Interviews and voices
Local interviews from GoPride's conversations with artists, creators and community voices.
Aurora Adachi-Winter
“Empathy in this world right now is crucial to maintaining our humanity and being able to reach across to people who think differently than we do.”
Daniel Kyri
“It's so easy to get caught up in the epicness of Hamlet, but I wanted to pay attention to his humanity - however flawed it is”
Brooke Lynn Hytes
“There are way more drag queens than when I started doing drag so I can’t imagine what the competition is like now.”
Aaron Kaburick
“I can trust that I can just show up and be an honest actor and deliver their material”
Vince Kelley
“We like to say it's as if the show never went off the air; it just moved from cable to streaming”
Matt Rodin
“I grew up being awoken by my mother every morning singing show tunes.”
Mitchell Fain
“I play 20 different people, and, with very few exceptions, we don't have any props or costumes to let you know that we simply have to morph into them and tell that story”
Dan Darlington
“Summer in Chicago is probably one of the best places in the country.”
Steven Lee Johnson
“there's this incredible connection there; or they're introducing their spouse or child who never read the book, and they're able to experience it in this new way that we're giving them”
DJ Ed Wood
“My biggest inspiration has been DJ Nina Flowers. We are both from Puerto Rico.”
Cunio
“The show is happening above you, on top of you, next to you, behind you, below you and it never stops.”
Isaiah Grass
“Many things that we took for granted before this pandemic, seem so much more special now.”
E'mon Lauren Black
“It teaches that Black women are not a monolith, and that Black experiences are not all the same”
Elaine Dame
“Making music has meditative and restorative qualities for me, hopefully for the audience as well.”
Matthew-Lee Erlbach
“Part of my work is making the invisible, visible. It is giving a voice to the voiceless. It's going to where the silence is.”
Rob Lindley
“what I was most struck with in seeing it - and maybe it is the filter we are all seeing art in in this time we are living in - I really find it a show about empathy and compassion”
Elaine Dame
“70's music is rich melodically, harmonically and rhythmically, which lends itself well to a jazz interpretation.”
Jamal Howard
“it is really about finding that space and coming up with creative solutions”
Bobby Bowman
“Chicago's Bobby Bowman on the remarkable story of Oslo”
David Cromer
“I hope this interview about my terror will inspire people to come see the show”
Stache
“basically nothing is off limits for us due to everyone's musicianship and talent level”
Denis Grindel
“I like that this show redefines that there's no typical type of what a guy should be or what he shouldn't be, and that's been amazing.”
Ian Liberto
“It's such a deep community, the Broadway community, the inclusion and understanding runs so deep.”
Kevin Nietzel
“It's nice, because everyone's like, "Yeah, and what else?"”