solely from you, it comes from the space you've created between you and your collaborators, or you and your audience. 

Know your power + use it relentlessly to create joy + ACTUAL opportunity for others, particularly those who do not have a seat at whatever table you happen to find yourself.

Asking people to have a nice time is an incredibly high-stakes ask. 

Never forget that - fundamentally - you make singing and dancing happen AS YOUR JOB and that is a complete, ridiculous, dizzy joy that could disappear at any moment.

In work + life, I try to spend time with people who are a lot smarter than me, who have entirely different lived experiences, who grew up different places, who have different ridiculous stories from childhood, who don't look or sound anything like me, who are experts on things that i know one or zero things about, who are much much older or much much younger than me. 

And right now, don't think for a second you're going to have an interaction with me that won't begin and end with questions + accountability about voting.

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