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Hello everyone, I'm Jillian. Welcome back to The Hamilkast.

This week, I'm finishing up my chat with Ashley Delarosa. She plays Peggy Moriah on Hamilton's

and Peggy Tour. Last week, she revealed her many Hamilton connections, told us about her audition

process, talked about what it was like to be part of the voice back in season two,

you know, stuff like hanging out at Christina Aguilera's house and singing on live TV the

night of her senior prom. So yeah, if you missed all that, definitely start there. But if you're

all caught up, we'll pick up right where we left off. Here's the rest of my chat with Ashley.

You stay on your website that you're passionate about politics and the environment and expanding

diversity and representation in theater. I would love to talk to you about that before we dive

more into your Peggy and Moriah and your Hamilton experience, just because I think it's an important

thing to have at the forefront, any like your activism, anything you want to, I don't know,

share with us or direct our attention to. Yes. Like the floor is yours, Ashley.

Totally. Thank you. I would love to. I think it's so important, I think, at the in May,

with the murder of George Floyd and kind of the first peak during this pandemic for the fight

and liberation of all black lives. Theater in my industry started to fall under a lot of scrutiny,

and I think it was because for the first time as an actor of color, as actors of color,

we felt emboldened by what was going on to speak out, whereas normally in schools do this too,

whether you're in programs, and I think it's a reflection of society as a whole. They kind of have

this, we have this sort of, everyone's a replaceable mentality and especially in theater and film

in TV. There are a thousand other people in line behind you and a thousand people before you,

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