I am the CEO and co-founder of Purpose - a social movement incubator and agency. We work on ways to help millions of people combine their power as citizens, consumers and cultural agents.
The Tonys are the once-a-year shot for all of these shows and artists who work so diligently every single performance but only for a thousand or so people at a time. This gives them the opportunity to perform to millions of people.
For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.
I love taking an idea... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use.
If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
I don't feel like millions of people are wrong because they love who they love or they were born how they were born.
The perseverance and the strength and the determination and the sacrifice that so many millions of people have had to endure to form this country is far greater than anything that we can really imagine.
Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.