Conrad Ricamora

07/27/20 • 78 min

Conrad Ricamora joins me on Zoom to chat about his unlikely undergraduate education, a lesson he took away from his time playing sports, the importance of opening doors for himself, his crazy exciting audition for HERE LIES LOVE, the magical night that I was in audience for RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN'S THE KING AND I at Lincoln Center Theater, as well as crafting his most recent on-stage role in SOFT POWER and his extraordinary collaboration with Leigh Silverman, David Henry Hwang, and Jeanine Tesori.

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