Emily Walton was born into a family of theater people and never questioned her destiny as she began performing professionally as a teenager. She discusses the unique paradox of receiving all the benefits of joining the family business along with the surprising limits to self-investigation when so much of the future seemed to be predetermined.

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Carla Duren and Bobby played opposite each other in the Broadway revival of 110 in the Shade. Twenty years later, they are both working with artists in healing professions, while Carla's wisdom grows out of a lifelong search for spiritual meaning that begin with organized religion, and emerges today as a deeply personal relationship to the mystery of life.

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Patrick Stafford is an actor who has been navigating a serious kidney disease for most of his life. This month, he underwent a second life-saving kidney transplant. He discusses how an early relationship to his mortality affected his life and his creativity, and what it is like to live in a world where most people are in denial about the fragility of life that he has become intimate with.

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Adam Gwon is a composer and lyricist whose work explores the tension in the human condition between solitude and connection. It is his own introversion that fostered the space for him to discover his authentic voice, while it is also a tool for connection that shares the meaning of his most deeply held experiences.

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Michele Pawk is a Broadway star who is disarmingly down-to-earth and as generous as she is talented. She opens up about a long a varied career on Broadway, and how her inner critic has evolved from paralyzing during particularly difficult transitions to a trusted ally in her quest to remain open and authentic in her work and life.

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Host Bobby Steggert takes another step back from interviewing to reflect on the phenomenon of polarization - from the current political climate, to the contradictory forces in every human experience.

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Jenni Barber (Beetlejuice) comes from a family lineage of caretaking, and it is infused in every role she plays, from cast member, to teacher and mentor, to wife and mother. Jenni explores the profound connectivity, as well as the risk to a loss of self in the role of caretaker, and how she is learning to balance it with age and wisdom.

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Tyler Joseph Ellis (Shucked) has honed a lifelong gift of observing the world around him into a talent that both honors and finds humor in the beautiful absurdity of the theater. Driven by a deep love for the art form, he has followed his enthusiasm down a variety of paths - from actor to writer to host and comedian. He shows that keen observation of humanity is at the core of his unique artistic resonance.

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Jay Armstrong Johnson is a Broadway fixture whose success is the result of uncompromising dedication to his work - but his choice of becoming an artist wasn't always easy. Jay explores the complexities around selfishness, when choosing his own path sometimes meant that family felt abandoned by his wider pursuits.

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Ben Levi Ross (Ragtime at LCT) and Bobby share the distinction of playing Mother's Younger Brother a generation apart. They share how different upbringings in different eras contributed to their interpretation of the character. Ben's history of nonconformity to norms and expectations contrasts with Bobby's history of conformity, while both experiences offer a fascinating entry point into the psychology of a young man radicalized by period of great social change.

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