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The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

#172 // Patrick Vassel // Hamilton's Associate & Supervising Director // Part One

The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

Gillian Pensavalle

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4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Patrick Vassel, Hamilton's Associate & Supervising Director, stops by for an extremely deep dive into how Hamilton runs smoothly as it continues to expand all over the world. In his first episode PDV talks about how he landed this badass job, explains how he does it, and shows all the love for director Thomas Kail.

Paul Tazewell's 2016 Tony Acceptance Speech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD_6MdscV1E

Patrick Vassel (Assoc. Director, Hamilton) Graduation Speech Notre Dame PolSci, Commencement 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ_jhr15yjs

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Stage and Stages Lin Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamilcast.

0:05.1

Butts and cuts and,

0:06.1

boots and cuts and... Hello everybody welcome back to the

0:20.0

back to the Hamel cast I am Jillian today I am here with Patrick Vassal hi

0:25.0

Patrick Vassal you are the associate and supervising director of Hamilton that is

0:30.0

correct which means you're working with all companies all the companies except London

0:35.0

okay London is the only one that's sort of on its own islands literally and

0:39.3

figuratively yes yes I was going to say yes I'm going to say yes it is an ocean away. Yes, it is.

0:43.0

Thank you so much for being here.

0:45.0

Thank you so much for having me.

0:46.0

I'm so excited.

0:47.0

This happened really fast kind of.

0:49.0

It started on your birthday.

0:50.0

It did.

0:51.0

Which I didn't know was your birthday. It was a whole thing.

0:53.7

So what happened was that I, Scott Wasserman, one of Scott Wasserman's

0:57.7

episodes came out and he had called you out during that episode and said look I

1:01.6

know you're the busiest person ever but like you can you can during that So kind of like a jerk move like quoted him in that and tagged you at it on Twitter like looking back on it. I'm like what was I thinking? But I happened to do that on your birthday.

1:18.8

It was the best birthday gift, honestly. It was the best. And now here we are.

1:23.0

And now you're here.

1:24.0

So thank you so so much.

1:26.0

There's a cocktail here.

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